Pots and Pans

Dinner was great but I decided to call in the Dashboard boys to help with the clean up...

Cool Monday.

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Caution Tech Stuff:

This came to me while trying to fall asleep last night and I haven't a clue why.

First I shot a clean pot to see if I liked the idea. I put my small Canon G10 right into the bottom of a large pot. This looks great so I added some leftover pasta into the pan and shoot again. I found that hand holding the camera and sliding it up the side of the pot was a touch better.

Against a white sheet with my snowmobile boots on, holding a shovel I shot myself followed by a brown bucket. I put up a little white shooting cocoon and shot each one of the dashboard boys.

The four pieces were knocked out from their backgrounds and added to the pot with the pasta. All the 4 pieces got resized and placed into positions.

All the 4 pieces have there own masks. I try never to cut things out but mask the parts I don't want so I can always go back and fix something like missing a finger or an ear. Never paint yourself into a corner.

To give the illusion of being in the pasta not on top requires another mask and that is done by making a group. Without disturbing the original mask I can add an additional mask to remove things I don't want like in this case feet. This makes it look like the pasta is in front of the feet and the players are down in. It's all an illusion.

Final touches are a couple of extra layers so we can add some drop shadows. A crop and a splash of sharpness to the pasta and we're done. 15 layers altogether and the delicious leftover pasta I had for breakfast. Yum, yum....