Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Shadow Play 2
This was a happy little accident I discovered as I was shooting some found objects in direct sunlight. I was working on a Nexus Church project based on the creation story. I wanted to place small natural items like leaves, sticks, plants and rocks on a white canvas and take photos of them. I was planning on using the photos as background for text slides in a PowerPoint presentation. As I was shooting I discovered that the shadows being cast by the plants on the canvas were much more interesting then the plants themselves. So I picked up the canvas and started taking shadow photos of all kinds of vegetation. I dragged the jpeg files of the shadows into Photoshop and did some simple color manipulation. I think the results are pretty cool you can see the rest of the photo series here.
