I have been trying to make a background. This is my current try at it. I turned this a year or so ago. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did when I turned it. It's a birch burl form up north.
-Bushy
That must have been a lot of work. Beautiful!
Is the black line a crack, rotten wood or simply a different coloration. Whatever, it's beautiful.
Have your camera close to the bowl, have the background significantly further away, use the widest aperture you can for the shallowest depth of field, and still retain the bowl in focus.
Your background will disappear into bokeh and accentuate the bowl.
Choose an evenly coloured background.
The black in the wood is a powder acrylic powder that I fill the crack with and then it's just like the wood. You fill it in the crack and then you soak it with super glue and it solidifies in seconds. It comes in about 50 colors from white to blue to red and on down to black. I have used turquoise to criscola and sometimes I take some of the shavings and grind it up to a fine powder and fill the crack and then super glue it. I have been trying to setup a deep look to the photo to get the right depth of field but haven't got it right yet. I am working on it...
-Bushy
Very nice hollow-form but I don't think I would show the crack in the photo. Try to accentuate the beautiful figure of the burl.
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