About the Image(s)

In this image I tried to respond to my own challenge, of making an interesting shot out of something small and mundane. I found a few colored rubber bands (what could be more mundane than a rubber band) so I used this as a subject for this challenge. As I often do, I shot this subject on black glass, so I had the reflections to add additional interest.

To generate this image, I used my tripod mounted Canon R5MII with a RF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens to collect a stack of 25 images (1/4 sec, f/8, ISO 800). In this case I used the in-camera stacking although I also tried using Helicon Focus to see it this would yield a better stack (it didn’t in this case).

As often occurs with many stacked images, the actual stack of the images right out of the camera had a lot of extra ‘stuff’ (fibers, hairs, dust, spectral highlights) which required some editing to remove (see the original stacked image). I then edited the image in photoshop to tone down the image some, to bring up the reflection and to add a more uniform background with a bit of gradient lighting.

See what you all think ...