MontyRPennington

Vintage Travel Shave Kit

Vintage Travel Shave Kit

This is a black and white composition of a early travel shave kit with Shaving Mug and Brush along with a bit of stashed vintage currency. ...
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This is a black and white composition of a early travel shave kit with Shaving Mug and Brush along with a bit of stashed vintage currency.
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camera

OLYMPUS E-5

settings

settings

Aperture f/16 ISO 100 Shutter 1/3 Focal Length 23/1

upload_date

upload_date

Feb, 2019

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86

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+11

Awards

Winner in Antiques Photo Challenge

Peer Award

+7

Top Choice

Magnificent Capture

Outstanding Creativity

Top Ranks

Top 30 rank week 2

Top 20 rank week 1

My first career was as a hairdresser at The Scuttle Mug :)

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So that's where you keep your money. ;-)

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Location

This image was set up and taken as a "still life" in my office.

Time

N/A

Lighting

Two Daylight balanced continuous light soft boxes where used to light this image.

Equipment

Image was caputured with an Olympus E-5, tripod mounted, with a Zuico lens at a focal length of 28 mm. Exposure was 0.6 sec at f/16 with ISO set to 100.

Inspiration

I created this image specifically for a photo challenge

Editing

The only post processing was cropping and converting to black and white.

In my camera bag

I am currently shooting with Olympus products.

Feedback

With Still life photography, take time to get the image that you want. Play with your lighting, it will be the key to an attractive final image.

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