Stacked!

[Mike Buckley]

Ha! I fooled all of you who thought this was going to be a photo of a particular part of the human female anatomy.

WARNING: People who live in areas prone to earthquakes should not try making these or similar photographs.

[Marie Hass]

Nice, Mike.

I like the particularly silken smooth look of these glasses - almost as if I were to touch them, they would feel "oily" - frictionless. I also like the repeating patterns of the reflections.

Marie

[Brownbear]

Amazing! The patterns of the reflections are truly mesmerizing!

[chauncey]

No skinny Barbie Doll look here.
It is quite an interesting picture...wonder what it would look like in color, with maybe different colors of light and different layouts of the glasses. Endless possibilities!

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, everyone!

Marie: The characteristic that you mentioned is typical in my mind of the bright-field style of photographing clear glass. That's one of the reasons I like the style so much.

Chauncey: Your idea of using colors would be good if I was good at designing good color schemes (I'm not) and if I was willing (I'm not) to try long enough while risking that the stack would fall down, thus rendering the wrath of my wife upon me. You mentioned endless possibilities, which reminds me that the consequences that my wife would throw at me would indeed be endless.

[Mike Buckley]

I added a second photo to the first post in the thread. Unlike the first photo, the second photo is made completely in color.

[Shadowman]

I thought you were going to display your image stacking skills, but now that you mentioned what was really on your mind when you titled this.....


Nicely done, 2nd image looks other worldly.

[Mike Buckley]

I thought you were going to display your image stacking skills, but now that you mentioned what was really on your mind when you titled this.....

Nice catch of my Freudian slip.

[FootLoose]

That 2nd shot reminds me of a bunch of angry aliens. When I first looked at #1 I was taken by the symmetry of the stems in the reflection, but after seeing #2 all I can see in the first one are cats' eyes.

I do like the look of the lighting in the 2nd shot for the reasons Marie has noted.

[Digital]

It kind of looks like a spinal column.


Bruce

[Mike Buckley]

I do like the look of the lighting in the 2nd shot for the reasons Marie has noted.

At the time she posted her message, the second shot had not been added to the thread. She was referring to the first image.

[Mike Buckley]

It kind of looks like a spinal column.

I suppose I should take that as a compliment.

[Digital]

I suppose I should take that as a compliment.

It is a compliment.

Bruce

[terrib]

Interesting. I really like the 2nd one. Partly because I just like the glass against the black. But the glasses are also fairly consistent all the way through the top, whereas in the first one the top glass seems to be a different shade. So in the first one I wish the top glass wasn't there at all leaving space at the top. Or that there was an opposing surface on top to mimic the reflection of the bottom - well, not really since it would be upside down. That would be fun to balance, wouldn't it!

Anyway, no such problems with the black version. I really like it.

[Mike Buckley]

Terri: Considering that you prefer the second one, it might interest you to know that I had no intention of making it at the outset. Shortly after I made the first one, I began rethinking it. That's a good thing because I also prefer the second one.

It's especially interesting to me that this is the first image of clear glass and a black background that I've made without changing it to a monochrome photo.

in the first one the top glass seems to be a different shade.

That's because of the vignette built into the lighting scheme; the background is slightly darker behind the second-to-top dish and darker yet behind the top dish.

Or that there was an opposing surface on top to mimic the reflection of the bottom - well, not really since it would be upside down. That would be fun to balance, wouldn't it!

I could position a mirror up there without having to balance it on the glass dishes...but won't.