Broken Glass Macro

[Mike Buckley]

This abstract was created using a small part of the stem that fell away from the rest of this broken wine glass as the subject. The captured scene including the negative space is only about 85% of the size of my APS-C sensor.

Setup
The background is translucent vellum lit from behind by a small continuous-light lamp.

[Wavelength]

Fine; a bit of inclination could have given more life?

[JBW]

totem pole?

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, Nandakumar!

totem pole?

That thought also came immediately to my mind when I first viewed the scene on the camera's LCD. That at least partly explains why I chose not to dramatically tilt it as Nandakumar suggested, despite my love of diagonals.

[bje07]

You are an artist.
Very nice B&W.

[Dave A]

Mike I find it amazing the amount of textures, shades, and shadows that can be detailed in such a small piece.

Dave

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Jean and Dave!

I find it amazing the amount of textures, shades, and shadows that can be detailed in such a small piece.

For me, that's one of the great pleasures of the process of capturing images of transparent glass, especially broken glass and even more so macro images of broken glass; while examining glass with the naked eye under normal everyday lighting, we don't see all of the gorgeous detail that special lighting reveals.

[Shadowman]

Nice, looks like damaged metal.

[Mike Buckley]

looks like damaged metal.

I agree.

It's especially interesting to note that many important photographic properties of glass and shiny metal are the same. The mind's eye often (usually?) interprets dark areas of an unrecognizable or unidentified subject to be opaque. We often intuitively expect a subject identified to be transparent glass to display dark areas only on the perimeter but that's not always the case, as exemplified by the subject in this image.

[Rainforest]

Looks like both metal and glass to me which makes it quite interesting. Nice.