Music Blues

 

Music Blues

These shots took me a long time to set up but I really think it was worth the effort. The CD's are lying partially on the floor, and some jammed under the blue LED (x3) light source. It was almost impossible to keep the dust from being atracted to the discs, so I kept a good air blower to hand and used it prior to shooting. For the red light I just pointed the LED from an optical mouse at the discs during exposure. It took a long time to get the exposure right and in the end I settled for a very long exposure with a polarising filter fitted.

Tech stuff, top picture 10sec / f16 ISO 200, focal length 46mm polarising filter fitted and tripod & cable release used. Second shot was 30sec / f16 ISO 200, focal length 46mm polarising filter fitted, tripod & cable release used. Both shots were slightly cropped in PS CS4 and levels were tweaked a little to boost colours and blacks / shadows. I carried out some selective burning on the very bottom of both images to help keep the detail.