This creative photography project was really fun for me.  My instructor, Caryn Esplin suggested that we could try to do an Evan Sharboneau style floating fruit photo.  I would have done that if it weren’t for the fact that it’s almost halloween and we didn’t have any nice looking fruit around the house that day (guess it’s time to go grocery shopping again).

For this shot, I grabbed our festive Halloween candy bowl, which happened to only have about 1/4 the amount of candy it looks like it has in this photo.  I stuffed a couple clean wash cloths behind the candy to make all fill up the one side of the bowl I needed to shoot.

I picked out my five or six favorite candy corn pieces and I was originally thinking that I could just sit them on top of a box or something and then shoot them all at once… but candy corn isn’t flat on the bottoms, so I resolved to use a sewing pin.

I poked the pin through a thin box I had and then through the candy corn and took several different shots (trying to light each one with auxiliary lighting).  Then took my favorite shots, and masked about 7 layers together.  I then took the 5-6 original candy corns and duplicated the layers in Photoshop and transformed them slightly.

And there you have it, floating Halloween Candy Corn!

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