Romaine Montage: This digital still-life avoids some of the problems of stacking fruits and vegetables on top of each other. In addition it eliminates the need for a camera, because a scanner can be used, thus avoiding depth of field problems. The elements were arraigned for color and shape in an attempt to balance the composition. The carrot in the upper right makes me think of the moon, the orange, the earth and the Romaine lettuce and bell pepper trees and plants on earth.
SP: The advantage of using separate files for each element, is that the montage can be created with PS. This allows each image to be processed on it's own layer. For instance, the slice of orange was not that much larger than the bell pepper. After all, wasn't the object of this project to have some fun and experiment with new approaches to photography? We are very used to cameras with lens and depth of field problems, but consider the cameras used by satelites and planitary explorers, they don't all use lenses, they use scanners and other imaging devices. Also there are computer processing techniques that will use wavelets to increase the DOF. Another project I want to do is reduce the DOF by still another approach.
I agree that using the scanner to make a montage could work but the images appear to pasted on for my liking here a bit of blending at the edges to make them appear more "shot" at one time I think would vastly improve this image. The idea and concept it good just a bit of refinement. Also the shadows? don't conincide with everything else.
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