You don't take a photograph, you make it - Ansel Adams

[nokiN]

To wind up with a B&W image, I tacked sheets of sketching paper to a sheet of white foamboard. The foam board was then placed about 4 feet in front of a gray, seamless paper background in my studio.

I grabbed a Nikon SB-600, put a blue gel on it, set the speedlight to a wide zoom angle (14mm), put it in manual mode, and set it to 1/32 power. I then put a Stofen diffuser on the speedlight head, mounted it all on a light stand, and placed it behind the paper sheets.

A Nikon D300 with a radio trigger was mounted on a 3-way pan/tilt head, and put into position.

A few clicks later the base color image was made. All that was left was the conversion of the image to B&W in Photoshop using a B&W adjustment layer and some other common digital darkroom techniques.

The EXIF data for the image is intact.

Here is the image I made:

[bahgheera]

Now that is impressive. Very creative, amazing. Thanks for sharing.

[nokiN]

Thanks. It's was pretty easy and inexpensive to do.

[ollie]

well, this is brilliant. I couldn't see at first how you arranged the sheets, but a quick visit to your website to look at more images from your Sketch Paper Series, and I now can see it. What a marvellous concept. The PP is also great

[nokiN]

:Blush

Thank you.

Often, all it takes is something simple, looked at in a different way.