rasto_cambal

Many thanks for your interest in my photographs and for all your comments, both positive and negative. This picture has been taken as you see it. Nothing has been retouched and nothing there is pasted from other images. It took me about 1 hour to take it. The biggest problem was to achieve proper expressions of both the models (man and dog) at the same time. My wife helped me to ?keep the interest? of the dog. Without her help the picture would be impossible. I took a lot of images (a full 500 MB CF card) from which only one (the last but one) was usable ? that is the one you see. The food on the plate is not cheese, it is a traditional food from this region.

Several of you expressed interest in the technology of creating of this image. I hope you understand that I do not want to share with you all my ?tricks?. But I can tell you that:

* for the lighting of the scene I have used 3 halogen lights (500 Watt each),

* as the background served painted plasterboard,

* in PS I generally apply only global corrections (levels, curves, contrast enhancement, color balance, sharpening, minor local retouching (e. g. removing spots caused by sensor dust) ? but no local heavy retouching and coloring. This image was no exception.

* I do not use any special PS-plug-ins.

Once more thanks for all the comments.

Rasto