This was an outtake for one of the assignments during my studies at Photo Academy Amsterdam. The actual submission was posted earlier here in another challenge.
The technical part of the assignment was to use a pepper (with reference to Edward Weston pepper 30) and use a setup to emphasise and fully show all details of its shape and its surface texture. Each shadow and highlight had to match the movement of the shape back and forth in a natural way. No strange highlights at places where the shape actually did move back for example.
Additionally, on the more creative side, like Edward Weston, if possible, we had to make the pepper look like something else, for example a part of the human body (that is why the other image was chosen as submission).
The setup here was to start with a dark tent of non reflective black cloth and a single light and then use strips of white, grey and black paper of different sizes and placed at different angles to ensure the right reflection at the right place of the surface of the pepper to bring out all details.
This was many hours of work and every submission was reviewed critically and many student were sent home to try again.
This was a yellow pepper. Red and green peppers are even more difficult because you get burned out highlights at unwanted places much easier.
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