Garlic
For a story on growing garlic, I had originally thought I could focus enough light through a bulb to make it translucent. But actually shooting the bulb, I found it too dense to have light shining through.
I think I nice effect could be to have an x-ray taken of the bulb and then blend a photograph of it over the top. You would be able to see the cloves inside and also the outside color. I may try that in the future.
But for now, I found out the picture I could get from shooting, with backlighting, one clove to be interesting.
If room on the page we’ll also include a few images of the whole bulb.
So to get these pictures, I had a focussed light from the back side, and a reflective piece of white cardboard from the front left. I hung the garlic from the ceiling, held in place by a sheet rock screw, fastened into the top of the garlic. Then I took the screw out using photoshop.
It’s a photo illustration to begin with so removing objects that I put in the picture is an okay practice.
I looooove garlic! The pictures are stumning; I see the whole bulb is a starship from Garlika, descending on us. The clove looks kind of like a strange bug..maybe a larval hatchling just discharged from the mother ship.
I ended up taking the leftovers from the shoot and pickling them. They should taste pretty good in a couple months around Christmas. I’ll try not to think of them as looking like strange bugs while putting them in my mouth!
Mmmm. Pickled garlic! Yes!
Hmmm. Pickled bugs. No, thanks. I’ll get my protein another way.
Tip: Do you know that nuking garlic, which is an easy way to soften it (in a little oil) kills the nutrients in the garlic? I just learned that recently. And it is so easy, too but now I just heat it in a small pan. I should research this to see if it is true.