Playing with perspective, scale, a Ford Pinto and Mr Potato Head. Some fairly savage cropping to avoid having to clone out the tripod Potato was standing on and more importantly to avoid having to Photoshop in some shadows below him.
The retro, grainy black-and-white look would have looked right in a newspaper back when the car was new; “Exclusive! Well-known celebrity, Mr Potato Head, photographed at the grocery store! Turn to page 4 for the juicy details!”
Well, that’s my story anyway. The real reason is PH was so much closer to the camera that I couldn’t quite get enough depth of field, even with the Panasonic stopped down as far as it can be. The grainy, grungy B&W conversion helps hide that somewhat, and makes the Panny’s prodigious sensor noise look like the grain on fast film.
