Christmas photography experiment!!

[Dana Grant]

Directions --

1. Make sugar cookie dough. Cut out a Christmas tree cookie and keep the intact surrounding dough. Bake that into a cookie, as well.

2. Ask Daughter to hold the cookie so you can shoot a photo of the DOG through the cookie (daughter in PJ's and would not pose as the subject, but she might tomorrow)

3. Add some color to the sugar cookie "frame" -- red & green sugar-look color.

4. Voila!!! A photo experiment!!!

LOL3251

[Gina Stevenson]

Directions --

1. Make sugar cookie dough. Cut out a Christmas tree cookie and keep the intact surrounding dough. Bake that into a cookie, as well.

2. Ask Daughter to hold the cookie so you can shoot a photo of the DOG through the cookie (daughter in PJ's and would not pose as the subject, but she might tomorrow)

3. Add some color to the sugar cookie "frame" -- red & green sugar-look color.

4. Voila!!! A photo experiment!!!

LOL3251

Awww, darling! A successul experiment, 4sure! ;)

[Jonathan Long]

I think that using Photoshop would have been easier.....

Jon

[Dana Grant]

JONATHAN!!!!! Maybe easier, but not nearly as FUN!!!!! Can you EAT your props, Jonathan??? Huh? Huh? Huh? :)

[Jonathan Long]

If you got paid to produce the picture... for some reason I don't think that you'd have gone to all of the trouble to bake....????

I always look at ways to make the photograph easier to do, so if I create a mask in Photoshop of a cutout Christmas tree... I can re-use it multiple times for different pictures....

That's the business part... I understand why someone may do this for the sheer enjoyment... but that's really not how my brain thinks anymore.

Jon

[Dana Grant]

Well, just for the record....I still have the cookie....going to use it again for Lindsey's photos......LOL

So it will show up again on NazNet!!! I did put the sprinkles on with a photo program, so those are not "real."

And actually, if the truth be known, that cookie will probably be handled so many times that none of us will eat it -- well, maybe Ebony.....LOL

[Jonathan Long]

Dana,

My suggestion is to shoot a picture using your "cookie frame" with a black background in the center. That way you can edit out the black and insert a picture, that would be the same as me creating a template using Photoshop to re-use over and over....

Jon

[Dana Grant]

Now that is a good idea, Jon.....however, I do like the thrill of actually taking the picture through the cookie; it is just fun. But I'm going to do the black background, because I may want to use it next year for portraits, etc. And I don't want to have to bake another one!! ha ha ha