Shakespeares Complete Works, 10 volume, published by McKay c. 1915
This volume of books was published about 109 years ago and, in my opinion, was worthy of a photograph. Because the covers and bindings were fraying so badly with considerable signs of deterioration I wanted to make sure that I captured that detail in my images. To do so I took (4) separate images of the books and bookends allowing me to get quite close with the 85mm lens. I then stiched them together in photoshop ultimately rendering a 16 x 9 image.
I used a MACRO lens and took a close up image of a small 2″ x 3″ patch where there was considerable wear to the binding. I then took the image of the books and merged it on top of the image of the worn book binding which would act as a background and merged them together in PS. This lent itself very well to the vintage feel of the image.
IMAGE of BOOKS: Photographed with a Sony A7RV and a Sony APS-C 50mm, f1.8 lens at the equivalent of 75mm.
1.3 secons, f11, ISO 100, MANUAL MODE. A (5) shot image merged in Photoshop into 1 image. Ring lighting used to provide front lighting.
IMAGE of WORN SPOT on BINDING: Photographed with a Sony A7RV and a Sony 90mm MACR, f2.8. lens.
15 seconds, f11, ISO 50, MANUAL MODE. Ambient light with a white reflector to fill the shadows.
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