While Peter was watching the Superbowl…..I decided to tear the kitchen apart.  This week’s project was to create abstracts from everyday kitchen objects.  I became so enamored with my cheese grater, it ruined all other objects that came after….they just weren’t as exciting (who would have thought?).

I decided to spice things up a bit in few ways:

• Using colorful wrapping paper to reflect designs or color into metal objects.
• I de-focused some of objects that had  a lot of patterns and specular highlights.
• I used the creative Lightroom Presets by Stuck in Customs in my post-processing
• I used a new filter, FilterForge, to create unique patterns and abstracts.

With my trusty macro lens, and new table top tripod from Kirk Enterpises (which made things so incredibly easy….). I was set to go.

I didn’t realize how grungy some of my kitchen stuff is, until viewing it in in post, and then having to figure out if I was really going to clean all those water spots up (the answer was no).  I decided to run some of the images below through my new plug-in FilterForge.  With this filter you have access to almost 10,000 filters (and no, that is not a typo).  Two hours later, I had to finally stop…….I could go nuts playing with this thing.  Once I get a handle on it, I’ll write a post with some tips and techniques.

Here are my images from this week, along with the creative abstracts using FilterForge.  The first three images below are variations on the fourth image – the close up of the cheese grater.