civilized ku # 798 ~ spent and get our way to economic "recovery"
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 04:17PM 
The most fabulous object in the world • click to embiggenIt has been stated many times that the best picture makers understand the characteristics and limits of the medium and use them to their advantage in their picture making.
In the case of the most fabulous object in the world picture in this entry, I knew that the light on the table was far and away beyond the dynamic range of my camera's sensor - or, for that matter, any sensor. How far beyond, I didn't know but suffice it to say, it was a great deal brighter than the room's rather subdued light.
My first thought was to do the bracketed exposure / blend thing in order to bring it all together. That thought lasted only a second or less and was immediately superceded by: 1) a line from Time Bandits regarding "the most fabulous object in the world", and 2) the glowing briefcase contents from Pulp Fiction.
With those thoughts in mind, and the fact that we're smack dab in the middle of the Xmas binge-ing season, I thought that it would be appropriate to make a picture of the most fabulous object in the world. After all, that's what everyone wants, right? Not to mention the timely fact that the relentless and unbridled pursuit of that object seems to be what has landed us - the people on Main Street and the people on Wall Street (with the help of the people in Washington) squarely in the Great Recession.
It also worth noting that, just like Time Bandit's the most fabulous object in the world and Pulp Fiction's glowing briefcase contents, the glowing most fabulous object in the world pictured in this entry is also guarded/tended by someone who has the look of a person you would not want to meet in a dark alley.
That alone should tell you something important about the most fabulous object in the world.
Reader Comments (2)
I thought of Pulp Fiction before reading the text!
the most fabulous object in the world...beef? looks to me like the man at the buffet table who serves the beef. Then I read