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Submitted: March 24, 2012
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Make:OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Model:E-1
Shutter Speed:1/125 second
Aperture:F/2.0
Focal Length:50 mm
ISO Speed:200
Date Taken:Jun 19, 2010, 2:49:29 PM
Software:GIMP 2.6.11

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A Yolky Demise.by ~Camiloo

Photography / Conceptual

This is, of course, related to Humpty Dumpty! His story (or song) was my favorite as a kid because it wasn't all touchy romantic, it was humorous. Eggs don't have legs. Or hands. But Humpty had the ability to climb a wall. Offbeat! Wikipedia says that "Humpty Dumpty" was an 18th century slang term that meant "short and clumsy person". In one of Lewis Carroll's books, he was a literary geek who discusses pragmatics and semantics! For a short and clumsy guy, that's awesome.

This started as a photographing of this egg on top of a bulb's bottom metal part, and as I was shooting, my leg caught the leg of the table it was on and then the egg suffered Humpty's fate.
The egg was already empty (my Mom had sent Humpty's insides down the sink) , so fortunately there wasn't a sticky mess. I stopped shooting for a while, then thought of "fixing" the egg with little plasters. I drew some little plasters with a fine-tipped permanent marker on a piece of masking tape and cut them out. And it evolved into a Humpty-inspired idea!

Edited in GIMP, taken with the Olympus E-1 DSLR using a 50mm Zuiko Digital lens. Window light on one side with a mirror directly opposite of the window to balance the light on both sides of the images. Any more technical questions, do ask in the comments!

A little side-note, I got featured in a Dubai magazine last month!
Currently writing a journal entry on it!
This wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the support that all of you have given me here! Thank you sooo much!

You can view the magazine here:
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And also the article I wrote for the magazine here:
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It's a little sneak peek about my process of creating pictures.
I learned some things about my own process while writing that article which I haven't noticed before.
If you have a store nearby that sells Soura Magazine, do buy issue number 32!
Thank you so much for all the support!