"...details on the shoot..."..? You mean, "...on the scan...", don't you..? Oh my, I hope I didn't conduct my message about this work of mine wrong... ...I mean, this one is really a "scanner work", not a "photography scanned"... I fear of disappointing you, for the details for these images of mine are very brief... - The shells are placed carefully on the scanner for being compatible with the simple idea of juxtaposing small vs. big, and they were scanned... - Of course, the cover of the scanner was open, and the lights in the room were off to provide for the dark background...and the lighting on the shells is solely a function of the scanner, and my role was just making use of the experience and knowledge that the scanner provides such lighting... - After the scan was done at 300 ppi, the image was photoshopped a bit by way of levels, burn, and clone brush for better image quality... - Then came the painstaking period of placing the image of the shells into an appropriate frame for effective composition. It was painstaking because moving the image a few pixels here or there seemed to end up with completely different compositions... - ...And, this is it: it was just the idea, and some simple executional steps. I know I disappointed you, didn't I..? :-( But, I used my humble knowledge about scanning objects that is derived from my self experiments and discoveries with my scanner... :-) Yet, most of us who have the chance to use a scanner make such self discoveries, don't we..?