Excellent shot :) At first I thought those were handcuffs on the bottom of the image - had to take another sip of coffee and another closer look :) Amazing image - Details on how you created this image - Pleaseeeeeeeeee :) Dee-Marie

Wonderful image. I really like it.

now that's a big, big WOW!!!! ...so cool!!! o.O!
i see it busted on the rock & flying up in a million pieces!

That is really amazing, Yep details please

I still see handcuffs :P

This shot is old-school...taken with a SpeedGraphic 4x5, all effects done in-camera. The background is just a black paper sweep, each suspended piece is being held by a rod coming through the paper in line with the lens so it can't be seen. It was lit and shot, then I poked some holes in the backdrop and added a star filter and double exposed the film with a light source from the back (without front lighting). Just seemed like a neat thing to do with a scrapped Minolta SRT!

i am even more impressed! thanks for explaining how you did this :]

I agree, I was thinking Photoshop. Now that you tell me it was done manually, WOW!

Holy Moly - Old School rules! Thanks soOOoo much for the back-story! Outstanding work! Dee-Marie

I'm not sure that Photoshop is any advantage on something like this. You still have to shoot each element, and get the lighting matched, and a lot else. (There was a publicity thingie arrived from what used to be my bank -- blatant composite image, they couldn't even match the sun direction on five vertical cylinders. But it took me a couple of minutes to pin down what was looking really wrong.)

Yeah - kinda like the old intro to 'Amazing Stories" - the intro featured a book flapping in front of the screen - and within that book, there was (I think...?) "A Tale Of Two Cities" - of course, nobody would be able to read the text during the time it was flapping on screen, but, according to the creator, the detail can be "felt", and therefor contributes to the reality of the illusion. It's not enough to "look" real - you have to attack the subliminal areas to pull it off....then, there is no "there's something wrong with this" effect.