Eggs

As some of you know, I'm taking a photography class.  Our first assignment was 'Chicken Eggs.'  I was left scratching my head as to what to do.  I had some ideas, some of which I saw variations of during the professor showing examples.

The one thing I thought of that I hadn't seen was a chicken egg illuminated from the inside.  I took a couple of eggs, blew them out and opened one end enough to stick a Christmas light inside.  This worked pretty well except for the fact that I don't have a lot of experience with night photography.

My first examples are pretty poor.

I kept trying different things.

Illuminated from within with a blue light.

And green.

A couple of days later I tried with a remote shutter release.

The results were better, but still not as good as I'd hoped.

One last attempt at illumination.

I then moved outdoors and set this on one of the shelves on my gas grill.

It had been raining a bit.



I'm still not thrilled with how these turned out, but it was an interesting exercise and I'd like to try it again sometime.