King of the hill

Soundtrack 'Dominion' by Jens Buchert: soundcloud.com/jens-buchert/dominion

I did a retake of my old shot I took over six years ago:


I have often planned to do this, and shoot some of my ideas again with better gear, but also in order to find some new twist on my old subjects. I recommend this to everyone. You will keep the old skills sharp, and also improve them, and maybe even discover something new.

For this shot I held my mobile phone LED as a light source, holding it on my left hand. Then thanks to new better camera, I was able to take hand held shot by holding the camera on with my right hand.

The lighter double shadow is caused by the light reflected from the chess board surface. The same chess board can be seen also here: