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Inventing The First Wheel: A Stone Age Rock Wheel

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Inventing The First Wheel: A Stone Age Rock Wheel.


A stone ax leans against a stone wheel in this concept stock photo the man's first wheel. This picture was created to illustrate the themes of innovation, creativity, progress and similar ideas. This image is about problem solving and coming up with new solutions for old problems.

I photographed this scene in my studio. First I spread dirt across the floor (over a tarp to facilitate easy clean-up). I hired a prop maker to create the wheel and ax, which he did by carving the forms out of styrofoam and thin applying a thin coat of cement over the forms. To create the background of the cave, supposedly formed from rock, I simply took a gray sheet of seamless paper and crinkled it up, then spread it out again.

To light the image I provided overall lighting by pointing two strobe heads up at the ceiling. I then put spot grid attachments of varying degrees over four more heads and pointed two at the wheel and ax, and two, coming down at an angle, skimming across the surface of the seamless paper. Finally, one more head with a medium sized softbox was positioned above the wheel and ax.



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