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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 824691" data-attributes="member: 53455">Thank you very much !A serving kit from the French Second EmpireMost people have heard (at least vaguely) about French Emperor Napoléon, fewer know about his nephew Napoléon III, who restored the Empire between 1852 and 1870. This lovely set of serving pieces dates from that period and has come to me through my mother. It is solid silver with handles made of ivory carved with the family crest.The bottle-shaped wooden box of Élixir de Bon-Secours contained a small bottle of cough syrup/cureall potion like they were quite fond of at the very beginning of the 20th century.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting. Composite shot made up of 32 focus-stacked exposures, using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.The main problem when one uses this kind of black, highly reflective material, is the dust. Unavoidable, unless you work in a surgical environment, and my studio certainly isn’t that. I spent an hour cleaning it up in Photoshop and I know tons of specks remain.[ATTACH=full]410835[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 824691, member: 53455"] Thank you very much ! [B]A serving kit from the French Second Empire[/B] Most people have heard (at least vaguely) about French Emperor Napoléon, fewer know about his nephew Napoléon III, who restored the Empire between 1852 and 1870. This lovely set of serving pieces dates from that period and has come to me through my mother. It is solid silver with handles made of ivory carved with the family crest. The bottle-shaped wooden box of [I]Élixir de Bon-Secours[/I] contained a small bottle of cough syrup/cureall potion like they were quite fond of at the very beginning of the 20th century. Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Artificial lighting. Composite shot made up of 32 focus-stacked exposures, using the built-in function on the camera. Stack processed with Helicon Focus. The main problem when one uses this kind of black, highly reflective material, is the dust. Unavoidable, unless you work in a surgical environment, and my studio certainly isn’t that. I spent an hour cleaning it up in Photoshop and I know tons of specks remain. [ATTACH type="full" alt="51384625260_1f2f220c1e_o.jpg"]410835[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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