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I finished the papier-mache bunny I have been working on. (I haven't gotten around to sealing him yet though.) The bunny form is made completely out of recycled materials. His body, and ears were a frozen pizza box, and his head is made out of crumpled up paper. He also has a super cute tail in the back that you can't see. Sorry it isn't a very good photograph. I find it very hard to take a picture of something is almost completely black.
If you have any advice, tips or trick how to make the next one I make even better, I'd love to hear them!
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Cute little guy. Make several more and you can use them for bowling pins. Wouldn't that make a great kids game?
BTW, photographing black things drives photographer's wild. People trying to take photos of their black dog or cat always wonder why they come out as black lumps.
You've got some glare off the background that isn't helping. But the next time you want to take a photo of something black, do it outdoors on an overcast day. No direct sunshine whatsoever. It might help. It does on dogs.
Sue
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A bowling game would be fun. It would be easy to do as well. I'd just have to stick a crumbled paper ball in the bottom of the original design and papier-mache over that as well and I'd have a pin that would fall over easily.
It makes me happy to know I am not the only person that goes crazy trying to photograph black. I figured it was just me screwing up, I had no idea other people had problems with it too. 
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Yes, it's the extreme contrast between very light and very dark. The light meter on the camera just doesn't know what to do.
I know 35mm cameras, but I'm not very familiar with digital ones. If you have adjustments you can set, you can try getting very close to the dark object and setting it, then backing off to the proper distance and not resetting it even if the metering looks like it's off.
But just reducing the contrast between the two extremes can really help, thus the advice on the overcast day.
Sue
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:shock: If you use them for bowling pins, you may find you need to bottom weight them a bit more. Fixing a small stone, or a small bag of sand or . . . . . can balance the weight nicely.
DavidO
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Well, that's very nice, but you did it ALL WRONG! Bunnies should be made out of CHOCOLATE! 
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Lengo, you're only half right.
If you're making bunnies for yourself, they should be made from chocolate.
If you're making bunnies for someone else, they should be made from PM or cardboard.
Why would you want to waste perfectly good chocolate on someone else???
Sue, who used to live in Spfld, Thurston district
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Lengo, you're only half right.
Sue, who used to live in Spfld, Thurston district
No kidding! Wow! Small world. I live near the Post Offfice, downtown, close to the Senior Center. It's just not the same without you!
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Well, that's very nice, but you did it ALL WRONG! Bunnies should be made out of CHOCOLATE!
Lengo, I am not sure how well chocolate would go with wallpaper paste and spackle. *laughs*
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I'm not sure how it would go with it either, but I'd MUCH rather have my fingers covered in chocolate than glue!
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I'm not sure how it would go with it either, but I'd MUCH rather have my fingers covered in chocolate than glue!
You may have yourself a point there!
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