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The background. A third of the time in this image I spent on creating the background; I probably should have just painted it. But I wanted everything to go through the camera. So here is the one I used in the final montage. It's a glass bowl with strips of black cardboard for the columns. In the end it worked but I'm still not a 100% happy with it.
Model
E-520
Aperture
f/4.3
Iso
400
Shutter Speed
1/60s