Inside your Hard Disk #1

One of our hard disks started getting corrupted sectors at work. So we removed it from our server (replaced by a new one, and copied the data of our back up archive, so we only lost a few hours of data). Since we were pretty curious, one of us opened the case of the hard disk. I got it home to take a couple of shot for my photo blog.

TECH-INFO: a macro lens and tripod. I was experimenting to get a nice POV. RAW converted in DxO Optics Pro. I set the white balance around 15000K (and tint to green) to get this warmer colors. Also toning was set to Sepia Terra. In Photoshop I enhanced the metal details even more: using various contrast enhancement layers and the high pass filter.

Inside your Hard Disk #1

comments (6)

Chantal Huijbregts
Netherlands
4 Aug 2010, 08:32

the colortone does the works for me here... great

Scarlet
The Netherlands
4 Aug 2010, 10:03

Not in a million years would I have guessed what this is. Glad to hear you didn't lose all your data!

Tom Wilson
United Kingdom
4 Aug 2010, 13:28

I thought it was a bit of a guitar when I saw the thumbnail

Rosalyn Sears
Great Britain (UK)
4 Aug 2010, 13:37

Fascinating image in beautiful tones. (:o)

Brian Walbey
England
4 Aug 2010, 14:00

Good idea to do this Paul, it is very effective presented like this.

Claus Petersen
Denmark
6 Aug 2010, 16:03

Now thats what I call crisp details, it's just amazing how the metal shines in this one, great work!

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