This is what I've been working on. I've suspended all the components of an Xbox 360 equally spaced and balanced. My muse for this project was David Rokeby's recent project displayed in the lobby of the Brookfield Center on Bay street.
I had the luxury of witnessing the installation when I was traveling to one of the early-morning Rogers Plus locations in the summer.
The photograph is the result of hanging the elements with a velour curtain as the backdrop. I illuminated it with one Ellipsoidal lighting instrument with a green gel.
I also used a couple other lights on the floor, also gelled.
This is the result of an HDRI experiment which is not going exactly as I'd like, even though there is some additional contrast provided I've defiantly noticed there is a enormous lack of depth because of the lack of color reflecting off the surface.
The inspiration for the color was from the Xbox marketing campaign which has endured since the beginning of the franchise.
This project took a great deal of effort to design and actually set-up and so I likely wont be immediately repeating it, but I've learned a great deal and the next time I do something similar I will be more conscious of the lighting I use.
The final image is something of my own creation. I placed a small green LED behind the power button of the Xbox, kept it low profile and top-lit with a table lamp I use alot for table top photography. The button is somewhat concave and that's what caused the dark shadow on the front.
