I haven't actually started wrapping gifts yet (much) in 2019 so the examples are from prior years. This lot is from 2015.
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I forced the perspective and cropped for a little tidier image: shooting very large gifts tends to be difficult, because I can't back up enough to get the shallow DoF I prefer.
This gift is a bit unusual in that I think I only had to decorate it, not wrap it: thus, the paper is new. Also, I don't usually get to work with elements, such as the pine cone, that are that large, which makes for a fun change.
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Another shot cropped to emphasize the decorations. These images were made with my Sony RX100on 25dec2015
Oddly enough, perhaps the clearest image is one made after the gift was opened:
I was sure I had pictures of other giftwrapping that featured that wooden and red felt snowflake (which has since broken, possibly to the point that I finally threw it out), but wasn't able to find any, so if I made ’em I evidently failed to record them. So here's a bonus pic of that gift with the mouse, which, sad to say, has some unfortunate glare:
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