deconstruction: cover, august bon appétit

I just had to show you this new Bon Appétit cover for August. Doesn't it make your mouth water, just looking at it? I am so glad I subscribed to this magazine, because ever since its redesign last year, it is one of the prettiest rags on the rack.

Of course, the subject matter is of interest to me too!

But perhaps the most interesting thing about this ice cream cone is how fake it is. Well, not the cone itself, but the drips. Look closer.



Not only was this big front drip - the shiny one - added in Photoshop (with corresponding shadow)...



I think this whole rear section on the right (from the nut all the way down to the tiny drip) was added too.

Now, the ice cream drips are a little more compicated. They certainly look real.



I imagine that a photo assistant or two, just off camera, teased these drips out right before the shot was taken. They could have been augmented, definitely, but if they were it was in a more realistic-looking way.

Ah, the things they do to get us to buy magazines.
Well, it works. :)