In this video, photographer Tony Cenicola explains how he created the "exploding pie."
The assignment: illustrate an article on the cover of Thursday’s special section, Wealth and Personal Finance, on how the customary asset-allocation pie has been upended by the recession. Tony Cenicola, the master of The Times’s basement photo studio, shows us how he did it.Mr. Cenicola’s imagination and ingenuity are evident in this four-minute video, which reminds us — in the age of computer-generated imagery — just how convincing three-dimensional objects can be and how they seem much more “realistic” (if you can use that word in discussing a studio shot) because of their unpredictable properties. He also reveals more about his eating habits than we may have cared to know.
Go check out the video on the blog page, it's short and offers a step by step process for blowing up a pie.
