After taking several pictures of a hard-disk-casing grill (see the Blue-red macro (part 1) story first), I wanted to improve on the drama of the photos—to create something more 3D, more engaging.

I decided to stick with the same props (hard-disk-casing and a mouse)…

…and to add something else, between the blue and red lights. The idea was that the blue-lit grill of the hard-disk-casing grill would serve as a background and a mouse's red light will be used as a source of light for the object of my choosing. The search for the object of my choosing was not long—I decided upon a webcamera. Luckily for me, it has its own blue light, which will improve the picture even further.

After setting a photocamera (with a 105 mm macro lens on it) up, alligning everything, focusing—I switched the room lights off and according to the plan…

…took the final photo (click on the photo for the bigger picture).