NB

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

I have a preference for this particular brand of notepad, and use a variety of sizes for different purposes.

Pentax K-x - 1/15 sec - f/? - ISO 200 - ~82mm

Achiever 300DX flash triggered manually. I used a laptop screen to block light to the background, and this is the time I've used this technique (lighting the subject with a flash and allowing the background to go completely dark). It was a pretty dark background to start with but max synch speed is not very high when you're using the test button and I'm going to count it.

Used GIMP to adjust levels (which blacked out the extremely dim remaining background) then scaled (so I wouldn't crash GIMP during the rest on my 5 year old laptop). I rotated, and cropped a piece of the cover to go over the bulldog clip that it was held up with. I used several different selection tools, selection moving, layer masking and generally practised techniques that are a bit more advanced than what I normally used.

I probably could have cropped closer at the top.