I do like this viewpoint. Did you just bind the crayons together with a rubber band?
3, actually. And they were so friggin slippery it took me quite a while to get them in the order I wanted them.
My biggest issue was the fact the lens is a fraction of an inch away from them, lighting was a problem. So I tried to put the lighter colors in the middle and the dark ones around the outside edge. Took me half an hour to accomplish that alone!
Then, since the fisheye is circular, I needed to make a 'light box' for the white background, So I 'wrapped' the bundle with sheets of cut-up paper fashioned into a 5-sized 'box'. I brought in two 300ws lights with umbrellas as close as possible to flood everything with as much light as possible.
I had to shoot at f/22 to get the focus at that extremely close subject. I first tried a single shot at ISO 6400, but didn't care for the noise. So I shut off all the lights (modelling lights as well), used Bulb, went back to ISO 100 and fired the monolights 12 times.
I took some photos of the set-up since I still had it in place.
"Top" of the paper box laid back to show the crayons and lens so close:
The ends of the crayons are all 'curved' at roughly the same arc as the front of the fisheye lens.
I haven't looked, but I did run the lens into the crayons a couple times and there may be some colored spots on the lens!
Top of the paper box back in place:
If you're sharp-eyed, you'll notice the VF is covered to prevent light spilling in.
