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Drink More Water
1st PlaceDrink More Water
Samantha_T


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Challenge: New Year's Resolution V (Advanced Editing VII)
Date: Jan 6, 2013
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Jan 6, 2013

This is a real New Year's resolution for me. I don't drink nearly enough water on an every day basis.

For this shot I used my old underwater Canon D10 that I got a few years back. I didn't even want to chance dropping my big Sony into the water. :)

I spent about an hour with my face half under the water - both eyes open - which was a terrible idea. When I finished I had one normal eye and one very blood shot, irritated eye. I thought a night's sleep would do the trick and repair it, but to my dismay I woke up the next morning and it looked even worse! I walked around all the next day with one normal eye and one awful eye, haha! I felt so ridiculous.

Thanks for all the comments and votes! Glad to know my eye didn't suffer for nothing. ;)

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 81
Avg (all users): 7.2681
Avg (commenters): 7.7143
Avg (participants): 6.7619
Avg (non-participants): 7.4896
Views since voting: 3819
Views during voting: 311
Votes: 138
Comments: 45
Favorites: 6 (view)


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04/11/2020 04:41:48 PM
amazing image! i found my self looking for long time. inspiring.
02/24/2013 03:01:45 PM
You may or may not be aware that this is one of the photos being used in the online "publications" referenced here: DPC forum thread on LBNelert
I noticed it when I was searching for my own. There were so many from DPC that I could not document them all - if you want to have it removed, see posts from LydiaToo and Mike_311 on p. 5 of the forum thread. To locate it more easily, check both blogs and the main newsletter, starting with the dates when this challenge was in voting or shortly thereafter.
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01/18/2013 05:42:47 PM
Very nice one, great idea, great everything! I didnt know the model was you until I read the description, nice double work!

Message edited by author 2013-01-18 17:43:07.
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01/18/2013 02:26:00 AM
Learn how to wink? ;)
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01/17/2013 08:37:24 PM
What a fabulous job!!!
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01/17/2013 08:33:38 PM
Wow, great shot considering what you or at least our eye went through. Hope this blue was worth it!! I thought you had just put your face behind a sheet of slightly warped glass and then laid the image on its side. Never guessed that you did use water!!
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01/17/2013 03:56:28 PM
splendid! amazingly exactitude, hope your eye feels better now!
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01/17/2013 11:37:40 AM
Another stunning shot. Well imagined and executed as we have come to rely on from you. Congrats on the ribbon. At the end of the hour and a half you should have switched sides and take one of the lovely blood shot eye looming above the water line.
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01/17/2013 12:04:41 AM
You ALWAYS entertain me, Samantha.

:D

Thanks.
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01/16/2013 11:35:08 AM
Yes, definitely drink more water and congrats on your win!! Great image!!
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01/16/2013 11:01:27 AM
To the ends we go for the right result. This had blue all over it. Glad your efforts were rewarded! Always fun to see your next project.
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01/16/2013 10:45:13 AM
Glad to see that level of commitment was rewarded. Congrats
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01/16/2013 09:52:50 AM
You are such a gorgeous model yet I find your photography rather oddly harsh. Hope your eye feels better! Congrats on your ribbon.
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01/16/2013 08:35:29 AM
Great shot, congrats. Sometimes we need to suffer for our art :)
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01/16/2013 08:18:04 AM
You're very dedicated to your art, I haven't reached that stage yet, where I can pull these stunts off!

Good goal to have, being a huge water drinker myself.

Well deserved blue.
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01/16/2013 08:03:57 AM
You did it again. Simply great. This sort of shot is on my bucket list LOL
Congratz
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01/16/2013 07:27:03 AM
I expect the impression of your eye(s) will hunt me in my dreams ;-) That`s the sort of pictures which has a suction effect on me. Congratulation
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01/16/2013 07:23:57 AM
Great shot! Congrats!
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01/16/2013 06:58:40 AM
Congrats, this is great
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01/16/2013 06:11:08 AM
I am not sure drowning is going to be the best way to drink more water. ;)

Great image. I saw Blue as soon as the image came up when I went through the challenge entries. Congrats on the Blue
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01/16/2013 04:51:21 AM
Congratulations,best in show for sure.
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01/16/2013 03:16:27 AM
Spectacular image, Samantha. Congrats on t he blue. Hopefully, it made up for that red eye!
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01/16/2013 03:11:15 AM
huge congratulations sam this image is outstanding... and i agree as well, top commitment = success.
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01/16/2013 02:52:26 AM
What Paul said (and he sure knows what he says). Congrats on another deserved ribbon.
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01/16/2013 02:40:49 AM
This is just tremendous. There's no doubting your photographic skills, but we shouldn't underestimate your modelling skills either. I book professional models all the time and I have to say I'd book you in a heartbeat. It is exactly this sort of commitment to an image that makes all the difference.

With both these sets of skills, matched with standout post-processing ability and a great conceptual imagination, it's no wonder you grace the front page so often.

I'd be pleased to get this shot of a model, to pull it off as a self is boggling. Well done.

(I think the eye is not at all overdone - it anchors and is key to the image)
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01/16/2013 02:09:39 AM
amazing shot
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01/16/2013 01:35:39 AM
AWESOME DESERVED THE BLUE XOX
01/16/2013 12:39:15 AM
Well it was worth it! Great capture! Beautiful, really beautiful...congratulations...
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01/16/2013 12:11:56 AM
I'd avoid bathwater though :-) WD!
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01/16/2013 12:09:19 AM
Congratulations! Cool image. (If you work out how to drink as much water as you should, let me know.)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/15/2013 11:29:25 PM
good effect
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01/15/2013 12:02:56 PM
Samantha? :) Probably the most creative entry. Very good light. The eye and lips look great. Love the reflection and the feeling of symmetry. Lovely!
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01/14/2013 11:15:20 AM
Another fantastic image.
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01/13/2013 10:01:55 PM
Excellent!! Lovely lighting and composition! Top 3 for sure!
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01/11/2013 10:25:42 PM
I think I see the one that's gonna win....! Very nice.
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01/11/2013 01:33:55 PM
This is wild and wonderful !!!! 10
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01/11/2013 03:05:10 AM
Definitely gave me the mouthful of water feeling. powerful shot
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01/10/2013 11:38:57 AM
Similar to a sjhuls image last year but much more effective,top ten for sure.
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01/10/2013 12:29:26 AM
Top 3
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01/09/2013 01:49:07 PM
Wonderfully quirky Mrs T. Wonder how you got the camera so low?
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01/09/2013 10:44:38 AM
This is really interesting, but the eye is just way overdone. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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01/09/2013 07:55:28 AM
I like this. Very different!
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01/09/2013 07:27:53 AM
Sick shot I can't stop looking at it.
Top notch, well done.
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01/09/2013 01:41:38 AM
Oh you clever girl! :)
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01/09/2013 12:23:49 AM
Ha! So fun!


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