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Pepto Splash
Pepto Splash
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Challenge: Pink (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Dining room
Date: Feb 4, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2005

 I've been wanting to try a famous "DPC splash," so I thought I'd do it here. I set up a foamcore "house" to bounce the flash off of, then duc-taped the spoon and bottle to barbeque skewers to support them. I knew that there wouldn't be much of a splash from just a couple inches, so I held a syringe (no needle) filled with Pepto about 3 feet above the spoon and dropped a drop, but accuracy is hard doing it that way and releasing the shutter at the same time. The splashes were more like craters (pretty neat effect though) due to the thick consistency of the Pepto. So off to the store and got some Hershey's strawberry milk mix. Came home and mixed to the same "Pepto pink."

Re-set up the shot to get a little closer after seeing the first results. Put a small tube on the syringe and made a small hole in the top foamcore piece. To make the drop more precise, I lined the hole up to the spoon with a fishing line, a nail and gravity to get it as close to the mouth of the bottle, then removed the fishing line. Now it was just shoot, shoot, shoot to get as many splashes as I could to choose from. I got a lot of different kinds of splashes from tiny petite fanned out crowns, to big gloppy ones. This one isn't the prettiest splash, but it gives the effect of the thickness of the Pepto.

Cloned out some tiny spots here and there and a small drip under the mouth of the bottle. Brightness/contrast adjusted. USM. Save for web.

I spent WAY too much time on this, but learned a lot so that's good. Now I'll try some closer shots of splashes.

Lens used: Canon 28-135 IS

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 270
Avg (all users): 6.3580
Avg (commenters): 7.4500
Avg (participants): 6.5034
Avg (non-participants): 6.1636
Views since voting: 2164
Views during voting: 444
Votes: 257
Comments: 25
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 08/23/2005 09:36:16 AM
Applaud your efforts to create here. Cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/14/2005 10:05:43 AM
Congratulations on your top 20 finish with this pepto splash.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/14/2005 12:20:21 AM
Thanks for all the great votes! I really didn't think it would place as high as it did, especially with all the nice photos that were entered. I wanted to do something different with pink, turns out there were like 4 other Pepto shots.

Message edited by author 2005-03-08 13:18:04.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/13/2005 09:34:37 PM
This may be the first frame I have seen that really helps a shot. and it was very good on it's own, but this one ought to finish with a ribbon. great idea well executed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/13/2005 02:45:35 PM
The best pepto shot. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/12/2005 04:02:06 PM
Best of the pepto shots, great capture, good luck.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/12/2005 02:27:33 PM
Best of the Pepto shots
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/12/2005 01:25:47 PM
I'm all for the splash images, but it doesn't look like its splashing from something that came out of the pepto bottle.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/11/2005 08:23:07 PM
the best of all the pepto pictures. nice crown and sharp picture. should finish high in the voting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2005 09:45:21 PM
Very good. Looks like the spoon is going to swallow you.lol 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 03:02:55 PM
Very nicely done.
Good luck with this as it deserves a high placing
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 02:45:55 PM
Returning for comment:
The idea is funny and the execution is wonderful!
Bumping up.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 12:19:08 PM
Nice capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2005 05:24:00 PM
Well done! Very "pink" too. [8]
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2005 11:04:28 AM
Fantastic way to present Pepto-Bismol!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2005 01:02:22 AM
The background is a little drab. A pink or yellow one would really make the image pop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 10:20:13 PM
The studio style photo isn't really my thing, but this one is kind of cool. Nice variation on the oh-so-popular water drop concept.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 09:22:17 PM
Best of the Pepto photos I have seen so far in this challenge...9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 09:02:00 PM
I like this... critique: I would have zoomed in and got a good macro on the spoon and left out the bottle :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 03:32:48 PM
Wow, what a cool looking splash! Perfect timing!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 11:52:00 AM
Wow! That neat:) How many times did this take you to get it right?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 10:48:43 AM
What an amazing shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 07:57:24 AM
relief from f l o w e r s .......... 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 05:47:13 AM
What a neat picture! The lighting and focus are superb.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/07/2005 01:08:49 AM
Technically impressive shot...subject matter is a little predictable but it's a good catch.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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