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Seeing Red
Seeing Red
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Challenge: Words (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: Home
Date: Jul 12, 2004
Aperture: f/7.4
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1 sec
Date Uploaded: Jul 13, 2004

 Attempt to recreate an idea I'd seen in a photo magazine somewhere. Personal amusement, really. Blame laurielblack - she chose it from my available selections. Without seeing it, it should be said.

De-saturated all but red channel, and NI to try and reduce the noise but keep the channel gain up - very easily seems dark when you're only using a third of the available luminance. I'll guess that it scores a low 6 - organisation of water is too messy, and that damn top right drop seeping into the paper and losing it's definition.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 253
Avg (all users): 6.3355
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 6.0661
Avg (non-participants): 6.5167
Views since voting: 1926
Views during voting: 481
Votes: 301
Comments: 23
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/24/2004 09:58:38 PM
I think my monitor is messed up or sumthing. I can see the words and its blurry. Are the words in the droplets?
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 07/21/2004 09:19:52 PM
Congratulations on your top ten.
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 07/21/2004 03:48:33 PM
Thanks for all comments - apart from filzy1095, which is bizarre. My choice of red here was the mistake - even at 255, it seems dark on the monitor, and i just couldn't keep the contrast to darken the words without ruining the background. Intersting technical experiment though. Never saw the connection to the notorious Setzler shot until someone mentioned it.

07/21/2004 04:19:06 AM
Very creative idea, nice to see it in the top 10...
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 07/21/2004 02:57:32 AM
Glad this did well, but it should have ribboned. Stylish stuff Ed - love it.
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 07/21/2004 01:22:17 AM
Congrats on your top tenner! :o)
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 07/21/2004 12:13:00 AM
Congratulations on your top ten finish. Good, good work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/20/2004 11:54:55 PM
Beautiful color; love the water drops (not tired of them yet! ). Wish the text were a bit more bold, however. Good and interesting shot. :o)
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 07/20/2004 11:19:58 PM
Neat! I like how the water warps the word. The word and the color go together and work for the challenge. I would like the water drops to spead off the edges of the frame rather than being confined to the center. Also the color range and lighting are a bit subtle and the subject doesn;t pop out like it could with more contrast. 8
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 07/20/2004 05:21:23 PM
Pretty cool
I like the stretch effect
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 07/20/2004 03:11:45 PM
Beautiful red colors, with drops on
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 07/20/2004 05:57:11 AM
Love the idea, the red is just a little hard on the eyes... BUT one of my highest rated shots. Congrats.
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 07/19/2004 05:07:40 PM
good macro very red ;-)
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 07/18/2004 11:24:37 AM
Excellent shot. Curious as to how it was done. The word red appears to have been illuminated onto the shot from the light source...very cool.
Stronger side lighting to make the water droplets stand out more maybe?
Still very good.
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 07/16/2004 06:16:21 PM
Very nice, vivid color, interesting composition, and great imagination. 10
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 07/15/2004 11:15:02 AM
Clever and very well executed. Your lighting without any glints or glares is exceptional.
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 07/14/2004 09:42:15 PM
a unique variation on the theme (which had been getting old) of people placing drops on glass & having the subject reflected thru the drops- you did the opposite- and i like the originality. nice!
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 07/14/2004 06:16:46 PM
Very clever and very well done. Very very red!
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 07/14/2004 04:41:35 PM
Very cool idea!! Maybe a little more contrast somehow to make the water drops stand out a little more. I'm not sure how that would be done other than maybe adjust lighting to add more shadow to the edges of the drop ... but I would've never come up with this idea in the first place, so much props to you!! :-)
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 07/14/2004 03:54:07 PM
This is very interesting! At first I didn't see the "red" but once I did, wow!
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 07/14/2004 02:43:23 PM
i dont see any words
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 07/14/2004 12:54:41 PM
I like the idea! Good job!
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 07/14/2004 01:46:03 AM
Original, fun, and very nicely done!
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