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Birth of a Rainbow
Birth of a Rainbow
Dirtypainter


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Single Light Source II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Kodak Z740
Location: Home Studio
Date: May 28, 2006
Aperture: f8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 6sec
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2006

 I hope this smashes my first entry into DPC. It probably won't ribbon, but anything is better than that meager 4.6.

The setup was fairly simple. Taped the ribbons inside the shell and the other end was taped to a stick. poked my wife's hand thru a hole and had her hold the shell. The light source was a clamp light with a snoot to direct it down the ribbons into her hand. Then while exposure I moved the stick to blur the ribbons.

Post Processing included:
Crop
Noise ninja
Levels
Brightness/contrast,
hue/sat while masking off the hands and shell
Resize
USM
Saved for web

Well lets see if I got redemtion!

Statistics
Place: 107 out of 238
Avg (all users): 5.6102
Avg (commenters): 6.6429
Avg (participants): 5.4156
Avg (non-participants): 5.6949
Views since voting: 1644
Views during voting: 385
Votes: 254
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 06/10/2006 09:24:13 AM
Welcome from the Critique club. I have reviewed your photo and have some comments. FIrst let me tell you I love the idea that you came up with. The execution on the rainbow is very cool. Very imaginative way to get the rainbow. The back ground being varied color really hurt your score I think. Its very nice and black in sections but turns blue in the area around your focal point. SInce advanced editing was available selecting the background and getting it all dark enough that it doesnt blend colors would have been very beneficial. ALso I think maybe cloning in the colors back over the hand where the rainbow loses its coloring would have helped. I love the idea you have here and execution was pretty good. I'd say scoring about where I would expect with the small flaws in the shot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/06/2006 04:28:04 PM
i like it a lot...next time use black cloth...the blue "towel?" is distracting. great job.
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 06/05/2006 10:25:08 PM
Seems like a double light source.
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 06/03/2006 11:07:50 PM
Great photo here.....
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 06/03/2006 04:13:21 PM
good light source...7
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 06/03/2006 12:51:29 PM
Love the creativity - something new and refreshing. I wish the background were darker so that I could not see where your hands are coming from.I would love to know how you made the rainbow that appears to come out of the shell.
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 06/02/2006 04:48:13 PM
interesting
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 06/02/2006 01:30:33 PM
Hmmmm... I'm guessing you were going for the rainbow to appear to come out of the shell... but it just doesn't do it for me.
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 06/02/2006 04:14:48 AM
Awesome picture. I'm interested in how you got the colors.
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 06/02/2006 01:38:49 AM
I'm not sure how you acheived this within the rules, but it sure does look cool.
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 05/31/2006 08:06:59 PM
Fascinating. I'd like to know how it was done?
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 05/31/2006 07:03:22 PM
nicely done.
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 05/31/2006 04:39:02 PM
Whew! Takes my breath away.
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 05/31/2006 04:31:24 PM
?!? How'd you do that?
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 05/31/2006 09:38:55 AM
very interesting. too bad the rainbow gets broken up over the hand. lovely idea.
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