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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Redding, CA
Date: Jul 23, 2006
Aperture: f5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60s
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 23, 2006

After this... I want a macro lens!!!
Clear bowl atop gold reflector inside larger bowl...
Golden beads on the bottom of the bowl filled with water...
Dropped water into bowl with syringe.... take photo and hope I catch something decent...

Levels
Brightness/Contrast
Shadow/Highlight
Selective Color
Clone out artifacts
dodge/burn
photofilter - warm #85
virtual photographer - glamor
dragonizer
crop
neat image
save for web

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 296
Avg (all users): 6.3249
Avg (commenters): 7.9231
Avg (participants): 6.1652
Avg (non-participants): 6.5488
Views since voting: 1431
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 197
Comments: 16
Favorites: 1 (view)


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08/28/2006 10:51:06 PM
Beautiful.
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08/05/2006 03:00:35 AM
greetings from the critique club :)

first off i'de like to congratulate youon a great image. The first thing i thought when i saw this was it accomplishes the task of "gold". Then i saw the flowing ripples and the stopped motion and thought this shot has potential. One thing you should work on with water drops ( i realize they are hard without a macro lens, i use my 17-40 most of the time) is trying to get a more interesting drop. For instance and image like this

also, why so many editing steps, everything seems ok until you used a dragonizer... why? this image in my opinion did not need to be dragonized, when i think of gold i think bright... when you draganize something it adds grain and decreases the "glamour" of it. Also i think you used a little bit too much neatimage, the background looks unreal instead of shallow DOF.

overall an excelent image and well deserving of the score it got :)

if you have any comments or questions don't hesitate to PM or e-mail me.

-Dan
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/29/2006 11:43:43 PM
Beautiful! I love how smooth the ripples are. I'm guessing it was something thicker than water? Honey, maybe?
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07/29/2006 11:30:50 PM
really cool
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07/27/2006 09:53:45 PM
Very nice!
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07/26/2006 11:55:49 PM
So cool, so gold! Well captured!
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07/26/2006 08:04:29 AM
the colours are great...looks like honey...it's just a little on the soft side
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07/25/2006 11:48:34 AM
wow! FANTASTIC! 10!
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07/25/2006 05:14:37 AM
Good capture freezing the drop in flight...
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07/24/2006 02:38:33 PM
surreal but great
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07/24/2006 02:29:29 PM
One of my favorites of the challenge so far! Knew i couldn't go through this challenge without seeing one drop of honey ;-)
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07/24/2006 12:29:08 PM
Very nicely done! I'm always so impressed by these shots, and this one is particularly beautiful!
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07/24/2006 08:34:18 AM
This is just stunning and one of my favorites for sure.....
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07/24/2006 07:58:01 AM
Beautiful!
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07/24/2006 12:51:19 AM
LOL You can put a waterdrop shot in any challenge! :-P

Seriously though, nice take on challenge. Too bad you don't have any gold (AU) in the shot...
TC
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07/24/2006 12:40:41 AM
Great Job!
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