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Challenge: Abstract Macro II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Ricoh Caplio R2
Location: My kitchen
Date: Sep 24, 2006
Aperture: 4.1
ISO: 154
Shutter: 1/21
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 24, 2006
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This actually is a lot less edited than it looks. It is a picture actually of my hand in oil droplets suspended in cream, illuminated from above. I was eating dinner, and I noticed it, so I ran and got my camera. No tripod, no flash, just handheld.
I initally moved this into fourier space because of the noise in the image, and was wondering if I could clean it up there without getting rid of the detail. The fourier transform was very intersting, and showed almost no structure, so I decided to mess around and see what the inverse would return.
I duplicated the background layer, then ran a fourier transform on the background layer, keeping the duplicate on top. I adjusted the hue and saturation of the fourier transform, and upon inverse transformation it had a lot more texture (particularly on the right half of the image). Adjusted the opacity of the top layer, and voila.
Cropped...and that was it. |
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10/05/2006 08:37:45 AM |
Greets from the Critique Club
As far as the image goes: Yes, it's abstract; Yes, it's a macro. The color is kinda blah and it's quite blurry.
I'm guessing that you were trying to get the focus on the oil drops showing your hand, but that doesn't come across.
And it's entirely too grey for my tastes.
Keep shooting.
--Mike |
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10/02/2006 03:26:06 PM |
| OK. It's somewhat blurred (use a tripod!) and flat. People also tend to prefer bright colors, so working in B&W here is a disadvantage. What was this like in color? |
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10/01/2006 02:55:05 PM |
| took me a while to see the fingers in the droplets. interesting grab |
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09/29/2006 10:34:25 PM |
| the variations in hand size and the old-timey processing make this much much better than the tiresome multi-image water drop shots that infect this shot. You show them how it's done. This picture is emotional, ominous, beautiful. 9 |
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09/28/2006 10:53:42 AM |
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09/26/2006 07:29:50 PM |
| ooh, i like the hand, although i didn't see it until i looked closer to see what the title was all about, interesting |
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09/25/2006 02:14:57 PM |
| This would make a great poster. |
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