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LucidLotus


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Challenge: Water (Advanced Editing I*)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Spare Room
Date: Dec 8, 2003
Aperture: F2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Still Life, Water
Date Uploaded: Dec 8, 2003

 I didn't want to do a typical water shot, ie water droplet or river/waterfall and I need to practice my set-up shots.

So I decided to go with ice because it was in ready supply, consisted of water and most especially if captured right it can be very beautiful.

I purposefully went for a dark blue background with varying tones to emulate the changing nature of water. The focus was tough for me, I couldn't get a nice, sharp, even focus throughout. Grr.

I decided on *melting* ice to hopefully appease those who believe water can only be water in its liquid form - thus the melted ice (water) along the base.

I'm sure this could've been captured better by others but I am very pleased with the result, we will soon see if anyone else agrees though even if they don't, I'm happy.

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 12/22/2003 10:29:10 PM
Hi LucidLotus,
Marvelous idea with ice. What one can do with a little imagination very nice. A little more DOF would have brought you a more balanced focus though the entire photo. Seems to be a touch under exposed but then again you might have blown out the top cubes a tuff call there. Nice use of lighting. Try using a card board box about 24 to 36" away using a slave and bounce the flash off the inside of the box. The box would soften the light and give you a nice soft balance thro-out the photo including the bottom. You would have to experiment with the flash settings but I think you would be pleasently suprized. You may even get a little twinkle from a few of the cubes. Over all a very nice job of a not so easy subject. Cubes from the freezer tend to have air bubbles and freeze in irregular patterns presenting a whole different set of problems from there buddies outdoors. Well done.
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 12/22/2003 11:41:42 AM
This is a lovely, nicely balanced ice sculpture. The water at the bottom could be read as a metal base.
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 12/22/2003 02:12:20 AM
In your comments, you say that getting a nice, sharp, even focus was difficult. I think that the reason for this was that you used f2.0, one of the widest stops possible.

If you had used a narrower stop, like f5.6 or so, more of the shot would have been in clearer focus. What I do when I absolutely need the shot to be in focus is to use my narrowest stop (f9.5). But experience tells me that for a 5-10 cm object f5.6 is enough. You need to experiment.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/19/2003 06:23:42 PM
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought these were birds flying out of the water but now when I see the full image and I can see that they are, in fact, ice cubes. Very imaginative!
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 12/19/2003 06:10:44 PM
Is it supposed to look like a dog leaning backwards and wearing jeans? Good idea.
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 12/19/2003 12:04:02 AM
With a touch more brightness, this would be a sparkler. Nice arrangement and nice idea. 7
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 12/18/2003 10:11:56 PM
Nice take on the challenge. The crease and hot spot on the top right is a little distracting.
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 12/18/2003 09:38:17 PM
nice use of lighting. a greater depth of field would help increase the overall focus and bring the closes melted blob into focus as well.
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 12/18/2003 12:00:44 PM
It almost looks like a plant in the thumb nail... very nice photo!
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 12/17/2003 09:47:40 PM
Lovely shapes, and I like the touch of color at the edge.
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 12/15/2003 09:36:57 PM
Neat idea, seems a bit dark overall though
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