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Challenge: Still Life With Motion (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Melbourne Australia
Date: Sep 24, 2007
Aperture: F5.0
ISO: 1100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Sep 23, 2007
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The Image: My wife went to Sydney for work for a few days, so I got away with a major crime...water all over our best table and floor. I guess, while the cat is away, the mice play!
I used my D200 on a tripod with a watering bucket over the flowers and shot at 5fps. The light was all natural, no flash. If anything, it has quite a harsh light that looks like I used flash which spoils it for me.
EDIT: Levels, USM, som d and b, blur, clonesd out some minor spots, Noise Ninja, some selective sharpening.
I really wanted an old world look, but the water kind of spoiled all of that. Once everything was wet, it took away the softness.
So I did a layer and applied gaussian blur, then took down the opacity. This gave me a nicer softness with all of the contrast. I like the overall result.
PREDICTION: If I get to 6.2 I will be happy. It might be a love-it-or-hate-it image.
POST: This was a terrible image for me to enter. While the idea was OK, the execution was terrible. I agree with yanko on this, that I should have either frozen the water or gone for a longer exposure to make the wayer a mist. Like this, ity is lukewarm and lukewarm sucks. Once I had a good look at it, I wouldn't have given an image like this more than 5. A real learning experience for me... |
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09/30/2007 09:11:16 PM |
| Good idea. I think you would have had more success if you either went with a longer exposure so the water looks smoother or a shorter exposure time to freeze the water completely. Either one would have carried more wow factor than the inbetween state you went with. Just a thought. |
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09/29/2007 06:43:07 PM |
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09/28/2007 08:54:33 PM |
| Lovely shot. Put a smile on my face |
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09/27/2007 02:35:46 PM |
| Must've been a messy cleanup. I like the action of the water yet everything else is still. I might have had a touch more negative space to the right or left. Just my taste though. ;~D |
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09/26/2007 05:50:32 PM |
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09/26/2007 10:20:26 AM |
| Good handling of the spray without the flowers moving all over, but the flowers are pretty blown out. |
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09/24/2007 09:15:18 PM |
| very nicely done. nice choice of colors. |
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09/24/2007 06:59:39 PM |
| I think this would look nicer if the stream water wasn't so concentrated; if it looked more like rain and less like a shower. |
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09/24/2007 06:30:50 AM |
| very cool concept - the flowers seem a bit blown out however. the lighting on the vase and lower portion of the image is right on the money. more balance could have really made this outstanding |
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09/24/2007 12:37:24 AM |
| Nice title, looks drenched, saturated. psart 8 |
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