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Fired Ice
Fired Ice
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: The Four Elements (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Kodak DC4800
Location: My kitchen
Date: Feb 12, 2004
Aperture: 1:3:0
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2004

 THE SHOOT: Made a bowl of ice, dug a hole in the bottom. Dipped some cosmetic remover pads in "fondue fuel" (which accounts for the blue flame) and placed the pads in the hole. I lit the whole thing up. The bowl was placed on a black cloth. The room was mostly dark with a desk lamp lighting the bottom of the ice bowl.

THE DIGITAL DARKROOM: Adjusted brightness and contrast, ran through Neat image to get rid of the graininess in the flame, cropped, resized and sharpened.

Voilà!

I had fun shooting this, 'cours we had to keep water nearby but hey!

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 139
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Avg (commenters): 7.0000
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Views since voting: 1166
Votes: 157
Comments: 13
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AuthorThread
 02/25/2004 06:37:58 AM
Thanks Rob!
I really enjoyed this challenge as it was my first challenge after 2 years of leave from dpc.
I'm not sure I'll be doing the fire challenge, since I'm in the middle of midterms right now.

Thank you though, really makes me feel better to know someone liked it enough to take a minute and comment afterwards.

Stéphanie
 02/25/2004 01:50:34 AM
THis was one my only ten in the the challenge so I am real surprised that it did not do better. I found this image extremely fascinating and hope you might think of trying it again for the fire challenge, unless, of course you have some other great idea for same. Like this very much as an abstract and would like to see what you might get with further experimentation. Great job! RoB

Message edited by author 2004-02-25 01:51:25.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/22/2004 12:37:56 PM
what the....how the.....very cool visual! how did you do that?
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 02/21/2004 01:44:00 AM
THis needs to be bigger so we can see what's going on. the crop should be a little tighter too so there is minimal bare black space in the composition. Great subject for a macro tho
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 02/20/2004 11:14:02 PM
This si such a beautiful abstract, and very shar; would have been helped by bringing the longest side up to 640 px. Still very nice work.
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 02/19/2004 04:29:16 PM
I can't wait to read what this is, I can't tell! But I like it!
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 02/18/2004 10:08:53 PM
Good imagination
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 02/17/2004 05:23:02 PM
What is that? An ice candle? Weird.
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 02/17/2004 04:45:40 PM
fatastic abstract. very original. 10
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 02/17/2004 01:14:18 AM
i like the assortment of colors
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 02/16/2004 11:57:33 PM
The colors are brought out beautifully in this image. Congratulations on thinking this one up. Nice composition.
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 02/16/2004 10:54:16 AM
beautiful
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 02/16/2004 12:58:37 AM
crop is a little tight on the bottom, but a very cool image! great colors and interesting effect.
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