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Captured Beauty
Captured Beauty
dleach


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Challenge: Water II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: San Antonio Texas
Date: Mar 24, 2006
Aperture: f 7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Mar 25, 2006

 Got the idea from the RadiantVista.com website tutorial on sizing for the web.

Head to the hardware store to get a sheet of glass. Tried many attempts to make the water droplets but couldn't get the droplets to form. Viscosity of the water on the glass plate was too weak so the water drops would just flatten out. I tried to freeze the glass plate with some water but that didn't work out either.

Then it occurs to me to spray the water droplets on the bottom side of the glass while it was suspended between two chairs (make-shift studio). This did the trick allowing the water droplets to form.

Setup:

- Sheet of glass between two chairs.
- Spray bottle of water to spray the underside of the glass.
- Flowers in a cup strategically placed so that they would reflect in the water drops.
- Two light sources on the flowers.
- sheet of blue paper placed on top of the glass (for the blue background).

I took a bunch of pictures (while laying on the ground). I liked this one the best because it was at the right angle to give the droplets more depth and overlap.

Minimal processing.

RawShooter Premium:
- Crop
- Adjust Color Temp / Tint (3100/36)
- Adjust curve/levels to give more tonality
- slight bit of fill light
- batch convert to TIFF

Photoshop Elements:
- resized for submission
- USM
- save to web

Statistics
Place: 161 out of 287
Avg (all users): 5.3422
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1835
Avg (non-participants): 5.5641
Views since voting: 898
Views during voting: 311
Votes: 187
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 04/04/2006 01:53:57 PM
I hope my description handles how I did this shot. I had hoped it would do better but I could tell from the initial vote results that it wasn't... so I turned of the ability to see votes in my profile till the voting was over... now I feel better ;-).
 04/03/2006 12:26:16 AM
This was yours? I love this one. I'm surprised to see it at 5.342. I think you did a great job withit.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/29/2006 01:01:16 AM
I love this as a macro..great colours 9
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 03/26/2006 08:24:15 PM
This is intriguing... how did you do it? upside down plastic cloth?
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