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Challenge: Black and White in Color (Advanced Editing IV*)
Collection: Photo Illustration
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: My sun room again.
Date: Jul 23, 2006
Aperture: f5.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 3200
Galleries: Black and White, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 23, 2006

 This is my most blatant use of commonly used tehnique and subject yet. The title is a double entendre referring to the elements that tend to make for a high-scoring DPC image: Focus, a clean background, blends and nice tones, simplicity, and a frozen moment in time with a liquid always helps ... Not to mention meeting the challenge (arguably as always). This was sort of an experiment just to see how it would look. 1) focus camera using lens cap in center / above glass ... 2) set to manual to stop autofocus. 3) Take test shots to make sure settings are right 4) Set camera on remote activated timer. 5) Drop at the right time. The sunlight was strong enough to have the shutter pretty fast and allow me to capture this frozen moment.
Glass was placed in front of my sliding glass window (actually the window was open as if anyone cares since the window was dirty) ... with the usual frosted glass tabletop piece standing behind the subject. Sleective sharpening, cleaning / removing drops, crop/rotate, cleaned up ice a bit.

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 263
Avg (all users): 6.3152
Avg (commenters): 7.5714
Avg (participants): 6.0795
Avg (non-participants): 6.4379
Views since voting: 1597
Views during voting: 391
Votes: 257
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 08/02/2006 12:32:20 AM
congrats on your top 20 finish. very underrated!
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 08/01/2006 08:31:16 PM
Very nice stop motion! Congratulations on your top 20 finish.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/01/2006 04:52:34 PM
sweet
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 08/01/2006 06:32:21 AM
I like it a lot, although I would have liked to see more on top. The image feels a bit too tight. Is it ice that you tossed into the glass?
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 07/31/2006 08:55:44 PM
This is a nice shot. I think it fits the challenge with a grayscale look to it.
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 07/31/2006 07:48:16 PM
And it works...
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 07/31/2006 06:18:14 AM
The water level in the glass belies the angle of the glass (should be spilling over!) This is the only fault I can see in this fantastic image - crystal (sic) clear, beautifully lit, sharp as and great compo.
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 07/30/2006 05:19:24 PM
Nicely captured.
Focus is superb.
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 07/28/2006 04:13:45 PM
Love this one. It is so clean and pure looking
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 07/28/2006 08:49:31 AM
Very nice. What is that thing?
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 07/27/2006 07:00:51 PM
nice
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 07/27/2006 06:39:20 PM
IMHO I think a black background would improve your score with voters in this challenge.
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 07/27/2006 08:52:14 AM
i like the lighting and clarity , nice capture.
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 07/26/2006 09:02:09 AM
im loving the droplets of water that formed...
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 07/25/2006 10:24:44 PM
superb...one of the better ones in this challenge 9
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 07/25/2006 10:01:48 PM
Great Job!
 07/25/2006 09:37:21 PM
Nicely done. Angling the glass is a neat touch. It's a shame that the shutter speed required for a shot like this forces some of the droplets out of focus, but I'm not sure what you can do about that.


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