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Dont burst my bubble !
Dont burst my bubble !
David Newland


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: My back garden !
Date: Aug 15, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/800th
Date Uploaded: Aug 25, 2006

 Always loved the way bubbles reflect images in a spectrum of vivid colours.
They also leave a great \" ghost \" shortly after they burst for a split second ( literally !! )
They arent the easiest things in the world to work with, but with a little patience and playing with different apetures, shutter speeds and focus I was happy with this capture of the moment a bubble burst and slowly begins to disintegrate

Cropped, resized, sharpened and curve tool used.


Post Challenge :

Ouch !
Didnt do so well this time !
But still had fun making it anyway ;)
For those of you interested in how I did it, basically I just used manual focus and burst mode following the bubble around until it burst ! I have an entire series but felt this was the best of the lot. For more bubble fun I uploaded some to my ftp site at //www.davidnewland.net/Bubbles.zip

And for those of you who said you didnt like the background, you need a dark background to make the bubble stand out. I tried ones with the bubbles against the sky and it really doesnt have the same presence.
I decided on this size crop as to me if it's cropped any more you lose the sense of perspective.
Thanks for those who liked it. And congrats as always to the ribbons !

Statistics
Place: 341 out of 684
Avg (all users): 5.6008
Avg (commenters): 7.1364
Avg (participants): 5.5500
Avg (non-participants): 5.7925
Views since voting: 747
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 253
Comments: 28
Favorites: 0

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 09/09/2006 04:58:55 AM
Thanks levyj413,
Am flattered you asked for a validation !!
I'm not sure about the inverted reflection either.. UNLESS somehow the face of the bubble is reflecting the image from the back of the bubble since the top of the bubble has burst and possibly changed the rules of it's reflection ?
I'm probably wrong though !
Anyone else ?

09/08/2006 07:25:35 PM
I really liked this shot - voted it a 7. I also requested the DQ validation, because I didn't get the half-inverted reflection. I was delighted when it was validated, though, because it meant you'd caught something really intriguing! Hope it didn't cause you too much stress. I had someone comment on mine suggesting I'd faked something, so I was glad to get it validated.

Then I came looking for it after the challenge was over.

Any idea what's going there? Do your other shots have that effect?
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 07:48:12 PM
sweet bubble...nice reflection too...how long did it take for you to do that? 10
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 09/07/2006 06:41:08 PM
Nice timing on this!
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 09/07/2006 04:11:52 PM
Love the reflection in the bubble.
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 09/07/2006 03:17:23 PM
i wont..6
 09/07/2006 09:49:20 AM
Excellent idea! Love it :-)
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 09/07/2006 09:38:41 AM
WOW. You caught this bubble right as it was popping? I can't wait to see how fast the shutter was! I'm not understanding why the reflection is partly inverted, though.

I hope you tell us how you did it in your photog's comments. :)
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 09/07/2006 08:25:27 AM
Wow, perfect timing on this shot.9
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 09/06/2006 04:31:28 PM
Nice fun image. Notice this had to be validated. Interested because I understand the reflections of bubbles so didn't even think twice about it. Those type are fun to play with. Just doesn't hold enough intrest. Maybe if it wasn't center framed. and maybe if it was larger in the frame.
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 09/05/2006 07:20:24 PM
Interesting reflection
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 09/05/2006 10:30:10 AM
holy crap!! this is unreal! what awesome timing. how many bottles of bubbles did you go through before getting this :) 10!
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 09/03/2006 02:59:09 PM
-WOW! Tricky business!
-Like the colors!!
-Great timing
-Score: 7
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 09/03/2006 02:04:12 PM
I had to look two times to see that the bubble was busting.
Nice capture.
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 09/03/2006 01:49:30 PM
I don't like it but can certainly respect the difficlty of capturing this photo. Nice work! 7
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 09/03/2006 07:33:16 AM
oh my gosh. extra points for difficulty. 8
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 09/02/2006 02:29:51 PM
wow.... great timing ..10
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 09/02/2006 11:37:15 AM
Perfect timing! I like how the refraction/reflection splits the view half upside down, half rightside up. You could crop even closer as the background doesn't contribute a lot.
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 09/02/2006 06:42:02 AM
Tricky shot to set up, i would have liked a more interesting background.
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 09/02/2006 01:47:22 AM
great shot. a tighter crop might have worked better
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 09/02/2006 01:01:37 AM
I just realized this bubble is bursting before my eyes, awesome! Bumping all the way up :)
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 09/01/2006 04:58:20 PM
Interesting idea.
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 09/01/2006 12:50:12 PM
wow that is really nice , we will burts your bubble any way
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 09/01/2006 08:48:22 AM
Can't wait to hear the story of this one. Benefit of doubt you'll be validated (i'm assuming they'll ask). 7
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 09/01/2006 02:34:56 AM
Well caught.
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 08/31/2006 10:16:42 PM
wow, looks like you captured this when it just burst...amazing...bg is a little distracting
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 08/31/2006 09:09:25 PM
WOW! Ribbon worthy? I dunno, Ive only seen 6%...but this is an amazing shot. 10.
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 08/31/2006 08:26:36 PM
unusual,but effective very matrix....
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