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Hydro vs Pyro
Hydro vs Pyro
smyk


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: School Days: Chemistry (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: labuda's place
Date: Sep 12, 2006
Aperture: 16
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Macro, Studio
Date Uploaded: Sep 12, 2006

 I've been thinking about this shot for over 9 months now. Hasn't come out the way i was hoping it would but it's not bad nevertheless i find. there are issues of sharpness here but i was so hard to do this in the first place that I won't complain. It took 4.5 hours to take this shot and wouldn't have been possible without labuda, obviously.

There's a piece of glass between the flame and the water. The water was poured from the top and the flame was shot from the bottom, from a "windex" type spray container, containing kerosene. In order to get the water to have this blue colour to it, we surrounded the whole set up with blue cardboard and had 4 flashes pointing as them. The flashes were in ziplock bads obviously.


Statistics
Place: 15 out of 90
Avg (all users): 6.3864
Avg (commenters): 7.2941
Avg (participants): 5.9429
Avg (non-participants): 6.4432
Views since voting: 1370
Views during voting: 502
Votes: 308
Comments: 22
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 06/23/2007 11:10:29 PM
Ezcellent image here and love the sharp contrast that you have captured with this shot.....
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 09/25/2006 05:10:21 PM
Critique Club Review:

This is such a great photo. Once I read how it was done, I am even more impressed.

Color, saturation, hue, focus, depth of field, lighting, brightness, contrast are all excellent.

I'm not sure why you presented it the way you did, but I think that is the only thing that kept you from a ribbon.

I really think the horizontal presentation cost you a few points. Everything else is just amazing. I think black0star got it right. Flames on top, with a supporting column of water, would have been magic.

Excellent photo!
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 09/21/2006 12:35:44 PM
Excellent shot. Congrats on your high finish!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/19/2006 01:43:29 PM
I don't know why, but I really like this one.
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 09/19/2006 01:09:31 PM
Fascinating shot. Nice colors.
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 09/18/2006 04:13:06 PM
This is a great concept and it looks like a pretty interesting setup. A pretty amazing result I must say. It's soo close but It needs something IMO - perhaps a bit more clarity in the water. I really do like it though. 8
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 09/18/2006 06:43:50 AM
Nice vortex effect you created here...
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 09/17/2006 07:11:45 PM
very cool
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 09/16/2006 11:33:33 PM
love the way the picture ripples out
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 09/15/2006 11:06:13 PM
spectacular...great colours...perhaps a little blurry, but otherwise impactful 8
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 09/15/2006 09:36:56 PM
It will be interesting to see how this one was done. 9
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 09/15/2006 07:23:43 AM
this picture looked better to me with the flames on top (turned my laptop sideways haha) i still like it your way too =)
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 09/15/2006 01:07:14 AM
awesome contrast
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 09/14/2006 06:41:48 PM
Great picture...how was this done?
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 09/14/2006 05:18:26 PM
I vote a 10+++ Great work. I hope you place first in the challenge! You deserve it!
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 09/14/2006 10:13:36 AM
Brilliant, 10/10 +fav
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 09/13/2006 07:36:54 PM
Very nice colors and textures!
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 09/13/2006 06:05:32 PM
Nice imagery nice colours good seperation.needs something though.
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 09/13/2006 09:12:14 AM
Looks interesting - I'm curious, what exactly are we looking at?
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 09/13/2006 06:30:13 AM
Interesting colours there. I imagine it is a gass stream igniting at the surface - of meant to be.
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 09/13/2006 04:07:06 AM
Fascinating. Great idea.
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 09/13/2006 02:40:40 AM
A clever interpretation of the theme
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