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Challenge: Rainbow (Advanced Editing V)
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Camera: Sony DSC-V3
Lens: Sony VCL-M3358 58mm Close-up Lens
Location: Studio
Date: Oct 20, 2007
Aperture: f3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 21, 2007

After reading about rainbows and moonbows, I wondered if you could "make" a rainbow using a black light. Turns out, you get wildly varied spectrums with banding in between, due to certain colors not being represented via black light. This is water drops sitting on an oil-covered CD, black light hovering, with the rainbow coming from a reflected refraction from another CD held up closer to the black light.

I really don't even care how this does - I just had so much fun experimenting and I want to people to seeeeeeeeeeeee. :)

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 93
Avg (all users): 5.5950
Avg (commenters): 5.4286
Avg (participants): 5.5217
Avg (non-participants): 5.6169
Views since voting: 6835
Views during voting: 351
Votes: 200
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/26/2007 09:57:47 PM
I really lke the riot of rainbow colors your submission has - nicely photographed!
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10/26/2007 02:26:39 PM
Out of focus.
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10/25/2007 05:45:52 AM
the recurring shapes of the droplets is pretty cool but the image is a bit too grainy for my taste - also, there seem to a bit too much going on in the background that takes away from teh more uniform and interesting droplets in the foreground
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10/22/2007 04:05:17 PM
The grainy background keeps pulling my eyes away from the middle of your image - which I find the most interesting. I like the pastel rainbow colors.
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10/22/2007 02:36:44 PM
cool, but would have been nice to have a wider depth of field! :)
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10/22/2007 08:27:33 AM
Like the bubbles and the reflection but the background seems cluttered and distracting.
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10/22/2007 07:18:13 AM
I like the detail on the droplets in the middle. The large one in the back is a bit distracting.
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10/22/2007 02:54:35 AM
Good composition and choice of subject, however I'm not convinced by your jpeg compression - it does seem a little pixellated and lacking in definition.
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