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Untitled #6
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Water III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Olympus E-1
Lens: Olympus 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Zuiko Digital Zoom
Location: Brooklyn, NY 11201
Date: Apr 12, 2008
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200 second
Galleries: Animals, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 13, 2008

 Photo:
An Elinchrom 250R flash head bounced off of a white card behind the fish tank. I used everyday aluminum foil as a side fill, since anything in front of the fish tank glass would reflect back at the camera. And one very brave fish who is now living a life of leisure with her friends in my kitchen overlooking the garden.

This is the original uncropped capture after RAW processing


Photoshop:
Process in RAW with white balance, exposure, clarify, sharpen, vibrance

Overall Curves Adjustment layer with no changes other than using Multiply Blending Mode to build saturation and contrast

Calculations using the Add Blending Mode to create an accurate mask for cleaning up bubbles and the junk in the water (my basement is rather dusty and the water kept getting filled with it)

Replaced the plain white card background with a clean even background

Some spotting to clean up what the overall masking missed

Statistics
Place: 20 out of 207
Avg (all users): 6.5057
Avg (commenters): 7.8947
Avg (participants): 6.3000
Avg (non-participants): 6.6415
Views since voting: 1869
Views during voting: 439
Votes: 176
Comments: 23
Favorites: 6 (view)

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AuthorThread
 04/23/2008 03:34:34 AM
2 for animal cruelty. 4 for technicals.

04/21/2008 06:37:39 AM
WOW! This is another one that if it were me picking, it would have won a ribbon. This is so amazing! Flawlessly executed! 6.5 is certainly a nice score -- but I like the score your commenters gave you much better. . .it's much closer to what it deserves!

 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/20/2008 04:46:49 PM
Wow. Amazing and very creative.
 04/20/2008 10:33:05 AM
Love it - very well taken and presented.

Only slight nitpicks are that ideally the fish would have faced towards the viewer (since it is the main splash of colour and focal point, and also a shot like this deserves a title, to either explain what is happenin (literally) or to draw the viewer in to your chain of thought and get their emotional buy-in whether it is wonder, excitement, humour or anything else.

Great shot though.
 04/19/2008 10:50:14 AM
How many takes?? ;) Must be inverted... I'll check back.
 04/19/2008 09:42:18 AM
Such a fantastic swirl in the water. The little fish is a bit too dark to really make this pic pop as much as some of the past versions of leaping goldfish but I love the swirl!
 04/18/2008 07:30:22 PM
Wow!
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 04/18/2008 07:05:41 AM
Oh wow, this is almost certainly going to blue methinks. Brilliant.
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 04/17/2008 06:39:07 PM
how did you get the fish to cooperate? lol
 04/17/2008 10:24:57 AM
I've seen gators jumping out of water that high, but what did you lure that goldfish with?
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 04/17/2008 03:55:29 AM
poor fishy, how many times did you take him out of the water just to throw him back in again?
good attempt, not enough light on the fish and the background, too many refractions in the water, crop at top is a little close
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 04/16/2008 07:30:25 PM
How did you do this?!! (8)
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 04/16/2008 03:27:35 PM
very nice capture
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 04/16/2008 09:31:08 AM
Reminds me of the fish in some of the Dr. Seuss books. Very nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/15/2008 12:09:38 PM
Poor fish, I wonder how many takes it took??? :-)
 04/15/2008 08:35:43 AM
Looks like you twirled the water with your finger then snapped the goldfish as he was near the vortex you created. Then flipped the pic upside down? Yeah? Great effect.
 04/15/2008 07:32:08 AM
Thats simply perfect, very well done, 10
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 04/14/2008 06:51:25 AM
So, the mystery here is--is the fish under or above water? My guess is under, and the water was stirred. Hopefully your fish is still alive!
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 04/14/2008 06:51:06 AM
Points for the capture at the perfect instant. I wish the fish were PPd to be brighter orange all over instead of just the tail. Amazing focus.
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 04/13/2008 09:39:39 PM
Nice job capturing this instant! Next time try putting a flash at the belly of the fish to light it up more. Did you shoot this reversed and then turn it upside-down?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/13/2008 09:19:18 PM
What a great capture!
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 04/13/2008 09:14:15 PM
Very cool shot.
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 04/13/2008 08:34:39 PM
well done...this should be in the top 3...hope the fish survived the trauma! 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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