Not really where I could get firetrucks or police cars, so had to stage my own emergency. Fortunately this was expert editing.
This is a bakers sheet of water (the kind of pan you make biscuits or cookies on). Used a snooted flash off camera set my focus and then blew across the water to make the waves. I next setup a white backdrop and held my hand up, firing the camera with a remote. I dipped my hand in water each time to make sure it had the look of wetness as it emerged from the water.
I then combined the images, draganized the photo and ran through Topaz B&W effects to get the blue color I wanted.
Hope it does well, since I'm posting all this info, I'm bound to look stupid after the fact. :)
5 minutes to rollover and only 35 entries... I could easily brown this one!!!
[Apr. 26th, 2012 12:32:14 AM]
In the off chance anyone cares after the voting is over... here is the pan I used. I carried it to my studio with a container of water and slowly poured it into the pan. I had to level it because my shooting table is not level. :)
As I was taking the shot, I would line up the shot, then move my face to the side of the camera and blow across the water. This was the shot I used...
After scooping out all the water from the pan so I could move the pan (what a chore that was!) I took several shots of my hand in various poses... after dipping in the reclaimed water as stated above.
This is the shot I used for that...
Then it was a matter of removing the hand from the white/grey background and sizing and combining everything just right. I'm amazed at how a little scaling works wonders. I could only do this in Expert Editing of course. But blowing up the water shot and reducing the hand a bit made it look like the person was really under a choppy ocean/lake. IMO anyway.
It's been holding a 6.2ish most of the time after a high of 6.5.
One more day to go.
POST CHALLENGE...
Oh well... foolish me thought I had a top 5 image at the very least. I said I'd look stupid sharing all the details for a mediocre image.
I got that right.
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There is something wrong with the hand and I can't figure out what it is. It is distracting me from really giving a 10. After staring at this for five minutes (and getting the blue cast out of my retinas), I figured it out. The blue is over driven which gives the palm of the hand a spotty appearance and makes the fingers look like sausages. Plus the skin folds in the fingers look distorted and in one case, gone entirely. Still, I like it so a 9 it is.
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