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I am grape, hear me roar
I am grape, hear me roar
snaffles


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Challenge: Purple IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D7100
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens
Location: Chateau Snaffles
Date: Aug 15, 2014
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Aug 17, 2014

 I really wanted to do a shot like this again, but better. Think I succeeded :-)

Camera on tripod, flash up. Martini glass on a small table, 2l of grape soda, a cherry to anchor the cocktail umbrella, and oh yes a frozen slug of grape soda dropped in - many times before it melted - to create the splash. Yes, that poor little blue cocktail brolly took a beating :-)

Note to self: good idea to wear old clothes, have some old towels around for cleanup, a thick plastic dropsheet over everything, and a plastic-bag snood over camera body to protect buttons :-)

pp: shot RAW, crop, brightness/contrast, vibrance/saturation, dodge, minor cloning out of small and oof bubbles. Used blue and violet filters at 25% each, as grape soda tends to look pinkish when in flight.


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Place: 15 out of 74
Avg (all users): 5.9195
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.7297
Avg (non-participants): 6.0600
Views since voting: 600
Views during voting: 156
Votes: 87
Comments: 8
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Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 08/26/2014 06:09:54 PM
Nice stop action, love how the umbrella almost seems distorted.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z6II
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S
 08/26/2014 04:16:21 PM
Amazing image, can't even think of how to create this, the solid base of that liquid is wonderful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/26/2014 07:12:51 AM
Commenting only-

These are always fun shots.. I would love to play with this kind of photography some day
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 08/24/2014 01:54:40 PM
Quite like this. Only a personal opinion, but I would like to crop away the right hand third of the photo to further accentuate an abstract look (so that the drinking glass becomes less obvious).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2014 12:50:18 PM
A fabulous abstract
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 08/22/2014 08:43:38 PM
Cool looking, but I'd like a better feel for what the heck is going on here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D600
Nikon MF Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI
 08/21/2014 05:11:59 PM
stunning.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 08/20/2014 06:52:29 AM
took me a while to work out the blue thing was a cocktail umbrella. I think it would be better without it, what do you think? Nice shapes in the splash.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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