7 roller bearing balls inside a custom cylinder with the title of the challenge (printed inverted). A small cap at the top with the same text to hide the camera lens. Three sources of light, two lamps for the cylinder and one lamp over the bearing balls. Then cropped, levels, sharpen edges and a thin black border.
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Place: 1 out of 260 Avg (all users): 7.1443 Avg (commenters): 8.6154 Avg (participants): 7.1138 Avg (non-participants): 7.1667 Views since voting: 7568 Views during voting: 428 Votes: 291 Comments: 73 Favorites: 36 (view)
awesome photo. would love it if you did a tutorial breaking down your explanation of how you did it.. maybe even show some shots from a 3rd person point of view
I'm sorry, I just do not recall seeing this during the challenge, I'm certain I would have remembered such a magnificent shot which would have got one of the very few tens I've ever given. Anyway, very well done - a truly deserved winner - such care in the setup has paid dividends.
Okay the setup here is ridiculous, I scored you a 7 during the challenge, but clearly without stopping to think about how challenging the creation of this photo must have been.
If I had thought it through you would have got a 9 or a 10 from me.
I would apologise, but you've got a blue ribbon for your troubles, so I don't think you are feeling particularly horrible about it.
Congratulations on a brilliant effort.
Congratulations, anireno! My sentiments perfectly mirror what samtrundle already said. On more consideration, I agree that this was quite an impressive and creative setup. Good luck!
Ah, I finally figured out your setup. You have highly polished "ball" bearings, not "roller" bearings that are cylindrical with flat ends. (Does not diminish my opinion of your photo in any way, however.)
Excellent imaginative shot, and a well-deserved win!
Wow, a truly amazing creation! I kept staring at this photo during the voting period trying to figure out how you'd done it. Glad I gave you my highest score and congratulations on your ribbon!
Okay the setup here is ridiculous, I scored you a 7 during the challenge, but clearly without stopping to think about how challenging the creation of this photo must have been.
If I had thought it through you would have got a 9 or a 10 from me.
I would apologise, but you've got a blue ribbon for your troubles, so I don't think you are feeling particularly horrible about it.
Thank you all for comments. I´m very happy with my first ribbon. I´m sorry because I don´t have a shot of my original set up, but I´m going to try to explain. It´s easy but I´m a bit perfectionist and it took me near three hours to achieve the final shot.
First of all I printed a sheet with the title of the challenge. this was done using Powerpoint (for example) and then printed reversed (with the aid of a postscript printer driver)
Text This printed text was folded and glued carefully to achieve a perfect transition in the words
Cylinder Still we have a problem beacuse if we take a photo with this setup and look at the center of the balls we can see the body of the rebel
close-up These are the kind of details that scores down our shots in this site. to fix this we can use this close-up to create a mask for our lens and put it at the top of the cylinder
With this trick we can hide our camera "completely".
This is a shot without backlighting
And this is the final shot with backlighting (the setup over a glass table) and without processing.
Cngratulations on your blue. A most amazing image with meticulous lighting and the detail involved is indeed astonishing. a great feat for basic editing.
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This is an excellent image. Nice lighting, focus, symmetry. I like the added touch of the text on the balls - as well as the added design formed from the reflections.
This is a great picture. I can't help but listen to the echo in my mind which says 'Lucky seven, lucky seven, lucky seven,...' all the time. Very nice symmetric composition, flawless I'd say. The reflections make a nice star. The border is too close to the bullets for my taste. The picture would have been better without it. A stunning shot. I hope you'll get rewarded for it :) 10.
My top pick for the challenge. The image features a great concept & flawless execution. It took a couple of minutes to figure out how you carried it out. I think I got it figured out;-). Great work.
Saw this one in the validation section, so thought I'd come comment since I really like it. I love the reflections, and the lighting is beautiful. The set up is perfect, and I like the pattern that the dark reflections of the balls make. a neat star. background is perfect, and this was simply very well done. VERY well done. Haven't seen too many 10's in this challenge, but I think this will be on the front page with the 7 frames shot. Congrats and good luck. ~Heather~
Rather than hitting us over the head with "Lucky 7", perhaps plain white would have worked better. Still, this is visually interesting overall and I'll give you a lucky 7 for it.
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