The final result of a week's worth of experiments with trying to use luminous backlighting and key lights to produce a neon effect. I am probably going to get hammered for the use of the photoshop effects, but they were part of the previsualization of this image and they are 100% legal in basic challenge: NO filters were used, and no layers with any pixel information.
Exposed cobalt blue nestling bowls in a sink full of soapsuds. Strong backlight projected through the suds and back up into the bowls. Key light to produce the specular highlights.
Photoshopped with a curves layer to radically alter the densities and throw the colors, this layer then faded to admit some background through. Very minor tweak of hue/saturation to finished composite, some gaussian blur added.
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interesting, but tough shot, robt. i scored it a 7 for the immediate visual impact. i have a pretty decent monitor, and i'm picking up a disconcerting amount of banding, though...
The visible layering of the colors here is an attempt to create a "neon" effect. So it was intentional. Something new for me. Clearly not appreciated by the voters, though.
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