Thanks to Tranquil for helping out and turning green.
I've worked on droping shots before where the item is dropped or sometimes thrown into the water. Many of them, I was the dropper. But for this challenge I thought I'd try it myself and with some help, I did it. I used food coloring to make the water green and I know many of you might not like it, I do. It took a lot of tries to get this right. there were twolight sources for this:
- A 250 watt worklight being reflected off of the background (white paper)
- a 60 watt reflector bulb light placed at an angle underneath and to the right of the glass
This was taken in RAW because even though I was shooting with custom white balance, there would be a lot to be changed.
Post Processing:
Digital Photo Professional
- curves adjustment
- brightness adjustment
- contrast raised
Converted to jpg and into PS
- Hue for more "sour apple" green
- saturation raised just a tad
Neat Image
- Remove all noise
Back to PS
- Unsharp Mask
My reason for doing neat image before sharpening was because i didn't want to loose the deatail of the water and the apple. I know the apple is not perfectly green and I know I will get critisized for it looking like a pear.
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A very exciting action capture and you get credit for the good presentation. Now, because this challenge is "apple" I have beem able to identify the fruit. Otherwise it would have taken me a little more time as it is not readilly apparant to identify it. 6
Nice highlited picture. Not easy to time correctly! I don't see this happening on parties though. The clue/or plot is not very strong. The picture is quite nice though!
I love it. Very clear with a lot of energy. Only change I can think of is a slice of a red apple might have made it even more striking. But that's just personal taste. Great shot. My top 5.
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