A patriotic bandana was used for the background with water droplets suspended on glass above the bandana displaying the reflections of the bandana. Shot in macro mode at 200mm. This setup was used to simulate a new world order resulting from the war on terrorism. No political views intended!
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this really is an awesome shot ... the composition of the drops and the clarity work really well ... if you play with photoshop or some kind of program like that .. i'd be interested to see a mock up of the actual magazine idea that you were thinking with text placement and all :) - good to see you back and keep up the great work :)
Excellent shot, having done this type of shot before myself, I can appreciate the amount of effort and setup that goes into it. Id challenge any of the others here who posted its a rip off, cliche, or a Setz clone...to try to duplicate it with the wonderful results you got... nice work. :)
I just had to comment after reading the rant thread. In viewing the results for this challenge I found this entry to be one of the most interesting. I really like the idea of using bubbles to capture detail in anything, even the American flag (no offense intended). In this case the flag is not 'in your face' and therefore non-imposing or intrusive.
A beautiful image and executed well. It is a good shot, but you are gonna get trashed by some people for the flag theme and "copying" setzler's classic shot.
Gotta love plagarism. You could of at least tried to make this picture slightly different to "Liberty and Justice", unfortunately for yourself I regard originality and some self-creativity quite highly when voting photos. This is almost an EXACT rip-off of possibly the most popular photo on DPChallenge.com
SHAME ON YOU.
I looked at this image quite a while. Technically it's very good and so is the appeal. My only problem with it is that water drops are over-used in our challenges. I probably would have scored it higher had I never seen this idea before. It's creative but not unique. 6
If you are a newbie on this site, then excellent work. If not, I think we have had enough of those photos. I give you the benefit of the doubt in voting.
Wow. Of couse, it's been done before, but that doesn't mean that it can't be done again. I like the wavy look and the composition that anchors everything towards the right bottom corner. Can't find fault with this at all. 10
I'm really impressed by the choice of this, although after "liquid" I admit I've seen enough liquids for a while. I'm not sure if they'd use this particular image or not because of how people would react, but it's well-shot and having the real flag blurred in the background adds interest.
Gorgeous use of this type of photo. Excellent example. I'm not sure it really fits the magazine, but it's very well done. I think it could be the cover of a magazine just not necessarily the one you picked. beautifully done though!
Nice take on an overdone technique. Seems to be a little abstract for the cover of US News and World Report. I could very definately be wrong since I don't look at every cover, but don't they usually put on shots of world leaders currently in the news?
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