Five minute setup. I sat the glass on a cardboard tube and placed a white foamcore board behind at an angle (for the gradient). I lit the board with a utility lamp which has a natural yellow tint to it.
Post production is mainly levels, color shift, and saturation. I wish I could fix the pixelation of the stem, but the only way to do it in basic is with gaussian blur and the amount required was softening the upper part too much. Hopefully I don't get canned on that. It looks ok at 1900x1200, but I'm not sure how ugly it will be at 1024x768.
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Based on the thumb, I expected this to be a ho-hum-been-there-and-done-that image. What a pleasant surprise. Colors and contrast help distinguyish it from the genre. Nice crop with thoughtful foreground/background shapes. Great fit for the challenge theme. Very well done. Among my top picks.
I'm not sure what's wrong with this photo. Oversharpening? Over-contrast? The jagged lines, color banding, and dirt/imperfections in the glass keep this from being a really great photo.
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