My neighbor actually called me to tell me this was on their front stairs railing on a foggy damp day (last saturday). "We have something you might like to take a picture of" ... so thanks to Matt, Pat, Emily and Lucy ,my reversal ring on my 50mm and my patient wife, dog and baby Ada of course.
Shot is RAW - flipped curve to be reversed in RAW editor for CS2, crop and rotate, Noise Ninja, slight overall Hue/Sat.
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Post challenge - Oh man ... just missed another ribbon!!! ... I knew this would happen. It gives me something for which to continually pursue.
Here's the image I was originally gonna use:
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Place: 4 out of 438 Avg (all users): 6.8263 Avg (commenters): 7.8696 Avg (participants): 6.9052 Avg (non-participants): 6.7320 Views since voting: 5892 Views during voting: 382 Votes: 213 Comments: 37 Favorites: 11 (view)
This should have ribboned..... DEFINITELY.....
Wonderful patterns, yet simple in design.
Almost metallic, but still delicate to look at.
I LOVE this so much it has to go into my favorites..... Right now.....
Wow! I wish this picture was not so good. I gave low grades to the "easy" ones like b&w, sepia and such, but this one, I just can't help myself. 10 dang. How did you put the water on the web?
This is cool! The negative version seems really smooth and elegant. The gradient background has been more or less the same in the original, I guess? The drops look cool at least.
Now this is the best negative image I have seen so far and I've voted on almost 200 entries so far. Looks like small balls of liquid metal suspended from fine wire. Great example of a negative image, best of luck! 10