After this... I want a macro lens!!!
Clear bowl atop gold reflector inside larger bowl...
Golden beads on the bottom of the bowl filled with water...
Dropped water into bowl with syringe.... take photo and hope I catch something decent...
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photofilter - warm #85
virtual photographer - glamor
dragonizer
crop
neat image
save for web
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first off i'de like to congratulate youon a great image. The first thing i thought when i saw this was it accomplishes the task of "gold". Then i saw the flowing ripples and the stopped motion and thought this shot has potential. One thing you should work on with water drops ( i realize they are hard without a macro lens, i use my 17-40 most of the time) is trying to get a more interesting drop. For instance and image like this
also, why so many editing steps, everything seems ok until you used a dragonizer... why? this image in my opinion did not need to be dragonized, when i think of gold i think bright... when you draganize something it adds grain and decreases the "glamour" of it. Also i think you used a little bit too much neatimage, the background looks unreal instead of shallow DOF.
overall an excelent image and well deserving of the score it got :)
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