I've been thinking about this shot for over 9 months now. Hasn't come out the way i was hoping it would but it's not bad nevertheless i find. there are issues of sharpness here but i was so hard to do this in the first place that I won't complain. It took 4.5 hours to take this shot and wouldn't have been possible without labuda, obviously.
There's a piece of glass between the flame and the water. The water was poured from the top and the flame was shot from the bottom, from a "windex" type spray container, containing kerosene. In order to get the water to have this blue colour to it, we surrounded the whole set up with blue cardboard and had 4 flashes pointing as them. The flashes were in ziplock bads obviously.
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This is such a great photo. Once I read how it was done, I am even more impressed.
Color, saturation, hue, focus, depth of field, lighting, brightness, contrast are all excellent.
I'm not sure why you presented it the way you did, but I think that is the only thing that kept you from a ribbon.
I really think the horizontal presentation cost you a few points. Everything else is just amazing. I think black0star got it right. Flames on top, with a supporting column of water, would have been magic.
This is a great concept and it looks like a pretty interesting setup. A pretty amazing result I must say. It's soo close but It needs something IMO - perhaps a bit more clarity in the water. I really do like it though. 8
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