Pretty straight forward shot. The spoon was attached to a small lightbox on the left and I used my free hand to dripped some honey on the spoon and yes that's honey coming from the topr. The shutter speed I used created that motion blur. While I thought it looked interesting the way it came out I figured I threw away some points as these types of shots typically demand perfection to do well.
Editing steps:
- Neatimage
- Cloned out dust, specks and some minor hotspots.
- Tone mapping applied just to the honey areas
- Color Replacement Tool used to make honey color consistent.
- Blur tool used on the spoon.
- Noise Reduction Filter applied to whole image.
- Dodged/Burned in some spots mainly the honey and frame edges.
- Tone mapping applied again just on the honey areas.
- Selective Color to lighten the blacks.
- Channel Mixer to desaturate spoon.
- S-Curves applied to provide some contrast.
- Resized for the web
- USM used to provide local contrast enhancement.
- Smart Sharpen
*Post*
Wow. I didn't expect this. I thought for sure aimeethetoo's and muur88's entries would have finished ahead of mine. All I can say is thank you.
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What makes this shot for me is the smooth, warmth of the brown background and lighting with the color of the honey...superb! You did what I could only attempt. Congrats!
Nice on Yanko! One of my top ones...hm....the competition between our teams is going to be tough...Both of our teams had top 10 entries...though ours were 9th and 10th and yours were...well, better :)
Nice bg color & tone | Excellent golden tone to the honey | Focus is very good but not great | Wish the shutter speed had been higher (the motion blur seems out of place with the rest of the image)
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