What a mess, and what a blast doing this challenge.
When I first thought of my idea, I didn't realize what fun I have, and how many takes I took, until I got it right.
I tried many differant colored cards for the background, but the natural color one seemed to work best. I also liked the idea of the honey trailing from a flower. I thought this would look good, so that is why I have picked this one to enter in the challenge.
I went through a whole bottle of honey, plus many sheets of differant types of card, but it was worth it.
I also used a light underneath the card, but that caused a problems with some of the card buckling, and so had to take all photos quite quickly, to avoid this. It was fun, and hope you enjoy the result.
ps; Thanks everyone, for the wonderful comments and votes, re this image.....
I don't know if you know, but I am a ticketwriter, as that was my career before computers come on the scene......
I then went back to tech school as an adult, and learned computer graphics, re Corel Draw.....
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Awesome, Shez!!! 5th place! Woo hoo!!! Great picture, and I can just imagine how much fun it was to do - thanks for sharing that in the photographer's comments. Way to go!
you've really done an excellent and imaginative design here ... how clever ... it has great composition, colours, and EVERYTHING!! ...
and wot a great xmas present coming 5th ... well deserved ...
YEAH sister!! We share top 5 in Sticky!! HAHA - a whole bottle of honey. I'm sure the bees would be proud to have contributed to your work of art! Woooohoooo nicely done! Congratulations on an honorable mention!! Merry Christmas Sweetie Pie (and to Peter & the fam too!).
You should try to make a custom font like this! The letter work is spot on.
You went a bit too far on the sharpening or contrast - sorta pushed it over the edge, I have a bad tendency to sometimes do that too, I usually reign it in before its too late. The organic element of the honey begs for the image to be more natural, to me anyway. Try the high-pass technique next time as that leaves you a layer to play with in the end to adjust sharpness if color tweaking has brought out harshness. I like the composition, though the flower comes off as out of place at first. IMHO, a more traditional 'bee flower' (whatever that is, right? lol) would have been a better choice.
Overall, nicely lit & executed with a few detractions during post-processing -- 7 --
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