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Challenge: Still Life With Motion (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Melbourne Australia
Date: Sep 24, 2007
Aperture: F5.0
ISO: 1100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Sep 23, 2007

 The Image: My wife went to Sydney for work for a few days, so I got away with a major crime...water all over our best table and floor. I guess, while the cat is away, the mice play!

I used my D200 on a tripod with a watering bucket over the flowers and shot at 5fps. The light was all natural, no flash. If anything, it has quite a harsh light that looks like I used flash which spoils it for me.

EDIT: Levels, USM, som d and b, blur, clonesd out some minor spots, Noise Ninja, some selective sharpening.

I really wanted an old world look, but the water kind of spoiled all of that. Once everything was wet, it took away the softness.

So I did a layer and applied gaussian blur, then took down the opacity. This gave me a nicer softness with all of the contrast. I like the overall result.

PREDICTION: If I get to 6.2 I will be happy. It might be a love-it-or-hate-it image.

POST: This was a terrible image for me to enter. While the idea was OK, the execution was terrible. I agree with yanko on this, that I should have either frozen the water or gone for a longer exposure to make the wayer a mist. Like this, ity is lukewarm and lukewarm sucks. Once I had a good look at it, I wouldn't have given an image like this more than 5. A real learning experience for me...

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon
09/30/2007 09:11:16 PM
Good idea. I think you would have had more success if you either went with a longer exposure so the water looks smoother or a shorter exposure time to freeze the water completely. Either one would have carried more wow factor than the inbetween state you went with. Just a thought.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D50
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 09/29/2007 06:43:07 PM
i love the motion
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
 09/28/2007 08:54:33 PM
Lovely shot. Put a smile on my face
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 09/27/2007 02:35:46 PM
Must've been a messy cleanup. I like the action of the water yet everything else is still. I might have had a touch more negative space to the right or left. Just my taste though. ;~D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 09/26/2007 05:50:32 PM
Love your idea!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 09/26/2007 10:20:26 AM
Good handling of the spray without the flowers moving all over, but the flowers are pretty blown out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Kodak Z612
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro AF for Canon
 09/24/2007 09:15:18 PM
very nicely done. nice choice of colors.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 09/24/2007 06:59:39 PM
I think this would look nicer if the stream water wasn't so concentrated; if it looked more like rain and less like a shower.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 09/24/2007 06:30:50 AM
very cool concept - the flowers seem a bit blown out however. the lighting on the vase and lower portion of the image is right on the money. more balance could have really made this outstanding
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
 09/24/2007 12:37:24 AM
Nice title, looks drenched, saturated. psart 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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