Notice that the tulip is a print of my very first entry
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Post: Didn't expect this to do so well, the refraction looks quite odd... Thanks for the votes and comments, folks!
Here is, as promised, the setup:
Further instructions: Keep the room as dark as possible. Press the shutter when the drop looks like this
, then you have a good chance to come up with a drop like in my final shot.
Feel free to PM me if you have questions.
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Place: 2 out of 207 Avg (all users): 7.2384 Avg (commenters): 8.4211 Avg (participants): 7.0735 Avg (non-participants): 7.3462 Views since voting: 9156 Views during voting: 410 Votes: 172 Comments: 57 Favorites: 25 (view)
Wow! You passed your dream score! How often does THAT happen! But it is absolutely stunning. I'm surprised you didn't get the overall score that your comments gave you :) Congratulations!
Absolutely stunning on how this came out. The clarity of the tulip in the droplet and the droplet itself are amazing! This was my favorite entry of all of them. Beautiful work!
Oliver, you are really on a roll lately. You smashed your dream score out of the water I see, no pun intended. This is a very interesting shot. The tulip almost looks like it is in a mirror instead of a refracted drop. I don't think the refracted drop looks odd at all, though the tiny stem portion coming out of the faucet does give me pause. It's so minute that it doesn't detract, however.
It took me a little while to work out that the picture in the drop is a tulip. I like the shape of the drop and the bright oranges vs the grey, monochromatic tap.
Excellent drop capture! I like the way you composed this with the faucet. I wonder if a blue background behind the refracted subject might have added some additional interesting color in the drop (but that's just my curiosity playing with an already great shot). Good luck, I'm sure you're doing very well with this one.
This is a really killer image. Even the sharpness of the faucet is nice. I like the discovery of what makes your background hidden in the drop. Really nice--one of my top 6 in the challenge.
A more interesting execution of the cliche water drop. This is punchy and graphical with a delectable quality through colour and clarity. I'd like to have seen a more identifiable flower form (tulip?) in the droplet and composition is bottom-heavy, but this will surely appeal to the smooth-centric voters here at DPC! You may end up with a coloured gif next to your title by the end.
Water falls from the sky. It then either goes down in the ground, getting filtered along the way, gets pumped back up for us to use again, or gets evaporated back up into the sky to start the cycle again. We have the same amount of water that we've always had... it's just recycled and refreshed continuously.
All of that said, this is a wonderful image and quite deserves the 10 I've given to it.
Precious water. Thank you for not wasting it.
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