those camera settings are crazy. I don't know how this one turned out sharp! I used levels, which brought up the contrast a lot, then I bumped the saturation a little, then I used curves to bump the contrast a little more. This is just lake water flowing over a rock or a root.
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aw, shucks. I've really loved the comments y'all have given me. I couldn't believe how beautiful this picture looked when I opened it up and fixed the levels. I forgot to mention that I cropped it and flipped it to get a more compelling composition.
Did someone say prints? I'll figure out how to do that!
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I like the way this came out. The Rebel XT has a strange way of maintaining a degree of sharpness when shooting motion pans or long exposures particularly if you hold the camera still for a portion of the exposure.
I've had some extraordinary results with rushing water:
How do you always take pictures of words, and why can I almost, but not quite hear them, never more than a whisper? I almost heard them, then it was quiet . . .
Don, this is a fantastic shot. I love the abstract feel to it and I can't believe you scored as high as you did with such a good image (Note the sarcasm).
Hey, the commenters got it right yet again! This one belongs in a gallery (art, not shooting). You're an idiot if you don't give yourself an award for this (or at least way too humble).
Remarks: a multi-tiered whirlpool of drawn colour and tone, kempt by wisps and disturbed by shafts of exquisite light. Scale-like patterns are both forming and dissolving, not without direction and definition, while a myriad of lines appear as drawn funnels of a gaseous whole, exhibiting sectional patterns in flux. A slate middle ground overlays much of the image, except where the most gorgeous cyans shine through suggesting a virtual space underlying the background. Where the motion becomes chaotic, it is imbued as if with blood, writhing and rising from an ambiguity of somber, muddied tones forward, toward the viewer, falling to air.
A less ambiguous minutia appears to be figurative, as an Easter egg that looks like a worm or a portion of a thin branch bathing in twilight. I'd say "hurrah", if only there was another image like this one (or several) as part of a larger exhibit that would give the one in front of me a context.
As it is, I cannot, in good conscience, attempt to assign a value to this photo that isn't quite arbitrary.
Mmmm. Incredible abstract and what a face! It has the feel of colored glass and it's so rich with color and texture that I could hang it on my wall and look at it over and over again. The only nipicky thing I might alter is the white spot along the left edge, but even with that this is awesome! Good luck in voting and congratulations on a great shot.
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