Technical:
It's a water drop into a blue coffee mug, lit by two flash guns off camera (they make the two hot spots seen on the top of the drop). The drops are from an inverted soda bottle hanging over the mug. there's a small hole poked in its cap.
I took the vibrancy all the way to the top in ACR and fixed the exposure. In photoshop, I pulled up the red midtones in curves, then started using the sliders in HSL to get as much saturation in it as I could without posterizing it too much. Did a noise ninja, crop/resize/straighten, then did a light USM and saved it out for web.
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I just love the title. It makes me laugh every time.
You can just laugh your way to the Red Ribbon Bank, huh? Good for you! Well earned with a wonderful shot.
Thanks for sharing the technical notes. This is a beautiful shot, as well as being interesting. Someday I will get up the nerve to try a water drop shot.
Irene, thanks! I was trying to do a re-creation of your drop collision stuff, rather unsuccessfully, but getting lots of pictures of drops after the bounce hanging in midair refracting some glasses that happened to be sitting behind the coffee mug. Using the setup for a ducky ii entry came to me when I happened to be at a store that sold rubber duckies.
Holy Moly!!!! Great idea, great execution, and great title! Either you got super lucky ducky with capturing the waterdrop with the refracted ducky in the first 20 shots or you have extreme amount of patience to have gotten this shot. Either way - kudos for capturing such a great action shot! Love the colors too - nice deep blues, purple, orange and yellow hues that are pleasing to the eye. Composition has sharp clarity and we can clearly see all the details of the ducky refracted in that waterdrop that has been forever frozen in the act of falling. Great job - coming back to comment and bump to 10
Wow, that is by far and away my favorite pic of the challenge. Very nice work, From color to the stop motion, it is absolutely wonderful, very nice job. 10 from me.
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