First off... YES... the circuit board is a little blurry... this pic has EXTREMELY shallow depth of field... i tightened up the aperture a bit to get it a bit more in focus, then took another 100 pics, but I could not duplicate this drop... i figured that since the drop was the main feature, that it should be perfect... parts of the circuit board are DEAD ON in focus so I figured that it would do =)
This was a Picture that I have been DIEING to take!!! I have seen it done before by eyewave so I have to give him credit for the idea =)
I barely have enough time to enter all the other challenges so there has been no time for my own picture topics... I spent three days thinking of a pic for this challenge... I wanted to do something with the movie 'Number 23'... I went out and bought it and started making a setup... but half way through, I realized that it would not be as good as I had envisioned, so I scrapped it and then thought of just a drip with numbers, but which numbers? Why not Binary number? ones and zeros??? I tried it with just the faucet but that was too boring... Eventually I thought of using an old laptop or keyboard, but when I got close enough to see the drop, you couldn't see that it was a keyboard... then... AH Ha!!! why not a circuit board??? ... well, what has a VERY tiny circuit board with tiny components that will look big in a close-up pic??? A Cell Phone!!! i took apart Three old ones and found the perfect board... then I taped it to the faucet, got a tiny drip going (harder than you think...) , put the pic of numbers upside down behind and shot away... it took a good several hundred shots... yea... it takes that many to get it perfect... I used my D50 with SB-800 on an SC-29 Cord with a Garry Fong Light Sphere to light from the side, and I used my old Nikon 55mm f/3.5 that I purchased off of ebay WITH a nikon FM film camera for $30... =) it's a VERY sharp lens...
How will this do? Honestly, I can't tell... it depends on the other entries... if it gets a 5.7 or higher it will make my top 5 and that will put a big smile on my face =)
ok, here are some setup Pics...
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There... easy as pie.... mmmm pie... now i'm hungry... =P
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OK... Now 'm blown away!!! I went to bed at 11:30 last night because I was wiped out... I thought MAYBE i would get 5th.... but another ribbon? WOOO HOOO!!!
Sorry everyone, i just made the setup pics visible, thanks for all the amazing comments!!!
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fantastic shot, i'm sorry i didn't vote in this challenge but yours would have gotten a 10 added to favs, i love the set up and final picture.nice work
Thank you for the set up pics. It helps a lot to see that you can ribbon with the kinds of messy kitchen set-ups that my family thinks I'm crazy for trying.
Great job!
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