Once I'd thought of this idea, it took several days and a couple of trips to the arts & crafts shop for the props, followed by a couple of evenings working out how to do the lighting. A great learning experience and my first serious attempt at using multiple flash lighting and reflectors.
Made the syringe point from a thumb tack point glued into the nozzle, then filled the syringe with pearlescent glue to get the liquid metal effect. The coin is artwork blu-tacked to the glass.
Lighting is one flash behind the blue background and another behind and to the left of the camera, with a white sheet of cardboard just out of shot on the right to fill in the shadows.
PP - crop, add single hue/saturation layer to desaturate certain colours and get the silver effect (thanks to Konador for the excellent selective desat tutorial) - also to make the background blue a bit stronger. Single brightness/contrast layer to add pop. Save as JPEG.
Post challenge:
Wow - what a great surprise to finish on the front page so thanks for all the votes, the comments and the ribbon!
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Place: 2 out of 119 Avg (all users): 6.6406 Avg (commenters): 8.4375 Avg (participants): 6.4894 Avg (non-participants): 6.6897 Views since voting: 7628 Views during voting: 384 Votes: 192 Comments: 39 Favorites: 5 (view)
This injection doesn't look so scary like the other one in the contest, and I love this photo
LOL! As the person responsible for the other injection shot - which did finish 12th so not too far behind you :-), a tip of the hat to you and congrats on your red!
Awesome work, this was my favorite of them all. Congratulations on your ribbon. I still can not believe somebody gave you nothing in creativity when this is one of the most creative ones.
Should have scored a lot higher, but for this dumb mass of chimps who twitch and salivate as they vote 10's on water drop shots challenge after challenge after challenge.
now how cool is that!!! concept is very strong but lighting and focus could have been better. overall i like this and the image should do well in voting.
An injection of liquidity
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