Another cliche'd shot, but one I've wanted to try for awhile. Treated glass with Rain-X to get good water drop shapes. The title is actually my son's first response to the photo.
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PC: Thanks to all for the great comments and score.
Several mentioned wanting details on how this was done. I've seen the technique many times before, and I did mine in much the same way. I set up near a window to get natural lighting. Placed a white foamboard on the floor, then used 4 long stemmed glasses to hold the glass about 8 inches above it. I cleaned the glass well and treated with Rain-X so that the water would bead up in nice round beads. Arranged the crayons under the glass and placed water drops on the glass with an eye-dropper so I could control the size. I found that the drops had to be similar in size to get reasonable focus of the refracted image in most of them. The small drops are not well focused as a result, but I wanted the contrast in drop sizes. I placed white foamboards vertically along two sides to reflect some light back onto the glass for even lighting. I then stood directly above the glass, focused on the beads, and shot the image.
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Place: 6 out of 110 Avg (all users): 6.7633 Avg (commenters): 8.3077 Avg (participants): 6.4200 Avg (non-participants): 6.9076 Views since voting: 4496 Views during voting: 488 Votes: 169 Comments: 19 Favorites: 9 (view)
That is SO awesome! I always think these shots are so underrated by the voters. To me, they take such skill and when done right turn out so magical -- I think this oughta be in the 7's easy. But congratulations on a fabulous score and front page honors.
Nice, and worthy of a good vote, though this effect is beginning to get a little cliche. It'll probably start getting slammed with low votes whenever I do one.
A very creative look at crayons - the image meets the subject matter dead on with subtle, yet detailed effect. A terrific demonstration of the creative process in meeting the challenge in a very unusual way. Should be a sure bet to win a ribbon or place high as a top twenty image. A couple of minor detail problems not worth mentioning because they don't appear until you really get a critical eye and examine the image closely. Well done.
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