What can I say... I’m completely floored by the score… 7.4+, Wow! The last time I was this nervous was when my “Coffee with a drop of milk” shot was in voting ;-)
Before I describe how I did this image I wanted to tell you that I very, very seldom end up with the photo that I first have in mind…
So, here’s how it went: While out for a walk during my lunchbreak a couple of weeks ago I found a small, clear plastic spring lying on the pavement. I picked it up thinking I might be able to use it for a photo sometime. When this challenge was announced I knew my find would come in handy. In my minds eye I could see the spring floating gracefully on the surface of some coloured water. Perfect. Not!
I got everything set up and put the spring into the bowl of water and what happened? It sank like a stone! No floating gracefully, no surface tension, no nothing. I took a couple of shots of it lying underwater at the bottom of the bowl but they were totally crap ;-)
Because I’d spent ages setting everything up I didn’t want to go too far away from my original idea so I got some glasses out of the cupboard and started experimenting. I stood glasses in the water, stood upeneded glasses in the water, lay glasses in the water. The shots were all o.k. but nothing to write home about.
I suddenly remembered the glasses with the unusual stems I’d used for this shot so I stood one of them in the water, then stood it upended in the water, lay it in the water (hope I’m not boring you ;-) and discovered it was too long to lie properly… Soooo I lay the goblet end over the rim of the bowl and the rest in/over the water. Bingo!!
What you see in the image is the curved stem of the glass. I wanted to get as low down and close as I could so I had to tilt the camera to keep it out of the water which meant my ear was often very close to having a swim ;-) Once I even dipped the lens into the water. Aaarrggghhh!
I had orange coloured water in the bowl and draped a blue transparent sheet over the flash. Made for some great colours.
Thanks SO much for the ribbon, the comments, the faves and the fantastic score.
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Place: 1 out of 177 Avg (all users): 7.4483 Avg (commenters): 8.6000 Avg (participants): 7.3333 Avg (non-participants): 7.5714 Views since voting: 9096 Views during voting: 305 Votes: 145 Comments: 73 Favorites: 28 (view)
another favorite for my colection, Irene what a great shot with so much color which is what i realy love any how. and i also enjoy reading the how tos never boreing for me, keep the great shots comming we love um
It's a beauty. Congratulations!
A few years back I once tried a similar idea with a glass stem but it was not as near as beauitful as this. I didn't end up posting it ;)
Irene... you always surprise me with your shots.. or should I say I'm not surprised anymore!? Do you realize you are by far the BEST photographer in here? I will never get tired of congratulating you, and I greatly appreciate your patience in explaining how you achieve your shots! NO, you are not boring!!!! :)
This is a fabulous image , the colours are superb and composition fantastic , appreciate you giving some insight into the process of producing such a high quality photo it enables and helps us to learn.
The only "10" gave in the challenge -- I'm so pleased you won and got such a favorable score. Thanks for your explanation of the shots that failed and then how you achieved what you got. Terrific work.
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