Single flower and water-filled vase/glass on table. Camera on tripod. Flipped camera 180 degrees between shots. Illuminated using manual external flash. Set up also required moving flower in between shots to get preferred separation.
Only regret is waiting so long to take this, as the flower was starting to wither.
Crop, levels, curves, selective color to darken black areas, clone hot pixel/sensor dust, some noise reduction, topaz detail, slight sharpening
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Very well done. I once entered a similar image but with a candle instead. I am sure you did better. I thought the flame pointed upside down would have proved interesting. Regardless, you have a technique that can lend itself to other ideas.
sorry had to give a 6. Everyone judges differently but for me the image demonstrates double exposure well but the double exposure doesn't actually enhance the impact of the image (to me). To me it says - "here is a really clean image of a flower and here it is upside down to show a technique"... and I think - "does doing that really make the photo better?" I know you are caught between a rock and a hard place... on this site some people tend to judge highly on meeting the challenge (hopefully they will score you highly to balance me) and you have met it well and some judge more on the overall impact. I lean a lot on the impact side - sorry it didn't do the impact (for me). If you could have managed to have something different about the 2 parts then that probably would have pushed it higher in my eyes.
NB that is just me - no criticism of technique (is well done) just a long winded comment how it struck me as an individual.
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