Challenge:Blue (Classic Editing) Camera:Canon PowerShot G2 Location: Grand Falls, NB Kitchen Table Date: Nov 30, 2002 Aperture: F5.6 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/800 Galleries:Macro, Action Date Uploaded: Nov 30, 2002
A new twist on an old classic. Handheld. 1/800 shutter speed. Manual focus. Used a 500W light source (Thanks Dad for lending it to me)in order to so fast (indoors). Yes this is an actual blueberry. Threw the blueberry in a pan filled with 18% cream. Fun stuff. The messiest challenge yet. What a hoot. My cat really had a field day. Cropped out approximately 60%, desaturated all colours but blue and cyan. Sharpened a little bit. Had quite a few turn out OK and had a hard time picking one.
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Great shot! was the camera on single shot or was it on a burst setting? i have tried to due something on the same idea with a small rock in a pond and never got it to look anything worth looking at. After looking at this and reading on it i am going to give it another shot.
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Honestly, although I do love my G2, I didn't even think a shot like this was possible to be captured by the G2. Guess I have to think again. Great capture. I'd like to hear more of what you did to get this one. What kind of macro ring did you use in this shot? Just how close did you get and was it done handheld (although I would think it would be difficult), or did you tripod this one?
COMPOSITION:
Jacko, I think it works nicely. The elements all come together in the frame and keep the shot very balanced as they are. I wonder what it would have looked like if there was a bit more of the image on the bottom. :)
TECHNICAL:
Great. Focus is good on the BBerry. The directional lighting is superb and I love how it creates the shadows. :)
ARTISTIC:
This is where you take the cake, buddy. This is simply incredible. Great patience to create this shot. I would not even attempt it. :)
OVERALL:
Deserving of first place? Sure! This is one of the few 'WOW' shots one comes across here on DPChallenge.
I haven't edited them much; too lazy tonight. Cropped a little and brightened them a bit in Photoshop. I shot approx. 100 photos for the challenge. I got the best effect when I'd actually throw them in the cream. Gently dropping the blueberries only caused blobs of cream. I wanted a lower angle, but my first attempt caused some cream to fly on my lens ... that was the end of that. I ran off a couple of prints to hang in my home office. I convereted to Black and White, then colorized the blueberries (bright blue of course). Looks pretty neat.
MOMMY MOMMY! I WON A PRETTY RIBBON! Lol. Thank you for all the nice comments and feedback. I have to go work, but I'll post a link to more variations I took of this photo tonight or tomorrow.
This is just way to cool man. Love this shot. Looks like you just barely coated the bottom of the bowl with milk. This gave you your splash effect and also provided for a little bounce from the Blueberry. How long did this bad boy take. I just love this.
Very nice. The shadows are kind of distracting to me, however, nothing serious at all. I like the splash effect. Definately blue, and presented very nicely. The focus seems good too. I like the angle and framing/cropping. Very nice shot. Good luck in the challenge.
Great idea and great capture!
Compositionally it feels too low in the frame - I appreciate it's probably cropped that way to include the droplets/ corona but it just feels a little too tightly cropped at the bottom to me.
Some of the whites seem a little blown out, though that could be my monitor which doesn't have a high enough gamut to see the very whitest and very blackest ranges.
Great shot! I especially like the milk coating the berry. Very good depth of field. Great lighting. Nothing about this picture I don't like. A well deserved 10!
Stop motion... I just love it! Your focus is perfectthe milk on the blueberry causing a small reflection is good. And the splash!!! Woohoo! The bberry is too centred for my taste though but a part from that a amazing shot! 9 kosmik
Very nice. The splash is awesome, as is the position of the berry. Only bad point is the big shadow. Excellent shot, would love to know how many attempts this took!
i would have loved this photo more if more of the blue on the blueberryshowed through the milk, however i know that it is very difficult to control these things. i like the bluish tint that the milk below took on, and the title is great.
This is a really cool stopped motion shot. I've seen droplets before but never with a tiny blueberry sphere that seemingly hovers in the center of the ring! Must have taken lots of tries! I'd have the camera angled a bit more downward, it seems the bottom's cut a bit. Since retaking the picture is not an experience I'd like to do twice, perhaps a crop that leaves the sphere and ring more in the center of your image? Berry nice though!
fun shot, two things bother me though. 1. the blueberry is dead center(I am a fan of the thirds rule in most cases) 2. The white speck in a shadow is distracting, after the contest it would be benificial to stamp it out. Otherwise good exposure and detail.
Okay wow. Outstanding picture. The only problem with it is that I just don't get that blue feeling. It is a blue berry... but it doesn't make me feel blue, and it doesn't look blue, and I don't really think blue at all.
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