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04/14/2003 08:01:20 PM |
Very nice photo, very nice effects but i am afraid that if u see the subject more scientificly you will discover that you can't use the capital letter Ð from the greek alphabet to represent the minuscule ð, it is not mathematically correct. But as an art, yes it is great.
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04/14/2003 02:23:44 PM |
| Excellent shot Ach! God knows how you could get 2 ones for this! Beats me. |
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04/14/2003 11:39:50 AM |
Greetings from the Critique Club :)
Hi Achiral...
I guess it's my destiny to get this photo as a CC assignment... This is the best representation of this technique I have seen on DPChallenge so far, including my own with the "Liberty and Justice" photo last summer.
There are three specific elements that I believe are key to making this technique work effectively. 1) The water beads should be randomly dispersed and of different sizes. The glass treatment gives this effect nicely and it creates more three dimensional impact. 2) The background object should be out of focus in a shallow depth of field. This makes the reflections in the water beads stand out in a powerful way. 3) The reflections in the beads of water should be in focus.
The #3 part of this is the difficult part, because, in order to keep your surface image out of focus, you have to use a more shallow depth of field. But if you go too shallow, your water bead reflections don't stay tack sharp. Your image has perfect focus in the water beads and the background is blurred. To make this concept perfect, the background should be as out of focus as possible while the beads stay focused.
The first improvement that may have some possiblity here would be to experiment with blurring the background to the maximum possible while keeping the beads sharp. The second area for improvement is that I believe this would have made a brilliant color image with a yellow pi symbol on a black or dark blue background...
Kudos on a great shot :)
John Setzler
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04/14/2003 10:05:39 AM |
| So unlucky the two 1`s put you out of 3rd place. |
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04/14/2003 08:33:54 AM |
| Dude! So close yet so far. Great shot. |
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04/13/2003 07:47:53 PM |
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04/13/2003 04:25:02 PM |
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04/13/2003 11:43:34 AM |
| Winner. Good job with this one. The drops are all perfect circles. Nice work |
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04/13/2003 11:41:21 AM |
| Very Setzler-esque :). But nicely done. I'm giving it a 10! |
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04/12/2003 12:35:26 PM |
| Done many times before but it`s one of the best ones. |
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04/11/2003 01:23:02 PM |
| Old idea but still working very well. One of my favourites this week. Great in b&w, focus and cropping. I like the composition too. Very well done. Good luck! |
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04/11/2003 12:54:26 PM |
| this is a wonderful use of this technique. I like that you chose b/w as well. An exellent photo. 10 |
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04/11/2003 07:41:30 AM |
| Very interesting effect. I've seen this technique several times on DP and always like it. Yours is excellent. One of my favorites this week. |
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04/11/2003 12:41:56 AM |
| I hate to admit it, but I'm getting a bit tired of seeing droplets of water refracting an image behind. However, I will not vote you down for it, because it works and it's often a good idea. In this case, the droplets kind of deconstruct pi, dissecting it into pieces that are no less intriguing than the whole of pi, so this water droplet technique really works here, probably better than in other situations because the droplets actually can mean something and aren't just a gimmick. Whew! Thanks for listening! And nice work. |
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04/10/2003 03:33:48 AM |
| couldn't you do something to not make the bubbles change the pi's into u's. jk bort. |
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04/09/2003 04:59:48 PM |
| Another Winner....congrats on a great pic... I think I know who this is...lol |
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04/09/2003 02:35:44 PM |
| Feels like a door to time. |
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04/09/2003 10:54:00 AM |
| What a nicely imagined and executed photo. Great. |
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04/09/2003 04:41:11 AM |
| It's a shame you can't see the pi symbol in the biggest water drop of them all, the one cut off at the very top. |
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04/08/2003 07:51:16 PM |
| This is one of those "how'd they do that's". Good job |
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04/08/2003 07:30:41 PM |
| one of my favorites photo here. An idea that i have seen many times before but i don´t care, this is a brilliant photo. |
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04/08/2003 10:49:55 AM |
| Good refraction image. I like it a lot, if only those "pi" symbols could have all been centered it would have been perfect - 8. |
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04/07/2003 10:39:47 PM |
| Nice use of this technique. |
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04/07/2003 08:05:04 PM |
| This is wonderful! The clarity of focus and ingenuity of composition are fabulous! |
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04/07/2003 07:13:03 PM |
| Impressive idea for a Pi Challenge. Do tell us how you did this will you? Visual impact is stimulating to say the least. Focus is excellent in my opinion. Absolutely splendid black and white photography. |
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04/07/2003 06:23:35 PM |
| Very pretty shot....good shooting, good idea, good luck. |
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04/07/2003 08:57:22 AM |
| unfortunately the Pi in the droplets are reversed, I know this is not something you could control but it disturb this beautiful picture. A very nice shot though! Congrats |
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04/07/2003 06:02:07 AM |
| Nicely executed, but I've seen this idea so man times now... |
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04/07/2003 03:35:03 AM |
| Fun entry. I like the repeating patterns. Although there is always one entry like this, you've done a nice job with your clarity of focus, nice use of black and white, exposure and cropping. Overall, I like the image you created very much. |
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04/07/2003 02:13:35 AM |
| OMG what a great effect. I have NEVER seen this done before. |
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04/07/2003 01:58:09 AM |
| Nice picture... really good lighting. I have to deduct a little because of the common theme (drops with reflections). But this is a very good rendition of it!! :) |
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04/07/2003 12:45:48 AM |
| great shot! the b & w works really well here. good job! 10 from me |
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04/07/2003 12:30:03 AM |
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04/07/2003 12:25:55 AM |
| oh no.. not again! lol... very well executed though! superb execution even... but it's been done soooo many times! |
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