Colorful Liquids, Reflections & Waterdrops
by h2

Comment:

Originally posted by h2: Go, play a bit with photoshop! :-P

Hehehe, touché :-) Given the next challenges' topics, photoshop won't be much use I'm afraid, time to put my "real photographer" suit on ;-)

Colorful Liquids, Reflections & Waterdrops
by h2

Comment:
Congrats Irene! Cliché shot, but extremely well done.

Fisherman
by AllenP

Comment:
Of course I hate you for winning this one, but I must say it is a wonderful image :-)
Congratulations, you're on fire these days!

Freshhh!
by h2

Comment:
Oliver, very high quality photo as usual. Congratulations on the ribbon!

As for the DoF debate, the top of the bottle being out of focus did not bother me: in fact, I liked it, because it puts the emphasis even more on the splash's sharpness.

In order to obtain everything in focus, obviously, composing 2 exposures would work, as you explained. Just wondering: why didn't you simply raised the ISO, especially with a 5D2? This would have allowed for a narrower aperture, wouldn't it?

The last drop of water
by IreneM

Comment:
Irene, I was so missing your entries! I am so happy that you are back. I really hope you will be able to enter as much as you want in the upcoming challenges.
By the way, that's a fantastic way to come back :-) Congratulations on the blue!

Insanitea
by gyaban

Comment:

Originally posted by citymars: Originally posted by gyaban: Thank you! However, the fake room solution wouldn't work here, the tea wouldn't flow to the "ground". So the trick is something different this time ;-) Hmm, so much for my theory, I figured you the "flowing tea" was plastic or something! Keep up the great work.

Tea is absolutely real. And hot :-) I drilled holes in both the cup and the spoon and screwed them together, but it wasn't very waterproof: I regularly had hot tea on the fingers, which was one of numerous reasons for a missed attempt.

Insanitea
by gyaban

Comment:

Originally posted by citymars: Fantastic. I gave this an 8 on first review and would have bumped it up if I'd gone through the entries a second time as I often do. So you bought the materials and built the setup? Does that mean you are on you knees in a fake room you built? OMG, I'll never compete with that much prep, even though in a case like this I see it is worth the effort!

Thank you!
However, the fake room solution wouldn't work here, the tea wouldn't flow to the "ground". So the trick is something different this time ;-)

Insanitea
by gyaban

Comment:

Originally posted by bassbone: I have sat and studied your shot and the one place in the photo that is interesting to me is near your arm and tie - as if a bit of minor cloning or cleaning up was done.

Thanks a lot for your kind comment :-)

In fact, the only processing that was done near my arm and tie was some hue adjustment (the tie was originally red). This is probably some poor masking that you detected: I spent much time on it, but the colors were so different that it really was challenging.

Caught
by roz

Comment:
Such shot is abominably hard to take well, I am very impressed. Congratulations on this well deserved finish!

A life in recline
by Paul

Comment:
The lighting is fantastic. It conveys the softness and the fragility of the situation so well. Congratulations on your well deserved ribbon!