Weinhardt Orange Cream Soda -- When things just aren't quite right.by
PatellaComment by Patella: A couple of quick comments.
The light portion in the middle of the shot appears to be a lens flair of some kind. The reason it didn't get "fixed" is actually pretty simple: on my computer at home, it's not there. This is yet another of those monitor calibration problems. I believe my monitor is calibrated correctly using Adobe Gamma, but I may be wrong -- or maybe it's yours... Secondly, after having it pointed out, I tried to fix it using levels, and I don't think it's possible without radically altering the other colors. If someone would like to show me I'm wrong, I'd very much like to learn because I don't know how.
A number of people mentioned using less soda. I could have, but I didn't want it to be blatantly obvious. Besides, I have the feeling that if I had used less, I would have had people telling me I should have used more.
Subtlety was also a comment made by a number of people. Some thought it was too much and some thought it was great. My goal was not to make this easy to see. I hoped that knowing it was upside down, people would take an initial look, not see what was upside down, and look harder. I do that with photos when I can't see the challenge aspect -- in fact, I probably spend more time looking at photos I don't get than photos I do. I was also realistic, though, and didn't expect everybody to see it -- and I was OK with that.
Finally, maybe I should have used a different kind of soda. I think some of the people who couldn't see the upside down were unable to because they thought the air bubble at the bottom of the bottle was the "cream" portion of the soda.
For those of you who recognized this as an ad shot, it is. It just happens to be upside down as well.
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