Jellyfish à la Pollock
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Comment by RobotBanjo:
WHOA. SO underrated! The abstract composition here is brilliant! The coloration, the tones, the details, the contrast... so great! This would make the most beautiful large print for someone's home. I don't understand what voters were thinking. This is fabulous!

Desert Flower
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Comment by Neat:
Man this is breath taking.

Bill's flower
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Comment by soup:
it's a dinner plate dhalia, which if it had been cut with a longer stem could have allowed for a bit more experimentation.

the light on the flower is quite good. the vase is a distraction. the hot spots on it, and the bubbles on the inside of the water. ( you can avoid the bubble by letting the water sit for a bit, or using a Q-tip to brush them away ). i've also heard boiling the water first will eliminate the bubbles, but i've not tried that.

another thing to try if you have a 3rd light would be to blast light on a background which will bounce back thru the glass, and help with the hot spots from the other lights ( this light would be below the table top aiming up ), as well as back light the flower. think about a complimentary color background to accentuate the flowers color. you could probably make it work with two flashes, and a reflefctor. one flash on the BG, one for the main light on the subject, and a reflector to bounce back the main light.

the BG light would likely be set to about twice the power as the main light. but that depends alot on distance to subject, and BG color, among other things.

nice work.

Bill's flower
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Comment by Spork99:
The lighting on the flower is spot on.

The lighting on the vase is meh.

Bill's flower
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Comment by tanguera:
That is one gorgeous dahlia!!! Not that I'm a pro or anything, but I think the lighting on the flower is spot on perfect. I don't like the catchlight on the right of the vase, though. I don't know that you needed the light on the right, as other than that catch light, I'm not seeing how it adds to the image. Perhaps it just needs to be further behind so that it doesn't appear on the glass.

Glimmer
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Comment by RianBotes:
Wow... Lovely effect with light. Light is everything and well captured

Glimmer
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Comment by antje1777:
Beautiful image!!

Glimmer
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Comment by tanguera:
These guys are absolutely FEARLESS. I was on a shoot once, and one of these landed on a plant a few yards from me. I used my zoom to capture it before it flew off at my approach. But it never did. I eventually took several shots from just a few inches away, and it just sat there, enjoying the afternoon sun, and apparently, my attention.

Glimmer
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Comment by Alyn:
I absolutely love that glimmer. The detail really pops with the strong contrast and alternations of complimentary yellow and blue.

Glimmer
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Comment by Jon_H:
Love the lighting on the wings.