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08/06/2002 01:21:31 PM · #1 |
Some people asked in the comments to my dot com photo, how I did it. Well, I think it's a bit late to append it to the photo comments, nobody will read it. So I post it here.
I printed the ".c m" on white paper and bought a soap bubble maker. It had a special (very slimy) liquid which made the bubbles more resistant so that they don't burst so fast. Ideal for photographing. I tried several times until I managed that the bubble fell to the right place.
The result was this which is the cropped and resized original. Well, then it was obviously manipulated, but of course only by means complying to the rules.
First I used the unsharpen mask of my image editor (The Gimp). This is the result. So that caused the strange "glowing" around the letters. It also brought up the bubble much nicer.
After that I played around with brightness and contrast. First a little but then I saw that when I decrease the brightness and increase the contrast quite a lot that it looks very dramatic (compared to the very flat image before). Then I increased the saturation because that way the middle area came up with a different color than the edges. I thought it would be a nice way to lead the eye's interest more to the bubble. I also adjusted the hue a little to something I liked more. The result is the final image.
I knew that many people won't like the photo because it looks unnatural and obviously postprocessed. I understand that and partly think the same. But to me it was not "too much" but I know that this is a subjective feeling. I also knew that I would loose points for the grain, but I didn't care ;-)
Well, thanks to all for your comments and your help so far.
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08/06/2002 02:00:26 PM · #2 |
Well done mate - it was a superb picture. This and customer dissatisfaction were the only 2 that scored 10 from me last week.
John |
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08/06/2002 02:02:59 PM · #3 |
| Oh, DUH, I thought that was a contact lens! :-) |
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08/06/2002 02:33:50 PM · #4 |
Thanks for the explanation. I did like the originality of this image and it told so much in such a simple way.
What I like to comment on is that you went out of your way to come up with something original that MET the challenge and also went out of your way to carry out your idea.
Therefore, I stick to my rule of knocking down by a lot images that don't meet the challenge at all and knocking down somewhat the images whose link to the challenge is a tenuous one.
Once again, I realize that this image fell victim to getting lost in the shuffle when I did my final vote tweaking and overlooked it. Definitely would have raised the score by 2 points. I really struggle with this but doing a 100% vote, commenting on 50-60 pictures, tweaking the vote at the end on a number of them, that already takes me an awful lot of time on my slow modem. |
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08/06/2002 04:27:08 PM · #5 |
Thank you for answering the question that went through my mind when I voted on that one. I think the post processing is great and is very much a part of photography today. While I am well aware that the goal is to achieve as much as possible straight from the camera, it is the minor post processing tricks that really make a photo pop. Good job!
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08/07/2002 01:48:39 PM · #6 |
Many thanks for your encouraging postings :-)
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