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Flow of Radiance
Flow of Radiance
Kivet


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Challenge: Refraction of Light (Basic Editing III)
Camera: HP PhotoSmart R707
Location: Saratoga Lake
Date: Apr 3, 2006
Galleries: Abstract, Water
Date Uploaded: Apr 4, 2006

 A happy accident of previous photography led me to take this reshoot of my picture Looking Past The Surface.
So, this is a picture of the bottom of the lake with the sun shining on the wind blown surface of the water, creating these lines of light across the bottom.

Neat imaged, adjusted levels then desaturated the whole picture, added a bit of blue with curves, USM, then sharpened/blurred, then a trip through neat image again which evened out the picture nicely, croped and saved.

The part about this picture I like the most is how at the bottom the rocks are clear with only faint lines of light then gradually until you get to the top of the picture the rocks arent visable anymore, its only the ligh and the more i looked at and into this picture i was lost in the light and it was actually kinda soothing. I hope this can connect with others as well.

Statistics
Place: 29 out of 161
Avg (all users): 6.1401
Avg (commenters): 7.3333
Avg (participants): 5.5429
Avg (non-participants): 6.3636
Views since voting: 1178
Views during voting: 340
Votes: 257
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/30/2006 01:37:52 AM
Simple. Beautiful. Perfect. This is really "wow"!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/11/2006 10:32:24 PM
I know this has been done before, but has it ever been done so perfectly? 10.
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 04/11/2006 11:03:16 AM
Nice. As my eyes move up, the refraction of light makes it less obvious what I'm looking at.
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 04/10/2006 03:41:45 PM
Nice patterns. Needs something as a focal point, big hotspot, a lilypad, floating flower, fish, frog, etc.
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 04/09/2006 08:23:48 PM
I love this shot and the editing...this would look great on a wall as a huge print, well done
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 04/09/2006 08:14:32 AM
Great one for textures.....
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 04/08/2006 09:22:57 PM
Good photo. Appropriate for the challenge.
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 04/08/2006 01:30:47 PM
Beautifully done!
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 04/08/2006 10:03:47 AM
Breath-taking. Love the monochromatic effect.
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 04/08/2006 03:39:59 AM
grat pattern in this shot I like it
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 04/08/2006 02:17:13 AM
Gorgeous!
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 04/07/2006 07:20:59 PM
Wonderful image. Too bad this is basic editing otherwise you could brighten or clone that dark area in the upper left corner.
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 04/07/2006 02:54:10 AM
love the shot .. but I don't quite see refraction
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 04/06/2006 08:10:55 PM
Beautiful and different than many other entries. Bumped this up.
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 04/06/2006 02:26:39 PM
Great originality and the tonality is very good. Well done!
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 04/05/2006 11:36:32 AM
Wow very nice pic
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