This actually is a lot less edited than it looks. It is a picture actually of my hand in oil droplets suspended in cream, illuminated from above. I was eating dinner, and I noticed it, so I ran and got my camera. No tripod, no flash, just handheld.
I initally moved this into fourier space because of the noise in the image, and was wondering if I could clean it up there without getting rid of the detail. The fourier transform was very intersting, and showed almost no structure, so I decided to mess around and see what the inverse would return.
I duplicated the background layer, then ran a fourier transform on the background layer, keeping the duplicate on top. I adjusted the hue and saturation of the fourier transform, and upon inverse transformation it had a lot more texture (particularly on the right half of the image). Adjusted the opacity of the top layer, and voila.
Cropped...and that was it.
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OK. It's somewhat blurred (use a tripod!) and flat. People also tend to prefer bright colors, so working in B&W here is a disadvantage. What was this like in color?
the variations in hand size and the old-timey processing make this much much better than the tiresome multi-image water drop shots that infect this shot. You show them how it's done. This picture is emotional, ominous, beautiful. 9
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