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Challenge: Painting With Light III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: South Africa, Pretia
Date: Jun 5, 2007
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2007

The wineglass is empty.

Lighting: My base lighting (just so that the image is not pitch black except for the streaks) was the same as for day 28 of my 30 day black & white challenge. Used a flash positioned behind the glass (lower than the glass) to fire at the blue wall. The reflected light from the large wall made for nice smooth light. Used the a PC cord (with DIY safe sync) to trigger flash. A small white LED was used to 'paint' the light streaks.

Post processing: RAW conversion. Noise reduction to ensure smooth out the background a little. Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to try tone down a weird reflection just below the bowl of the glass (might be from my hand while I was 'painting'. Curves for adjustment layer contrast. Added the border, resize, smart sharpen and save for web.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 245
Avg (all users): 6.1512
Avg (commenters): 8.1667
Avg (participants): 5.8103
Avg (non-participants): 6.2857
Views since voting: 916
Views during voting: 403
Votes: 205
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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06/18/2007 12:23:21 PM
Greetings from the critique club! This is a very nice image and I'm delighted to get to critique it.

Pros:

Your lighting is very good, and the streaks have great color, great exposure, and a nice fluid motion. Overall color of the image is very nice.

Cons:

Not much here; there are the burnouts in the glass, but they're minor, and I'd prefer a smoother background on this one (there are a couple of dark patches on the left side) but overall I think it's very good, and the voters clearly thought so too.

Challenge:

This clearly meets the challenge.

Thanks!

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/13/2007 02:29:19 PM
0-2 meets challenge = 2
0-3 creativity = 3
0-3 technical merit = 3
0-2 biased wow factor = 1
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06/12/2007 07:43:20 AM
Well done image, I like it. The blue is perfect and balances the use of the painted light well, giving a really nice overall effect. 9
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06/09/2007 11:28:25 PM
Perhaps one of the better ones with a light wand, nice job
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06/09/2007 09:22:09 PM
nice macro on the glass - the mystical lines are pretty well done - and the colors are very attractive
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06/08/2007 02:34:49 PM
Very Cool. I like the effect of the light coming out of the glass. 8
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06/06/2007 06:21:26 PM
oh nice work :-)
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