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11. The essence of life
11. The essence of life
suemack


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Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: kitchen at work
Date: Jun 11, 2007
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2007

Viewed: 289
Comments: 12
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 A glass of water on the stainless steel bench at work. I'd dreamed of getting a drop perfectly plopping in, but at 5pm on a winter's afternoon that was just a dream. Maybe sometime before the end of the month.

Cropped and rotated slightly, levels, brightness/contrast, resize and usm. Rainbow gradient layer, inverted it, then set to soft light, reduced opacity to about 20% and masked out the background just leaving a touch of colour on the glass. Touch of median noise filter reduction on the background as it was a bit gritty looking (ISO 800 will do it almost everytime)

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 09/18/2007 03:06:23 AM
Very serene lovely colours and tones
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 09/18/2007 01:19:18 AM
What an amazingly peaceful shot this is... crisp, well composed and very well lit!
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 06/13/2007 01:16:15 PM
I get a feeling of zen just from looking at this. Beautiful colors and composition.
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 06/13/2007 06:47:23 AM
I really think this is a perfect image here and you should be very proud.....
I really love the simplicity and the awesome color..... so soft snd so melattic looking in a pearly way.....
At first glance of the thumbnail, I thought the title made me think that this image was the hand piece of a telephone, a nice soft pearly one, but it isn't..... & I still love it .....

Message edited by author 2007-06-13 06:51:59.
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 06/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
Really captured beauty with this one, Sue. Congrats.
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 06/12/2007 07:53:15 AM
Nice silky smooth image..
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 06/12/2007 03:53:16 AM
Silky smooth....very soothing image.
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 06/11/2007 11:07:22 PM
This is a nice abstract. nice and smooth!
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 06/11/2007 03:51:36 PM
This is so calming and peaceful! Very Nice!!
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 06/11/2007 01:05:44 PM
Nice abstract feel, so clean and smooth. Just lovely.
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 06/11/2007 09:50:03 AM
Beautiful! The the colors are incredible.
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 06/11/2007 09:45:03 AM
I really like it- the blues are dreamy and the patterns draw you in.... you threw me off when you said winter- then I checked where you live !
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