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freakin ripped my eye out of my skull
freakin ripped my eye out of my skull
charliebaker


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Challenge: Stopped Motion IV (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: studio
Date: Nov 15, 2007
Galleries: Humorous, Water
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2007

 My first ever attempt at dripology. I was inspired to attempt this form of stop motion photography by electrolostopening forum post, with his hilarious comment, "If another liquid drop picture wins I am gonna freakin rip my eyes out of my skull :)" Why not add one more another liquid drop picture to the hundreds in this challenge just for fun!?

Credit is due to my son, Thomas, and photographic mentor, zoomdak, for his tutorial on dripology. The star pattern is from the bottom of a cut glass bowl from our kitchen. I shot this in all white conditions with four table lamps and attached camera flash as the light sources.

Post-processing included square crop, color balance to blue, invert, color balance to push yellow and red contrasts, USM.

The title is a slight alteration of electrolost's forum comment. Thanks for the inspiration!

I'm predicting a 5.9 finish. Let the other drops drop!

Statistics
Place: 80 out of 138
Avg (all users): 5.5313
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 5.3455
Avg (non-participants): 5.6286
Views since voting: 918
Views during voting: 365
Votes: 160
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/25/2007 04:27:46 PM
the centered composition takes away from this shot, but the color is quite dynamic. the water drop shot is way over done, but will not affect my scoring.
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 11/23/2007 12:01:55 AM
I really liked this one because of the title. After staring at the image for a while I really like the image too! It really looks like a squinting sun with an eye being ripped out into a drop!!! My first 10 in a while!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/22/2007 11:37:07 PM
part of me likes it, but just a tad overprocessed i think /5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/22/2007 12:47:40 PM
The sunburst background obscures the water drop and hides the plume of water.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/20/2007 09:24:44 AM
colors are pretty. to me there is just too much going on. the sun or sunflower is difficult to make-out - but oh, it's a water drop - almost didn't notice. I can't see the water drop action very well which is probably supposed to be the main event here. a different angle needed? imo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 11:18:35 PM
Funny title, I like how you used the plate to make it a bit different
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 03:24:09 PM
Good water shot but way too much on the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 08:47:32 AM
very powerful color here. Have to look twice to find the drop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 08:14:06 AM
the angle of the shot makes it hard to see the droplet.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 05:51:15 AM
wonder what electrolost will say :)
overall a bit cluttered, looks oversharpened. nice color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 04:57:18 AM
Lovely splash - good variation on a theme! Not so keen on the title. Good Luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/19/2007 01:24:48 AM
I find this far too bright
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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