Trip to two supermarkets to find sugar cubes. An hour with a ruler and red food colouring. Another hour rearranging the lights to get even lighting and solid reflection. 40 shots at f20+ and one shot at f3. Upload using bridge. Arrrgh like the f3 shallow depth of field best, but only one shot to chose from!! Quick fiddle in CS4, after all it is basic editing. Frustrated that I could not remove the loose grains of sugar!
Upload, cross fingers!
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First Impression: My first thought was that this was a map of Milton Keynes! Seriously this was one of my highest scoring images and the red cube (not square) bumped it to an 8 from my speed vote of 6.
Composition: Without my set square this is about as perfect as you can get and I'm pretty sure if I'd have thought of this myself the red cube would have been centered and so ruined the overall effect of the shot
Subject: ok, I guess a cube is made up of 6 squares so it meets the challenge many (many) times. For a while I thought you had the cubes sitting in liquid and it was being sucked up but that would be almost impossible, it was then I realised it was a reflection. Simple and beautiful yet complex at the same time.
Technical: Can't fault the technicals here as they are pretty much perfect. there is a lot of blue in the image and whilst I like it I wonder how a selective desaturation would have worked? B&W & Red?
Final thoughts: A great score for a great image with a good place to boot! Time well spent on the shopping and setting up Chris!
nice as it is though I do think if the white squares had been cut into circles it would be even better (thats not criticism btw just an idea)
Hey just thought you could have then done exactly the same picture but with the white circles red and the single square white and called it PI or sumfin and entered into the circle ;-)
I've just set my windows background to this too btw
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