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Polluting Our Oceans
Polluting Our Oceans
BrianR


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Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Date Uploaded: Aug 10, 2009

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 I withdraw this from the oil challenge as I did not believe it would have achieved a good vote, and looking at the entries was glad of my decission.

Pollution of Our Oceans

I created this scene 24hrs before I did the shoot, thinking to myself that most will probably do oil in bottles or such like things making master portraits, I decided to step outside the box again and go for a topic to fit the challenge as well as show what we all know is happening to our oceans.
I found a picture frame with a solid border around it and glass fitted to it, painting the glass with a layer of clean motor oil I poured some water based paint onto the glass surface, (Blue & Beige) then with a brush painted into the oil trying to create an ocean effect, I let this settle for a couple of hours, allowing the paint to dry some, then with a screwdriver tip made the swirls leaving to settle overnight.
This was set up on a table and using a piece of A4 plain paper painted and stuck it to the base laying it back over the edge of the frame to give a wave effect and painted along the length with variable strokes. The background is a soft box pushing light down from behind, and set another on the left, doing the shoot with the camera in the portrait profile to take in the oil I poured while shooting with a remote.


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 08/11/2009 09:58:40 AM
Well...comment 2000 for me. This would have done really well Brian. Its a terrific image and has a great message. You may have wanted to straighten it so that the stream of oil was vertical but that's pretty minor.
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