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Fire Water Energy Drink
Fire Water Energy Drink
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fire IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IIn
Lens: Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM
Location: Metairie, LA
Date: Sep 30, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/4 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2009

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two photos from the same capture created from raw were layered
layer masks were used to isolate the top flame from the bottle
unsharp mask on both layers
tone mapx2 on bottom layer
layer mask tone mapped layer to expose darker background of original bottom
merge visible layers
rotate
crop
cloned out sensor dust and hot pixels
bri-cont
used three layers of different levels of blurriness with layer masks to smooth out the noise
scale to 720px
healing and clone tool to remove pixel dust and minor black spots

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 96
Avg (all users): 5.7120
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.6222
Avg (non-participants): 5.7625
Views since voting: 1536
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 125
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/11/2009 09:44:10 PM
A sound effect of "FWOOOM!" would suit this.
 10/11/2009 07:06:17 PM
Very Colorful, Keep up the fun work..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/10/2009 11:52:35 PM
Concept is excellent. Tough to deal with the noise. 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/10/2009 07:53:28 PM
The color variation is wonderful, the meltdown is what makes this image distinct.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/09/2009 02:46:32 PM
Great shot. Nice colors
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/08/2009 01:19:18 AM
that's what happens when you shake up a bottle of power_thirst!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2009 05:22:19 PM
I bet that was fun to do.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2009 06:47:41 AM
Very interesting , with nice colors from the flame , 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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