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The Best Drinks are Blue
The Best Drinks are Blue
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Challenge: Once in a Blue Moon (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: A dark hallway
Date: Jul 31, 2004
Aperture: f/27
ISO: 200
Shutter: 15s
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jul 31, 2004

 :: If It's Blue, You Should Drink It!! ::

The Idea:
I got the idea for this image when I was about to throw out a blue Bawls bottle (this wonderful drink is the lifeblood at my LAN parties). Just before I dropped the bottle in the trash, I thought what a great picture I could make with the pretty blue bottle. I eventually ended up using a clear glass bottle instead, because I couldn't get satisfactory illumination with the blue bottle.

The Setup:
I put UV-flourescent dye mixed with water into a clear glass Zima bottle, which I placed in a large glass bowl of ice and water. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any blue UV dye, so I used green instead, and adjusted the hue later so it looked blue (this worked fine since the only color in the scene was the green glow emitted by the UV dye). Then I arranged 4 cold cathode ultraviolet lights around the bowl. The 4 UV lights were all the lighting there was. The backdrop was a piece of black velvet.

Post Processing:
Neat Image, hue adjustment so the UV glow was a nice refreshing blue, cloned out a tiny reflection of the once-purple now-orange UV light, dodged, burned, and blurred to improve some details, curves adjustment, cropped, scaled, saved as JPEG.

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 282
Avg (all users): 5.5546
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.6250
Avg (non-participants): 5.4960
Views since voting: 1666
Views during voting: 315
Votes: 229
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 08/05/2005 07:49:52 AM
Ooooh. . . I really like this! I'm always drawn to blue, but this has such a cool (temperature cool) look to it. Very awesome!

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Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 10/25/2004 07:21:01 AM
Most shots are not cropped tight enough -- the photographer just does not get close enough to the subject. Looking at this image, I think you have found an image that just the opposite is true -- I think this image is begging for more negative space above it and probably to one side or the other.

Great idea with wonderful lighting and colors.

David
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 08/04/2004 09:03:18 PM
A very alluring image. Very well done with that infinte sense of blue. Bumping from 6 to 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2004 02:43:00 PM
I THRISTY, ANYONE ELSE
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Nikon D70
 08/03/2004 01:44:33 PM
Good nICE SHOT 9
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