Here's some background about todays shot. I started off this morning with an idea about shooting some water drops. I initially shot some little cacti that I have in pots that had been sprayed with water but they weren't really working. Then I tried pencils, feathers and eventually candles. A little tweaking in Photoshop got the required results for the Flickr post. Image was tightly cropped, colored and sharpened. I really liked the way the flame reflected in the drops and will definitely do this again. Some of the discarded shots are below.
There were a couple of shots that almost made the grade out of this shoot. One was a macro of the feather shot. When zoomed in, I could see the studio lights reflected in the drop and it made quite a comical look. The other was a crop of the pencil shot. As shot it was pretty uninspiring but when I was editing it, I had the idea to turn it upside down. This just gave it a little quirkiness that I liked.
Anyhoo, here they are:
One last thing, I had a strange thought when I was processing the candle shot, that it might look good with an image of an eye superimposed into the flame !!!!! but it just looked naff......
.....so it got binned.
Thanks for reading and see you soon.
Mark
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