Ldina Posted June 8 Posted June 8 Photo of water flowing slowly from our kitchen faucet, shot with a 100mm macro lens, using a strobe from the side. I placed an LP Album Cover (I forget which album) in the background for color, which was made sharp by the flowing water, which acted as a lens. Shallow DOF threw most of the background album completely out of focus, except that part which was "focused" by the water. The camera was mounted on a tripod, but I had to take many exposures, since the water was weaving back and forth, some in focus, some not, plus the shape kept changing as the water flowed. I liked this one the best of this series. Fun shoot. The attached is an sRGB image exported from AfPhoto, but the original DCI-P3 export is much more vibrant and dramatic. -iain-, Kasper-V, SrPx and 12 others 14 1 Quote 2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Sequoia OS, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet, 2TB OWC SSD USB external hard drive.
walt.farrell Posted June 8 Posted June 8 Thanks for describing your process; sounds like a fun and challenging shoot. Ldina 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Ldina Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 Another image taken using a similar approach. The background album cover on this one is from "Hot Tuna" (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, from Jefferson Airplane). This is an sRGB JPG for "accurate" presentation on the forum. Again, the DCI-P3 version is much more vibrant, especially the reds, but will not display properly here. AffinityJules, TestTools, markw and 5 others 7 1 Quote 2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Sequoia OS, Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher v1 & v2, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet, 2TB OWC SSD USB external hard drive.
Mordi Posted June 15 Posted June 15 Cool process, and neat images. These would actually make some nice album covers, I think. Ldina 1 Quote
AffinityJules Posted June 20 Posted June 20 Top picture makes me think of a stick of rock (the sweet variety) which is melting, not like glass at all. . .interesting. Did I just say glass!? I meant water. . .Doh! Ldina 1 Quote Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. These are not my own words but I sure like this quote.
AffinityJules Posted June 21 Posted June 21 On 6/8/2025 at 2:07 PM, Ldina said: Another image taken using a similar approach. The background album cover on this one is from "Hot Tuna" (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, from Jefferson Airplane). This is an sRGB JPG for "accurate" presentation on the forum. Again, the DCI-P3 version is much more vibrant, especially the reds, but will not display properly here. Apart from the fact that this picture is rather stunning, what is even more stunning (yes, I'm stunned again) is the fact that yet again you brought up a musician I absolutely love. Gold ole Jorma. Right now I'm reading his self penned Bio which is signed. Pity his Fur Peace Ranch has moved on to new owners Ldina 1 Quote Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. These are not my own words but I sure like this quote.
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