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Lenswork
by Jing He
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10th Place TIE
Lenswork
by Jing He


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Canon DSLR Challenge02-Feb-2004 03:29
Victor, thanks a bunch. I had not noticed it before... -- Jing
Guest 01-Feb-2004 22:41
Oops! Forgot to sign my comment. --Victor
Guest 01-Feb-2004 22:40
Jing,

Thanks for the answers. You may want to clean up the clone artifact near the left of the top drop. You've cloned a bit of the drop itself, and not just the background.
Canon DSLR Challenge01-Feb-2004 20:17
Very cool! nice efect.
Canon DSLR Challenge01-Feb-2004 15:18
Very Very Cool,love the portraits in the water drops, very creative and clever.... Vikas
Canon DSLR Challenge01-Feb-2004 08:15
Thanks guys.

Victor, you are right on both accounts. I cloned the background, because the oringal seemed too unbalanced, and the lighter edge on the one side keeps drawing my attention. By making it symmetrical (I didn't want to alter the picture too much), I try to force the viewer's attention to the middle. As for using a print, instead of a real person, that's because the water drop, like a lens, turns the image upside down, and I want to have the person the right side up. My past experience tells me that I can't really hang a person upside down in a shower for too long ;) So I used a print. You can of course turn the final picture upside down, but the drops will look a little strange, at least in this picture, where it shows the direction of gravity. - Jing
Guest 31-Jan-2004 22:22
I have a couple questions:

First, the background doesn't seem to match the image in the drops. It looks like a mirror-image of the background was cloned to it to give it some symmetry. Am I right?

It's symmetrical, but I think it would have looked better with the original image. Also, it looks like the subject is actually a print and not a person. Is that right? Would it be possible to do this same thing with a person instead of a print, or was there some limitation that necessitated using a print?
-- Victor
Olaf.dk 31-Jan-2004 22:07
First thing I thought of when I read the theme of challenge 8, was a photograph in an old Olympus brochure: It was a flowerplant with dew-drops and with many flowers on it, all out of focus, except through the dew-drops, each drop acting like a lens and with a perfectly sharp flower in it. Here you've used the same effect, but have gotten a whole portrait inside the drops - well done! --Olaf
Timothy O'Connor31-Jan-2004 21:23
This is extremely cool.