* Gold of Mine by Canon DSLR Challenge

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24-SEP-2005	Lonnit Rysher

* Gold of Mine

This is some gold I panned myself when
I visited California about 8 years ago.
I'd been wanting to do it since a college
geology class, so it was very exciting to
finally have the opportunity.

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/90s f/2.8 at 70.0mm iso100 full exif

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Canon DSLR Challenge		04-Oct-2005 03:33
Beautiful neon and gold glow! If only the image could be bigger. Roumen

Guest		03-Oct-2005 23:53
Nice Image Lonnit, (*)little niggles; the background drop-off is a bit fast if you know what I mean. Not sure a central composition works head on like this. The light is very nice, as are the colours, Rob

niemand		03-Oct-2005 01:22
Looks like somebody's trapped Tinkerbell! Cool lighting effect.

Guest		28-Sep-2005 18:31
Wow Angela! Thank you VERY much! :) ~ Lonnit

Guest		27-Sep-2005 23:02
Wow, Lonnit, that's totally cool! Great lighting. I mean, really great.

Guest		27-Sep-2005 21:23
From what I've heard, they do something similar on Star Trek when people use the transporter. Supposedly they use glitter stirred in a glass of water. Now that I've done it myself, I see how well the concept can work. Yes, it does look like an enormous source of energy. ~ Lonnit

Leo Charette		25-Sep-2005 17:50
The lighting and reflection gives wonderful impact. Image has a lot of energy. Nice!

Guest		25-Sep-2005 17:31
Thanks guys. This was my first time attempting this type of lighting. I had this on a glass table with a camping light below, a piece of black construction paper behind, and a flashlight to the right. I put the flashlight at an angle between the bottle and the background and adjusted the angle until I got the left side of the bottle's edge to light up. It still amazes me how you can shoot an image like this in normal room brightness and have it look like the room is dark. ~ Lonnit

Canon DSLR Challenge		25-Sep-2005 12:22
It almost looks neon. Cool effect. theFly

Canon DSLR Challenge		25-Sep-2005 09:32
Very nice Lonnit. My kids have a bottle of "real gold" but sadly it says as much on the bottle, which rather spoils the effect... I really like what you have done here, very much indeed. Phil

Canon DSLR Challenge		24-Sep-2005 23:09
Thanks Armin. There's also a tiny bit of that reddish picked up in the curve of the glass that just goes under the lid. It might be from the reflection of the flashlight off the black paper background. This image took a lot of fiddling to bring up the colors. Without the red it was duller; the red added something to it all, I felt. ~ Lonnit

arminb		24-Sep-2005 19:26
Dammit, Lonnit, again such a beautiful graphical post! But I have to beg you, please, do not use the mixture on yourself! :-) One question, what about the red in the right? ~Armin