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30-MAY-2004 Matthew Shuter

A brush with colour by Matt Shuter

Spent hours playing with a tank of water and some of my kid's water colour paints. I shot about 150 pictures and the final choice came from about 6 that I was happy with.
This is version 2 with some post procesing applied (levels and saturation) to clear the murky background.
Now on Version 3, thanks to JDU Ingo and Ondrej.

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/160s f/9.0 at 50.7mm iso100 full exif

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Matt Shuter05-Jun-2004 17:35
Hi John,
I did try several different angles for the brush and I preffered a more sideways approach, but all the ones I tried that way the paint was not right so I settled on this image.
As for the artefacts I think the bluish stuff on the shaft of the brush is the reflection from the silver shaft that has been blown during the levels adjustment. I can only just make out the other bits. My monitor has been calibrated with Adobe Gamma so I am fairly sure its showing a decent picture. I think it may be that I am looking at things that I know are there and therfore when people mention artefacts I am dismissing what I know is there and looking for something else. Make sense??!!!
Guest 05-Jun-2004 09:17
Hi Matt,
Thanks for another unique idea. I wondered how you figured out the technique and your description helps me to understand how your result evolved. I'm impressed by your effort. Did you try some different framing to put the brush head at different positions further from the centre-lines?
Even with the not-so-capable monitor I've borrowed, the main artifacts I can see are two bluish triangles sticking out from the lower side of the metal shaft and take up the whole length, a smaller white square above and to the right of the shaft and a smaller bluish rectangle to the lower left of the brush head. If you can't see them, I'd say your monitor is not adjusted properly or is not capable of being adjusted properly. The simple approach is to turn the contrast to max, turn the brightness to max and back the brightness off until you can see enough detail without being too bright.
Cheers, John
Matt Shuter04-Jun-2004 19:42
I must admit that I am struggling to see the bluish artefacts. I have blown the original up to 300% on my screen and the only thing I can see is the very small drops of paint and the bristles on the edge of the brush.
Guest 03-Jun-2004 23:25
Matt, it's a good idea but I see some strange blueish artifacts around the brush, seems to me like the rest of post-processing in the editor...