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12-JAN-2003

Bubblicious by L. Grouell

Ok, so they aren't ACTUALLY bubbles..... I took this picture when Jack and I first started trying out our digital cameras and challenged each other with topics. I experimented with PSE to selectively bring out the color in some of the 'bubbles'. (Thanks for the tips, John.)

Minolta DiMAGE S304
1/64s f/3.6 at 15.5mm iso125 full exif

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Guest 08-Jun-2004 00:38
Thanks, John. I'll follow the links and check it out. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. One of the things I was trying to do was somewhat 'trick the eye'. If you look at this enough, you start to get surprised by which has color and which doesn't. Your eye will try to fill in color from time to time. Maybe too subtle.
L.
Guest 05-Jun-2004 08:21
Hi Linda,
Glad you've been able to apply some newfound knowledge in PSE2. You never kknow when it might come in handy in the future.
Thanks for another unique variation on the theme. This one would even be at home in the Reflections Challenge.
I personally find the colour much too subtle to do much for me here. I would be inclined to go to town with colour on selected balls to see how that looked. I would even consider creating a pattern with the coloured balls. It could be as simple as a basic C (or something else to suit your title idea) or possibly something more ambitious like what you see in a a colour-blindness test chart that shows a letter in one series of colours against a background of different colours (if you are not colour blind of course).
On the off chance you might be interested in seeing them, here are a couple of links a friend sent me on using reflective spheres in case I wanted to use them for the CHAOS Challenge and they would have even worked for the Reflections Challenge, but I didn't get around to giving them a try.
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/Spheres_Photos/spheres_photo.html
http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/articles/henry.html

Cheers, John