Magnifying glass

Gallery: FloraPosted August 16, 201094 views14 comments

The small water droplet acting as a magnifying glass.

Techs:
Nikon D300, Tamron 180mm macro, tripod
f/13, ISO200, focus stacked from 2 images - one for the bubble & one for the details inside the bubble.

Critiques welcome.

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Buck Ward on August 16, 2010 at 4:02 PM

Cool effect. Interesting that the view in the droplet is in focus but the yellow center of the flower is beyond the DOF.

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on August 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM

Interesting and beautiful Balakumar. I like it very much. I might play with curves on it a bit though or bring the contrast up on the fg petals. The whites seem a touch flat to me but it may just be my monitor. Very well done.

Pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 16, 2010 at 8:11 PM

Balakumar:
A very creative image. Like how you have emphasized the focus on the drop by keeping the rest of the flower OOF. Striking yellow bg tends to compete with the center of the flower slightly... maybe a darker bg might be better?? Don't really know but may be worth exploring.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 16, 2010 at 8:38 PM

Very cool shot. Nice color and mood.

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Comment posted by Muhammad Zaid Wani on August 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM

Very nice!

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on August 16, 2010 at 9:34 PM

Balakumar: Very cool view. I am curious about the BG. It kind of bothers me a bit as the color kind of competes with the rest of the subject. Nice job on the stack.>=))>

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Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on August 17, 2010 at 8:31 AM

Very, very cool !
Mauro

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM

Excellent magnifying effect using the water drop as the lens there, Bala

- great thinking there to combine two shots.

A different colored background might have increased the pop feel for the photo.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on August 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM

Nice effect, Balakumar. Too cool.

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on August 17, 2010 at 9:21 PM

Neat idea, Balakumar,

And a lovely job stacking images.

One suggestion, and that would be to make the yellow background just a bit more subtle so it doesn't detract from your image.

Cheers,

Carol

Carol

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM

Hi Balakumar

A very imaginative and creative shot.

The foreground is very striking! i would have cropped the upper section above the yellow disk.
Albert Darmo. canada

Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments

Comment posted by Balakumar Kaushik on August 18, 2010 at 4:27 AM

Thank you all for the comments. The yellow BG was intentional to have similar colours in the frame. However, I totally agree with the fact that it currently seems over-powering.
I shall reduce the yellows in the BG as Carol suggested to make it less prominent.