Wet Crayons

Gallery: FloraPosted July 13, 2014122 views13 comments

I used some high-speed shooting to try & freeze the drops/movement, with a more distant group of flowers for background.
These are garden zinnias, and the water drops are from our garden sprinkler. The various colors/shades/patterns in the background reminded me of 'wet crayons'.
Call me strange

F/5.6, 1/3200th, ISO 400, 1D M3, 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x & sunny/clear afternoon light @ 5:37pm. Monopod for support & shot in a vertical orientation.

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 13, 2014 at 9:30 AM

Dear Strange: What have you done with Howard? Really good idea and a fine result. Delightful shot. >=))>

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on July 13, 2014 at 10:14 AM

Hey Sir Strange

Man !

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on July 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM

Very creative. I like the result !

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on July 13, 2014 at 2:49 PM

Very cool image, Howard! I love the frozen motion of the water drops and the colorful bg.

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Comment posted by gary phillips on July 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM

OK Mr. Strange. Only someone with an incredible background in coloring, or with a bunch of grandkids could come up with something like wet crayons. I really like the result of your experiment, Howard

Love the frozen water drops and a beautiful color pallet. I also like how the strange one is thinking out of the box.

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Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on July 13, 2014 at 10:45 PM

Nice one Howard. Interesting concept and well executed. Nicely done!

Sanjay

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 13, 2014 at 11:10 PM

Howard - Great experiment. Try for some streaks next time - I wonder how they would compare to the drops frozen here. I can give you some company when it comes to strangeness wrt colors in the background. I love those colorful backgrounds like you do.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on July 15, 2014 at 8:55 AM

Those frozen drops are wild, Howard. They look to me like raindrops on a window. Neat experiment, very well done! I like the background but think that cropping out about half of the oof area up top puts more emphasis on the drops and the one sharp zinnia.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 15, 2014 at 9:39 AM

Here's your version Mark..
Composed the original the way I did for two reasons.
Larger file (affects my consideration heavily), and I kinda liked the elliptical pattern of 'crayons' in the original URC..

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Comment posted by scott lanz on July 15, 2014 at 7:50 PM

Very creative and an awesome result, Howard. I like both versions a lot, but the cropped one a pinch more.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on July 15, 2014 at 9:11 PM

Hi Howard

Like Scott said. i like both versions ....... can't agree to what i like better, the beautiful BG or the croped version, with the enlarged water drops .. beautiful and creative work :