Going soggy again :)

Lord Vetinari

Playing around as usual. These are all raindrop shots that have been inverted. The last two have had the hue changed and some de-saturation, I thought it made them look almost like underwater shots. C&C appreciated.
Brian V.

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Justin Stagge

Wow
Those are AMAZING!!!! I am not sure what to say besides I would really like to see that last one with stronger saturation just for curiosity reasons.

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Playing around as usual. These are all raindrop shots that have been inverted. The last two have had the hue changed and some de-saturation, I thought it made them look almost like underwater shots. C&C appreciated.
Brian V.

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Hi Brian ....... these look like a unique little undewater world of some kind.
Excellent work great colours, spot on with the sharpness as per usual what can I say ??? I love your work ..... Skippy

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Awais Yaqub

wow as always great and very inspiring work really want to meet you someday

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the kind comments
Well Awais- if you ever come to Britain
Brian V.

chulium

You're my hero Those shots are superb!

tmlphoto

The last one is my favorite, because of the really abstract look. The background is very good as well. It have a kind of multidimensional look that is very pleasing.

Seefutlung

Equally amazing as they are wonderful ... so Lord, how much time do you put in to ... say ... one image? (on average)

Gary

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments chulium, Thomas and Gary very much appreciated.

Thomas- the last shot is my favourite to

Gary- For focus stacked shots like this (say from 4 shots each), it would be something like this for one finished pic.
Taking shot sequence 0.5 mins
RAW processing 0.5 mins
Focus stacking 2.0 mins
Trimming and correcting focus stack 2.0 mins
PS work- de-noise, sensor dust removal, levels correction (if needed), Inversion, then playing with hue and saturation levels about 4.0 mins max.
So total = about 10 mins max.
I'm not an expert on PS at all so do not get into anything complicated (layer masking etc).
I do take a lot of shots though- I suspect I average about 100 a day throughout the year.

Brian V.

Seefutlung

wow ... ten minutes ... pretty good. That doesn't count the time to see/hunt/find the initial image. The last shot looks like some space formation taken from the Hubble.

G

Lord Vetinari

Seefutlung wrote:

wow ... ten minutes ... pretty good. That doesn't count the time to see/hunt/find the initial image. The last shot looks like some space formation taken from the Hubble.

G

Doesn't take too long to find some shots in the garden . The last two shots are just raindrops on the new leaves of a potentilla shrub- the young leaves are very hairy and fairly hydrophobic.
Brian V.

System

everybody's been so eloquent in responding to these photos-


I think I'll join in-



WOW!-

Lord Vetinari

gefillmore wrote:

everybody's been so eloquent in responding to these photos-


I think I'll join in-



WOW!-

Thanks George
Brian V.