Challenge #31 - Fire & Ice

dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
edited February 4, 2005 in The Dgrin Challenges
This is my first entry in the challenges. Critiques welcome.

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  • aero-nutaero-nut Registered Users Posts: 693 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    Awsome composition! The lighting is very nice too. What did you use for the flame? A drop or two of alchohol?
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  • dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    aero-nut wrote:
    Awsome composition! The lighting is very nice too. What did you use for the flame? A drop or two of alchohol?
    Thanks. I used isopropyl alchohol and a bit of paper so that it wouldn't burn too quickly.
    Dan
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    you've really got something here!

    i'm not sure the tray, and it's lines, add a whole lot (they don't detract, either)

    what i'm thinking is some kind of pedestal for your ice pile... imagine the ice/fire, set off from the bg, sort of floating there...

    clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif well done dan!
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  • dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    andy wrote:
    you've really got something here!

    i'm not sure the tray, and it's lines, add a whole lot (they don't detract, either)

    what i'm thinking is some kind of pedestal for your ice pile... imagine the ice/fire, set off from the bg, sort of floating there...

    clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif well done dan!
    Thanks Andy! Actually, I have a bit of a confession to make. That's not real ice. It's actually a piece of quartz crystal I had lying around. I couldn't get a real piece of ice to burn. The fire is provided by a few drops of VCR head cleaner fluid, which is alchohol based. A few drops of water to simulate the melting effect and voila! Another dkoyanagi low budget special. :)
    Dan
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    dan
    dkoyanagi wrote:
    Thanks Andy! Actually, I have a bit of a confession to make. That's not real ice. It's actually a piece of quartz crystal I had lying around. I couldn't get a real piece of ice to burn. The fire is provided by a few drops of VCR head cleaner fluid, which is alchohol based. A few drops of water to simulate the melting effect and voila! Another dkoyanagi low budget special. :)

    a good magician *never* kisses and tells. lol3.gif
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  • dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    andy wrote:
    a good magician *never* kisses and tells. lol3.gif
    Whoops! Forget everything I just said. In fact it wasn't me who made that last post. I was someone else. Yeah, that's it.
    Dan
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    Okay...that's it. Tomorrow, I'm going to go buy a block of ice, five gallons of gasoline, and a box of road flares tomorrow. I'll show you...

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 30, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Okay...that's it. Tomorrow, I'm going to go buy a block of ice, five gallons of gasoline, and a box of road flares tomorrow. I'll see you in the burn unit....

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    fixed.
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  • Michael AllenMichael Allen Registered Users Posts: 196 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2005
    You've got my vote. I've spent the morning (I hadn't seen your post yet) tring to burn an ice cube. Everything dilutes too fast. Oh well, back to the drawing board. By the way, nice comp and photo.thumb.gif
    -Mike
  • Tim KirkwoodTim Kirkwood Registered Users Posts: 900 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2005
    Dan,


    What a great idea! You have rasied the bar!
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  • dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2005
    Thanks, Michael and Tim!
    Dan
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited February 1, 2005
    Loving it!


    dkoyanagi wrote:
    This is my first entry in the challenges. Critiques welcome.

    15070764-M-1.jpg

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    Date Taken: 2005-01-30 16:19:46 Date Digitized: 2005-01-30 16:19:46 Date Modified: 2005-01-30 17:18:11 Make: SONY Model: DSC-F828 Size: 3464x2648 Bytes: 796904 Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 64 Focal Length: 45.5mm Exposure Time: 0.2s (10/50) JPEG Quality: 8 Flash: Flash fired, compulsory flash mode Exposure Program: Manual Exposure Bias: 0 ExposureMode: 1 ColorSpace: sRGB
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  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    Nice shot.. good compostion to me and kept my attention. I like the water droplets as well.
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  • TristanPTristanP Registered Users Posts: 1,107 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2005
    Excellent! I was thinking of trying something like that, but you beat me to it. I love it.
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  • dkoyanagidkoyanagi Registered Users Posts: 656 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2005
    Thanks Angelo, Lynn and Tristan!
    Dan
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  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2005
    Great picture! thumb.gif You might be a very good magician or perhaps you are?! rolleyes1.gif

    EDIT: Deleted some technical stuff which was not concerning your picture, but about smugmug in general.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 4, 2005
    I went "oh my" when I saw that put up. That is about my highest compliment. And I haven't changed my mind.

    great idea, carried out very "fine" on the photography side.

    ginger
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