Slice O' Geode

eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
edited March 9, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
A little experiment with lighting. Backlit with an LED flashlight, front lighting courtesy of a Mini Mag flashlight.

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2008
    eL eSs Vee wrote:
    A little experiment with lighting. Backlit with an LED flashlight, front lighting courtesy of a Mini Mag flashlight.

    Cutting remarks and platitudes gleefully accepted.

    Nice one Lee clap.gif such beautiful colour in that Geode,
    and it's a good EGG shape too.

    The only thing I would alter is the background at the base of the rock.
    you can see there are some odd shadow flaws around the base of the rock.

    I'm wondering if you tried to clone something out there?

    Love that ROCK ... Good Shot Lee thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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  • Jack'll doJack'll do Registered Users Posts: 2,977 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2008
    Very beautiful image Lee. Fine example of making the most of the tools you have at hand.
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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2008
    Skippy wrote:
    Nice one Lee clap.gif such beautiful colour in that Geode,
    and it's a good EGG shape too.

    The only thing I would alter is the background at the base of the rock.
    you can see there are some odd shadow flaws around the base of the rock.

    I'm wondering if you tried to clone something out there?

    Love that ROCK ... Good Shot Lee thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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    Thank you very much, Skippy. clap.gif

    Either you're very good or you lightened the image (I'll go with very good mwink.gif), because I cloned out an acrylic base. It's also dark at the bottom because I needed a gobo to cut down on light hitting that base and causing bad reflections. Unfortunately, the only way to keep them to a minimum was to shadow the rock a little, too.
    Jack'll do wrote:
    Very beautiful image Lee. Fine example of making the most of the tools you have at hand.

    Thank you, Jack'll. Speaking of "tools at hand," the gobo mentioned above was a pocket knife in a black leather case on its side. :D
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2008
    That's fantastic. It looks like a Pacific volcano, surrounded by a reef. But the snow's a dead give-away that it ain't in Polynesia, eh?
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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2008
    very nice! thumb.gifthumb
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2008
    Very nice thumb.gif. To my eyes, it seems as if only the center portion is in focus though headscratch.gif
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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2008
    ivar wrote:
    Very nice thumb.gif. To my eyes, it seems as if only the center portion is in focus though headscratch.gif

    First, thank you. :D

    Second, now that you mention it, it does seem a tad out of focus top and bottom. It was leaning away from the camera a bit, but I thought I'd had a small enough aperature. Now I know I didn't. Thank you for pointing that out.
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  • SerratorSerrator Registered Users Posts: 227 Major grins
    edited March 9, 2008
    Very nicely done. I like it!
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