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19-JUN-2004 Pops

Three Wishes *

The Genie is out of the bottle and we all get three wishes.

My First wish is that all challengers had a Digital Rebel or a 10D, oh, heck let's go for a 1D plus assorted lenses
My Second Wish is that every challenger would win at least one challenge
My Third wish is that no challenger would ever submit a file over 150K, ever!

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
0.80s f/16.0 at 35.0mm iso100 full exif

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blademeister 21-Jun-2004 15:15
Pops - well executed. I love utilizing low-tech tricks to create a work of art. The sand and dark background really enhance this photograph. Got props from me.

blade
ctfchallenge21-Jun-2004 11:43
Looks good Pops, I really like the smoke!!!! Neil
ctfchallenge21-Jun-2004 02:06
ooh, very very nice. I very much want for your first wish to come true ;-)
- Techo
Julian Hebbrecht19-Jun-2004 21:56
Pops you're a magician!
gina_dl19-Jun-2004 21:20
Wow!
Great, I love glass and these bottles are awesome. Great capture and PS too!


gina
Nugar19-Jun-2004 21:15
btw, I wish I had a 1Ds
Nugar19-Jun-2004 21:15
Just when you think you've seen great pictures, BAM! Pops surprises me with a great one. Nice, nice, nice execution, both photographical and "photoshopical". Kudos.
ctfchallenge19-Jun-2004 21:12
I was already crazy about these bottles then you go an add the sand and smoke. Wonderful effect. I hope you haven't broken any, your daughter will have your head. The colors in the glass with the gold and the smoke, what an effet(did I already say that)
melissa
Guest 19-Jun-2004 18:02
Pssst, Mary Anne, don't tell anybody but this is a composite of two photographs. I took about a dozen of the bottles and about two dozen of the smoke using three peices of incense (One peice of incense just didn't give enough smoke) (And a tip of the fedora to Neil Lawson for the inspiration to use incense, see Challenge 55). The smoke was resized for the bottles and rotated just a bit and then copied and pasted in place.
ctfchallenge19-Jun-2004 15:55
I can almost see a genie materializing in the smoke. Just out of curiosity, how many tries did it take to get this one?

Mary Anne
ctfchallenge19-Jun-2004 13:43
Great smoke shot. It looks like a real desert in your house! 8-) theFly