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24-JAN-2004

+ Keep Your Eyes On The Glass by John down under

Adelaide, Australia

Some of you will have seen this image of Molly with a prop or two before from C3 - Diagonals, but here it is again for some fun, which is what this Challenge should be all about. :o)

source photo

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/60s f/5.6 at 16.2mm iso100 with Flash hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	24-Jan-2004 12:44:35
Make	Minolta
Model	DiMAGE A1
Flash Used	Yes
Focal Length	16.2 mm
Exposure Time	1/60 sec
Aperture	f/5.6
ISO Equivalent	100
Exposure Bias	0.30
White Balance
Metering Mode	center weighted (2)
JPEG Quality	(6)
Exposure Program	aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Guest		08-Sep-2004 16:29
Staffordshire bull terrier? I'm thinking one small keg away from Saint Bernard (but then she'd need to balance a snifter). Very nice pic and quality PP.

Claudio Gatti		07-Sep-2004 05:04
Ahh. an oldie but goodie! Yes, I think this is the image that brought Molly officially to stardom in the Challenge! Claudio

Konica Minolta Users		05-Sep-2004 19:29
The glass shadow, excellent! Ser

Guest		05-Sep-2004 04:57
Thanks Kimberly. This was my first attempt at any quite substantial Photoshop manipulation. I was using PSE2 at the time. It took some effort to bring the elements together. I photographed the wine bottle separately and added that first aong with desaturation and selective colouring. I photographed the glass of wine separately leaning at an angle and added that next. Finally, I added the glass shadow by holding the glass in about the right position with a clamp set in a vice and taking a photo to see what the shadow looked like, then cloning out the clamp and blending the glass into the image. I also held the glass to see what the line between the tiles would look like in the base of the glass, then drew the curved line in manually using a dodge brush. I kept replacing the image in the Diagonals Exhibition Gallery with updated versions throughout the Diagonals Challenge, with the glass shadow appearing last after Claudio pointed out that I had forgotten to include a fake shadow. The experience was fun and rewarding for me and hopefully amusing for people to see it taking shape, even if I didn't have a Wacom tablet like I now do. :o) Molly had already appeared in all the previous Challenges, but I think this one helped to cement her place in the Challenges folklore. ;o) Cheers, John

Guest		04-Sep-2004 20:28
Wow! What a pro at photoshop :) I just came from looking at your original trying to figure out how in the world you did this. Love it!

Konica Minolta Users		04-Sep-2004 03:54
Red nose, she has to get drunk to do that trick? What she wouldn't do with an argentinian Chardonay... I love molly already Ser

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