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Konica Minolta Users | all galleries >> KM Challenges >> C16: Optical Illusions - Hosted by Sergio Rojkes >> C16: Optical Illusions - Exhibition > + Keep Your Eyes On The Glass by John down under
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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)






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Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/60s f/5.6 at 16.2mm iso100 with Flash hide exif
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Date/Time24-Jan-2004 12:44:35
MakeMinolta
ModelDiMAGE A1
Flash UsedYes
Focal Length16.2 mm
Exposure Time1/60 sec
Aperturef/5.6
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias0.30
White Balance
Metering Modecenter weighted (2)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture 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 Gatti07-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 Users05-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 Users04-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