Response to Negative Space (Response #22)

Uploaded 691 Days Ago by EssPea - 16 comments

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groen65 said 691 days ago:

Great action shot! The soft tones, white background and the shape of the glass really do it for me.

kadenajack said 691 days ago:

Very nice. The negative space basically creates a photo within a photo. On the one hand it's about a glass, on the other it's about a drop falling into a glass. 5's.

psychodudu said 691 days ago:

Wicked. A really amusing take on the theme, could perhaps have been a little sharper...

EssPea said 691 days ago:

Thanks for the comments! Just a little more info on the low quality and sharpness: This was taken on 35mm film and I only have a flatbed scanner, so I had to scan the 4x6 print of it definitely not a recipe for quality!

luminouslens said 691 days ago:

Good idea for negative space. The placement of the glass and the emptiness above it except for the water is perfect.

I think this could be very striking with a lot more contrast.

King said 691 days ago:

High marks for meeting the technical demands of capturing a splashing water drop--it that is truly what this is. I don't think this was done with electronic flash. I think you ramped up your iso and shot this in daylight with the fastest shutter speed you could get your camera to muster--very fast, indeed.

Could use, IMHO, some judicious cropping.

EssPea said 691 days ago:

Actually I shot this in my basement in complete dark using an electronic flash! The flash was not attached to the camera and the camera was set to B. Open the shutter, fumble in the dark to fire the flash, fumble in the dark to release the cable release. And that doesn't even include dropping the water in the dark from a straw!

kyla said 690 days ago:

like this- the drops make it.

uncommondepth said 689 days ago:

I've seen this before. But it's well done.

philippe said 686 days ago:

I like this.

philippe said 686 days ago:

Comments on technique are sometimes amusing. Even a professional can be wrong?? What do we know?

King said 686 days ago:

philippe
Assuming you are referring to me, and I think you are...
I'm a happy amateur. I like to guess, like anyone. The reason I didn't think this was electronic flash is because technically it isn't very high quality. My thinking was that if a hard-core, professional advertising photographer bothered to set this up in his or her studio with electronic flash, it would have much higher, shall we say, "production values."
Shane, however, is a very clever guy and pulled the wool over my ideas with his low-tech solution.

EssPea said 686 days ago:

I really should take another stab at this now that I have 'instant' feedback and a better setup. :)

This shot was the last shot on the last roll of film I shot before I got my digital. I was flipping through the outtakes and getting nothing, then this last one showed up!

philippe said 686 days ago:

@King: I'm sorry, I understood you were a retired advertising photographer.
And I withdraw what I said: you cannot be wrong. ;O)

King said 686 days ago:

To establish my credentials, may I refer you to

http://www.weeklyshot.org/theme/self-portrait-2/response/88/

King said 686 days ago:

...referring above to philippe. :>)

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