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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 790653" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>For this weeks "2 Color" challenge (who in the world thought <em>that</em> would be a good idea?), I kinda went down a longer road than I intended, lol. I spotted one of my cat's toys - a comical little stuffed fish on a comical little plastic fishing rod - and thought it would make a good subject, as it is 2 and only 2 colors. But then I thought I should put it into some kind of context, rather than just a boring picture of a cat toy. </p><p></p><p>That led to trying to find other objects that matched at least one of the colors. After a while I hit on a bottle of Windex spray cleaner, the liquid of which was almost the same shade of blue as the fish's. After trying various containers, I settled on a glass custard bowl. There wasn't enough Windex to fill it, but that left enough room to drop the fish partially in. I didn't want to submerge it, because the cat still puts it in his mouth daily.</p><p></p><p>The shot I got was ok, but not very interesting. So I hit on taking a second picture with some action, and trying - for the first time! - to try to merge them. So I took a series of shots where I dropped an ice cube into the Windex and clicked the shutter just as it splashed. I picked the best one, then watched a ton of videos on how to merge photos in PhotoShop.</p><p></p><p>Of course, I sucked at it. It also didn't help that I must have moved the tripod or something between shooting the fish, and shooting the splash. The splash shots were decidedly out of focus. Plus I used too slow a shutter speed, which makes the droplets way too soft. And the lighting could be better to bring out their definition.</p><p></p><p> But, for a first attempt, it wasn't a complete disaster. So as much as I'd like to go back and do it again, changing a few things I see now that are problematic, I just don't have time before the deadline. So I'm entering what I've got, and let the chips fly where they may! Or maybe let the fish fly where it may, in this case <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379792[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379793[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379794[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379795[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379905[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 790653, member: 46690"] For this weeks "2 Color" challenge (who in the world thought [I]that[/I] would be a good idea?), I kinda went down a longer road than I intended, lol. I spotted one of my cat's toys - a comical little stuffed fish on a comical little plastic fishing rod - and thought it would make a good subject, as it is 2 and only 2 colors. But then I thought I should put it into some kind of context, rather than just a boring picture of a cat toy. That led to trying to find other objects that matched at least one of the colors. After a while I hit on a bottle of Windex spray cleaner, the liquid of which was almost the same shade of blue as the fish's. After trying various containers, I settled on a glass custard bowl. There wasn't enough Windex to fill it, but that left enough room to drop the fish partially in. I didn't want to submerge it, because the cat still puts it in his mouth daily. The shot I got was ok, but not very interesting. So I hit on taking a second picture with some action, and trying - for the first time! - to try to merge them. So I took a series of shots where I dropped an ice cube into the Windex and clicked the shutter just as it splashed. I picked the best one, then watched a ton of videos on how to merge photos in PhotoShop. Of course, I sucked at it. It also didn't help that I must have moved the tripod or something between shooting the fish, and shooting the splash. The splash shots were decidedly out of focus. Plus I used too slow a shutter speed, which makes the droplets way too soft. And the lighting could be better to bring out their definition. But, for a first attempt, it wasn't a complete disaster. So as much as I'd like to go back and do it again, changing a few things I see now that are problematic, I just don't have time before the deadline. So I'm entering what I've got, and let the chips fly where they may! Or maybe let the fish fly where it may, in this case :) [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379792._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379793._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379794._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379795._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379905._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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