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Contest Finalist in Glass Photo Contest
Contest Finalist in Image Of The Month Photo Contest Vol 17
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Esalon
December 07, 2016
Amazing shot! Attention drawn by the drops of water in focus with a beautiful woman, out of focus, on the other side of glass door pulling your attention/emotions back. Thank you for a memory I'd long forgotten.
andrewlpaul
December 14, 2016
Beautiful bokeh! Great composition. Love the movement with the water droplets.
ianmillar
December 15, 2016
I love this shot..it shows me so many different emotions. Awesome shot!!!
angelabravin
February 01, 2017
Hi Stéphane, I just saw that this lovely photo is amongst the finalists of the Image of the Month Photo Contest Vol. 17.....congratulations!
adavies
August 29, 2017
Great image! Nicely done! If you haven't done so already, please consider joining my Make a Mess portrait challenge:)
https:// viewbug.com/challenge/make-a-mess-no-nudes-photo-challenge-by-adavies
https:// viewbug.com/challenge/make-a-mess-no-nudes-photo-challenge-by-adavies
adavies
November 20, 2017
Still love it... If you haven't done so already, please consider joining my Through the Looking Glass challenge:)
https://viewbug.com/challenge/through-the-looking-glass-photo-challenge-by-adavies
https://viewbug.com/challenge/through-the-looking-glass-photo-challenge-by-adavies
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Location
Well.. it's a shower.Time
Well.. it's a shower in a bathroom without windows so it doesn't matter.Lighting
In a tight space, a single speedlight hung high in a corner can do wonders. In that case a SB-900 strapped with a sock and slaved to my camera pop-up flash. Light is diffused through bed sheets.Equipment
Old broken D700 + 50mm 1.4 + SB-900 + sock +bed sheets +pegsInspiration
This is an old classic, done many times. It has to happen at some point or another, at least just for training. There are quite a few things to play with: focusing is critical with three elements to choose from; the pattern of the water drops can be tuned with the way the hose sprinkles water; and if using hot water, steam builds up quickly and brings an extra prop to the picture. Moreover: no way to liquefy anything in post with a checkered background.Editing
Skin is out of focus so everything's smooth already. That pic mostly took a bit of colour work to balance everything even. Liquefying definitely not recommended.In my camera bag
I thought of bringing a backpack to the bathroom but it wasn't really far since it was actually -my- bathroom so I decided I wouldn't need any backpack.Feedback
If you're using a pop-up flash as a commander for slaved speedlights and shooting straight at a window, deflect the light coming from the pop up flash so that it doesn't reflect in the glass. The pop up flash in commander mode isn't supposed to fire if set to "-" when the shutter opens but it does no matter what. On a D700 at least.