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Faking Fireworks



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A CD, water, and a zoom lens!

A CD, water, and a zoom lens!
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upload_dateJan, 2015

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Awards

People's Choice in Bright Lines Photo Challenge
People's Choice in Abstract or impressionistic fireworks photography Photo Challenge
Outstanding Creativity
Hippiechic FrankSomma ChrisLahoda derektherev edandaniphone Athena_B kellydavenport +2
Magnificent Capture
NatureLoverJJWal jasonspeenburgh
Top Choice
estercastillo08
All Star
catrionaroberts
Peer Award
gaetanstjacques

Top Ranks

Composing with Colors Photo ContestTop 30 rank
Composing with Colors Photo ContestTop 30 rank week 3
Composing with Colors Photo ContestTop 30 rank week 2
Composing with Colors Photo ContestTop 20 rank week 1
Playing With Exposure Photo ContestTop 10 rank
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Playing With Exposure Photo ContestTop 10 rank week 1
Psychedelic Shots Photo ContestTop 30 rank week 2
Color Experiments Photo ContestTop 10 rank
Color Experiments Photo ContestTop 10 rank week 2
Color Experiments Photo ContestTop 20 rank week 1
Exposure Experimentation Photo ContestTop 30 rank

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7 Comments |
kathleenweetman
 
kathleenweetman January 06, 2015
Good one...k
ianhowarth
 
ianhowarth January 07, 2015
welcome to VB - very artistic great effect. Keep up the good work
NatureLoverJJWal
 
NatureLoverJJWal November 19, 2015
This is a winner, voted psychedelic!
estercastillo08
 
estercastillo08 December 02, 2015
Very nice, Psychedelic
NatureLoverJJWal
 
NatureLoverJJWal April 28, 2016
very psychedelic really. Congratulations on your award!
FrankSomma
 
FrankSomma May 22, 2016
Bam! Back to the future. Was this a Pink Floyd album cover ? ;)
NatureLoverJJWal
 
NatureLoverJJWal September 16, 2016
voted composing with colors!

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#zoom #color #fireworks #abstract
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Behind The Lens

Location

In my kitchen, which has the best light in my condo, so it doubles as a studio workspace.

Time

At night. Given the style of photo, I didn't want any sunlight.

Lighting

Since I was experimenting with the zoom effect, I had an led light shinging directly on the surface of the compact disc.

Equipment

An Olympus OMD EM 10 micro four-thirds with the kit 14-40 lens, that I had just bought at the time. Handheld. The compact disc had water sprayed on it. In camera flash. Nothing remarkable.

Inspiration

I had seen photos of zoom effect and was eager to try it with my new camera. I love to experiment and the beauty of digital is that you can experiment all you want.

Editing

Minimal editing - cropped a bit, nothing else.

In my camera bag

These days I have the EM 10 mark ii. I use the Olympus 14-150 as my "walking around lens" as it gives me the greatest choice for least weight, and I truly love my 60 mm macro prime. I have a longer telephoto for bird watching, and a 17 mm prime for street photography.

Feedback

It takes some experimenting to get the zoom effect not blur beyond what you want and give you the effect of fireworks. It gives you a very different if you are zooming out versus zooming in.

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