5/28/2003 4:01:42 AM

What cool work. I really dig it!

I love the curves and the color. It is just great!

Great image!

Mike... I love this! The excellent color, lines and very creative! I expect to see this in the winners circle!!

This is a great photo! Would you mind telling me how you did it? I am new to photography and want to learn as much as I can. Thanks in advance.

Congrats - such an interesting, different look!

Michael, I love this shot. You've done a great job with the composition. The lines and curves are such a study! Good luck in the finals, and keep shooting!

Congrats and didn't I see this one on photosig also...i'm still trying to figure out what it is...help!

Given the recent trend toward compositional winners here at BP, I think your wonderful frame has a very good shot at a rewarding finish! Great work, Michael!

Very pretty. Congrats and GOOD LUCK! Cheryl

This is such an incredible image...I fully expect it to be in the winner's circle! Would you PLEASE share how you did it?

Thanks everyone!

This image is really rather simple. It's an upside-down martini glass (fancy variety with the curvaceous stem) placed in front of a set of venetion blinds. Light was provided by a table lamp with the shade swiveled to give an interesting effect.

I shot the photo in RAW mode and adjusted the white balance for fluorescent (though it was shot under tungsten) when I developed the TIFF file for processing. This gives it the orange glow. Processing the image was as follows: slight crop to the original, levels and curves adjustment, a few minor spot edits to get get rid of some stray reflections and a couple of hot pixels, resized and sharpened.

I don't think of it as a digital art creation, but rahter, as a photo with a creative white balance.

Michael

WOW...I had no idea that changing from RAW to TIFF would result in an orange glow! I guess, along with the white balalce set to fluorescent...I'll have to try that one...You got an amazing result! I never would have seen the martini glass...I thought it was some kind of gel-like substance oozing out of a disc-shaped...something! Thanks so much for sharing your secrets...I really appreciate it!

Congratulations - well deserved!

Hi Michael!
What brings you over to this neck of the woods?
Congrats on winning with this great shot....I think I've seen it before!
Take Care,
Terry

Michael, this is absolutly a stunning photograph! Congrats on a well deserved win! What I like even more though is how you spent the time to explain how you created this piece of art. We all have different strengths and weaknesses, and different amounts of experience. To me that is what BP is about is helping others improve their work and sharing our strengths. Thank you for doing that! I would have never known what this photo even was if you had not explained it. LOL

Congratulations, Michael! This is a very cool photograph!

A well deserved win Michael!!!!!! It is absoluitely STUNNING and deserves all the recognition and more!!!

A well deserved win Michael!!!!!! It is absoluitely STUNNING and deserves all the recognition and more!!!

Great image. Congratulations, Michael.

A striking image, just leaps off the page. Congrats on your win!

Absolutely superb image, well done on your place in the winners circle!!

Excellent.. beautifully abstract. Congratulations.

WOW - this is great! Congrats!

Damian's words are mine also! Congratulations!!
Well-deserved!
birdie

Great imagination, very well thought out and perfectly executed! Makes for an exceptional abstract image and a very well deserved win! Congratulations, Michael!

Congrats Micheal!!!! I knew you were gonna win....again! Im so proud to think of you as an aquintance of mine and a fellow photographer/Arkansas.

Keep up the great work.

Anona W. Boyte

Wow, this is one hottie of a photo! Love it! And, thanks so much for taking the time out to share your techniques used to create this beauty!

Congratulations, Michael!

Cathy :)

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