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Water Colour

© Graham J. Weiss

Water Colour

Uploaded: June 11, 2007

Description

Aperture f4.5, Shutter speed hand held @ 1/50 sec, Nikkor 18-70 @ 46mm focal length.

This image is as shot, apart from highlights and shadow adjustment, some cropping, minor saturation enhancement and sharpening in PSCS (CS2) and some Dlighting (shadows) lifting in Nikon Capture.

The 'ripple' effect is purely from water constantly trickling down the outside feature (30 feet high) glass walls of our National Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria, the effect itself is not a post process filter effect.

Here, I'm inside the foyer of the gallery looking outside. The subjects of my image are on the outside of the glass.

Comments

Jeff Robinson level-deluxe June 11, 2007

Excellent work Graham! Jeff #671897

Linda L. Ruiz June 11, 2007

Graham this is a super shot. Love it. #4386523

Renee Doyle June 11, 2007

Great 'water colour' Graham!!!
Very effective - and great to see another aussie here!
#4387546

Arlene Krassner June 11, 2007

Graham this is stunning. And that it was done without a filter is even more impressive. #4387752

Nobu Nagase June 22, 2007

Great work!
Love the way you captured it. #4425254

Graham J. Weiss June 23, 2007

Hi guys, thanks so much for your great comments and feedback on this image. I'm pretty fond of my ladies :)

G'day Renee. great to see you and your awesome gallery also. I'm awestruck by some of the talent at BP! #4429390

Faisal Almalki June 25, 2007

Very creative. Beautiful idea and execution. Well done. #4436263

Ronda Chatelle level-classic June 28, 2007

AMAZING image Graham! Excellent title and imformative description! Congrats on Editors First Pick!!! Well deserved! #4452487

Jean E. Hildebrant July 02, 2007

Love the effect the water feature created! Creative and artistic result. #4466676

Maria Zammit level-classic July 24, 2007

Congratulations on your finalist Graham! Personal opinion though is wouldn't classify this as "Nature and Landscapes"? #4551442

Sherry Sturgis July 25, 2007

I love taking photos thru wet glass and windows! Rainy days are sometimes the best days!!! This is wonderful!!! Many Congratulations, Graham! Excellent Capture! #4559444

David Pratt July 26, 2007

Terrific work Graham! This must be a very neat building. Great capture! Congrats on being a finalist! #4561571

Maria Zammit level-classic July 26, 2007

May I be first to congratulate you on your Second Place win Graham! #4562209

Vikram Jamwal July 26, 2007

This is a wonderful picture Graham, many congratulations on the winner, and thanks for those descriptions along with the pick (they really help to understand). Overall - loved this pic and the effect that you were able to capture! - vikram #4562560

July 26, 2007

Wonderful capture! Congrats! #4562841

Colleen Farrell July 26, 2007

Congrats on your great win, Graham! #4562846

Wendy Stevenson July 26, 2007

Congratulations on a fine win Graham! Love the effect the water brings to this and the great colours!! #4562906

Gerri R. Jones July 26, 2007

Congratulations on your second place win with this beautiful and creative image Graham! Great Work!! #4562925

Kay E. Mahoney level-classic July 26, 2007

Congratulations on your second place winner. #4563894

RC Fritz July 26, 2007

Terrific image. Congratulations on your WINNER!! #4565183

Heather July 26, 2007

Congrats on Your win! #4565205

Graham J. Weiss July 26, 2007

G'day guys. Thanks so much for all your terrific comments. I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback. Very encouraging. Hi Maria. Thanks for picking up the category point. I actually do see this image as a combination of 'Nature and Landscape' at least here at BP. I've also categorised my colourful ladies as Still Life. I value them above a 'Catch All' or 'People' category, as they represent several things to me...a French impressionistic feel (to me at least) and the image isn't just aboout 'people', 'detail' nor an event. It's a moment in time that may never be repeated, and perhaps not something you can categorise at all! I guess it's about me painting with light. I welcome that it may be whatever it is for you too :) Very sweet of you to be the first to congratulate me. My image was captured fairly spontaneously and is an interesting juxtoposition of time and space. At the time of capturing Water Colour (which I have also titled 'Tres En Couleur'), I had just finished viewing the Dutch Masters exhibition inside our gallery, on loan from Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam the amazing works of such masters as Rembrandt, Johannes and Vermeer - and I guess I was just reflecting on what I had experienced. I'd spotted the subjects only a few moments before, who were walking past the window, and the reaction of the colours of their clothing with the trickling water caught my eye. I wasn't going for a painterly effect as such, but that's what seems to have resulted!

The waterwall here is a wonderful tactile feature...everyone that comes to visit the gallery wanders up to touch the wall...infants in prams, kids and adults all love the effect and feel as they interact with the trickling water. I have some images I've shot from 'my' side of the glass of this interaction I hope to share with you.

I too, love rain and water and ice Sherry and the amazing unpredictable distortions and refractions it does to light and colour. Right now in Melbourne, (and Australia in general)we're still teetering on one of our worst droughts in a very long time; most of the country is restricted in some ways as to how much water and when we are able to use...makes me appreciate our resources even more. Gerri and Wendy, thank you...it's lovely to bump into you again...Congratulations to both of you on your wonderful images also, you're both photographers whose work I have admired for a long time.

Thanks heaps everyone for taking time to stop by and comment. I look forward to popping into all of your galleries for a wander and chat :)

Many thanks also to the team and judges at BP. #4565312

Kathleen R. Struckle July 26, 2007

Congrats Graham on this awesome win!! #4565595

Nobu Nagase July 27, 2007


Dreary rainy days can be so beautiful when captured as you have in this image with touch of colors and right lighting.

Congratulations on your fabulous win! #4568999

Silvana Stanzer level-classic July 28, 2007

Congratulation on this beautiful composition, you deserve it for sure, Silvana #4571564

Robin R. July 28, 2007

Great capture and congrats on the win. #4572906

RC Fritz July 30, 2007

Congratulations, Graham!! #4580332

Toni A. Martin August 02, 2007

Wonderful creative image Graham. Beautiful, I thought it was snow. Congrats and keep up the creative mind! #4591432

Janine Russell level-classic August 07, 2007

Graham, big congratulations on your Second Place Winner! #4616603

Patrick R. McMullen August 12, 2007

Congratulations Graham! Creative use of what is available to us all, and most don't see.
Pat #4636323

Graham J. Weiss August 12, 2007

Thanks heaps guys! #4636658

Robert Baer August 26, 2007

graham
i really love this image. great "eye" to see this! congratulations on a wonderful win! #4700159

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