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Water Colour


 
BetterPhoto.com All Time Best Photo Contest Editor's Pick BetterPhoto.com Photo Contest SECOND PLACE Winner   Water Colour
Water Colour
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.

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Excellent work Graham! Jeff


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June 11, 2007

 

Linda L. Ruiz
  Graham this is a super shot. Love it.


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June 11, 2007

 

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


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June 11, 2007

 

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


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June 11, 2007

 

Nobu Nagase
  Great work!
Love the way you captured it.


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June 22, 2007

 

Graham J. Weiss
  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!


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June 23, 2007

 

Faisal Almalki
  Very creative. Beautiful idea and execution. Well done.


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June 25, 2007

 
- Ronda Chatelle

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


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June 28, 2007

 

Jean E. Hildebrant
  Love the effect the water feature created! Creative and artistic result.


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July 02, 2007

 
- Maria Zammit

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


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July 24, 2007

 

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


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July 25, 2007

 

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


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July 26, 2007

 
- Maria Zammit

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


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July 26, 2007

 

Vikram Jamwal
  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


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July 26, 2007

 

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  Wonderful capture! Congrats!


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July 26, 2007

 

Colleen Farrell
  Congrats on your great win, Graham!


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July 26, 2007

 

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


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July 26, 2007

 

Gerri R. Jones
  Congratulations on your second place win with this beautiful and creative image Graham! Great Work!!


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July 26, 2007

 
- Kay E. Mahoney

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  Congratulations on your second place winner.


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July 26, 2007

 

RC Fritz
  Terrific image. Congratulations on your WINNER!!


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July 26, 2007

 

Heather
  Congrats on Your win!


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July 26, 2007

 

Graham J. Weiss
  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.


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July 26, 2007

 

Kathleen R. Struckle
  Congrats Graham on this awesome win!!


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July 26, 2007

 

Nobu Nagase
 
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!


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July 27, 2007

 
- Silvana Stanzer

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


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July 28, 2007

 

Robin R.
  Great capture and congrats on the win.


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July 28, 2007

 

RC Fritz
  Congratulations, Graham!!


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July 30, 2007

 

Toni A. Martin
  Wonderful creative image Graham. Beautiful, I thought it was snow. Congrats and keep up the creative mind!


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August 02, 2007

 
- Janine Russell

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  Graham, big congratulations on your Second Place Winner!


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August 07, 2007

 

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


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August 12, 2007

 

Graham J. Weiss
  Thanks heaps guys!


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August 12, 2007

 

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


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August 26, 2007

 
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