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Flying Fruits

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Description

Two falling water drops showing a still life of apple, pear and tangerine.
Image size
600x800px 520.4 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D80
Shutter Speed
10/600 second
Aperture
F/16.0
Focal Length
105 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jan 9, 2010, 12:42:17 PM
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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

This one is just perfect!
A kick-ass stunning shot.

While the idea of (ab)using a normally unwanted effect in macro photography - namely that refraction can bring the background into focus - is very original by itself, it has been seen before. But combined with this beautiful still life I just have to give full rating for originality.

It must have been very hard to get this shot, but it still turned out technically perfect: the droplets are sharply visible and perfectly frozen in the air, and the overall composition ist just perfect. Your techniques are very strong.

The only thing which irritates me a little bit is that you cannot see from the picture itself what it actually is, you have to read the description for that. But I think that might be intended and nonetheless the viewer is presented with a stunning view. I really like the repetative color triagle here, it is even once again repeated in the blurry background, I like that very much.

Overall a perfect, beautiful, hard-to-get shot with a great impact to the viewer.