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Published: 2011-11-06 20:14:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 29368; Favourites: 2595; Downloads: 0
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Update: OMG another DD!!! Thank you so much *AssassinM for recommending it and to ^hellfirediva for featuring it! So freaking AWESOME!!!
And THANK YOU in advance for all the
's and comments! I promise to answer all comments as soon as possible... However I may not be able to thank everyone for the thousands of I'm now receiving... hope you understand 
Update #2: For those of you who are interested in knowing how I did this... please read the tutorial that I created (just click on the thumbnail image):
Update #3: Background images have been created for all to download... Enjoy!
New series "Bubble Drops"
This particular image is my favorite from the series... but I have more to upload soon... many, many more
This is NOT Photoshopped, the color is from different cloth in the background, and colored water.
Nikon D90
105mm Macro F2.8
Comments and Critiques welcome
For prints go to Creative Dragon Photography
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...wut? I think I was in a trance XD
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That's an absolutely beautiful shot. I love water photography!
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Thank you very much. I love water photography too... it's probably the one thing I've attempted photographing the most... and I say attempted cause I'm still working on perfecting my techniques
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You're welcome. The reason I like photographs like this so much is that it's something that you know is real, but never get to see usually.
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This is just absolutely lovely. Great work.
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Thank you very much
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you're welcome!
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very trippy. i'd sculpted a simple splash in stone and got a dd for it, but this one i don't think can be sculpted, not in stone anyway. excellent shot!
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cool... that's be hard to sculpt a drop in stone... I don't even know how one would begin to sculpt this beast in stone... lol but you're more then welcome to try
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its impossible to do in stone - that was my point
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not if you had a laser scalpel or a phaser from the Enterprise
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laser "scalpel" is incapable of cutting inside crevices that are not visible. as the piece rotates inside the machine, the laser has to have "direct line of sight", because laser is a type of light and cannot bend. so, if something obstructs the line of sight as the piece rotates, you would have to finish it manually once the laser part is done. to produce a droplet inside a bubble, you would have to carve them separately (even with the best lasers out there) and then combine them into one piece. i dare you find anyone who will be able to do this out of one contiguous piece of stone. perhaps sometime in the future when the robotic arm holding the laser will be able to get inside, it will then be possible, otherwise nope. also, if you know how the actual computer modeling is done before any lasers can be applied, you will again run into the problem of direct line of sight. lasers aren't omnipotent, my friend.
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lol, I didn't intend for you to take my comment seriously, but apparently you did... I was only joking around, which is why I threw the Star Trek reference in there
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Lol, sorry- not a star trek fan, i thought you were referring to an actual company producing laser equip. never mind then, no harm no faul. beautiful shot still.
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hehehe it's all good
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If this hadn't already had a DD, I would have suggested it! This is sweet!!
amazing idea and capture.
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Thank you very much! I appreciate the sentiment
I'm glad you like it so much
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This is amazing!
How did you manage to do it and get that effect? Just curious. ^3^
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Tutorial coming soon... meant to do it last weekend, just haven't had time...
anyhow, the bubble is blown onto the water then the drops are dropped through the bubble.. you can see in this image a small warp in the bubble where the drop penetrated it...
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Ohhhh, OK, thank-you for replying! ^3^ <3
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It's like a little self contained universe.
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Now that I would love to capture... unfortunately I don't have any of those Men In Black marble size universes or galaxies... whatever
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It's still very pretty~
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absolutely incredible!! reminds me of a cloche lol
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NO THAT, Is just AWESOME! Like wow! Great idea and a one in a lifetime shot!
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it...
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You're welcome! It is really great!
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I'm sitting there, viewing this Piece of Awesomeness, and I'm thinking: Wow! Just wow! O_O
How can that be reality? And why isn't everything that I see that beautiful?
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LOL! Thank you for the warm sentiment... I'm glad you like it so much
And trust me there's plenty of beautiful images like this on DA and the rest of the web... if you don't believe me you should check out my inspiration. She's a photographer by the name of Corrie White... google her and you'll see why I do water drops like this
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my inner voice says meteroid and sex i love it!!
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HA HA HA!!! Meteroid-sex... now that's funny
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Wow, this is MINDBOGGLING! What did you do? XD is this water? Or wine? or what?
And SERIOUSLY? It's a PHOTO? AMAZING! I LOVE IT!
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hahaha! Thank you!!
Yes, it's water. Plain water in the catch dish, and water with xanthem gum powerder in the dropper...
Yes, seriously 
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Oh my gosh! It's Awesome! You're welcome!
Genius!
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Very nice work, these are a pig to capture cleanly
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Indeed! I deleted probably about 50-100 images, and only uploaded from the best ones from what was left...
Thanks!
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