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Published: 2006-02-21 01:18:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 47651; Favourites: 1746; Downloads: 1219
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Add a few drops of milk to a large glass container filled with water, take picture, rotate image 180 degrees, pump up the saturation and whala. Surreal!My original photo was very noisy (grainy), but Erik Collinder was kind enough to clean up the original and send it back to me. Thanks Erik!
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oh my gosh, what an amazing shot
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That amazing how you did something so simple and made it into something really awesome. I love it 
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OMG IT LOOKS LIKE A FISH!!!! like a beta or something :] I LOVE IT :]
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Very interesting, I never would have thought of using milk and water for art. The only thing I don't like about this picture is that some parts are very clear while others are blurry. I think that takes away from the picture a bit.
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firstly... I Love it!!
secondly - why not try it with food colouring in the milk to make a version two? or even a set of pics?
just an Idea, i'd be really interested to see how it turned out....
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It's a bit grainy in some places, that's a bit annoying...
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Well, to be honest, I didn't see such photography neither on dA nor anywhere before!
It is interesting~
I love the way it looks like smoke or something 3-dimensional...! It doesn't look like "flat milk".
Just the noisy background is a little disturbing... but I am not sure if it is because of the camera (low quality) or because of the lightning in the room (too dark)... :/
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Yeah, the bit of noise is about the only thing I can find wrong here. And I'm an amateur when it comes to fiddling with ISO, so I don't have an yreal advice I can offer.
That said, I love the idea and the execution. It's so commonplace you'd never thing to stop and look at it.
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It's a bit grainy. But other than that, it's fucking awesome.
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This is really nice, I wish it was less grainy but I doubt that acquiring a sharp image of a moving liquid is easy.
I've been wanting to take a picture like this for a while!
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it's jaw dropin breath takin & dnt 4g amazin 
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its a jaw dropin wow no i can do 1 better it's amazin
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Okay. I really like this and will try it myself, great work. Now for some criticism, it looks quite grainy on closer inspection and a little out of focus. This can be prevented by a lower iso (i think) or you can fix it in photoshop
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this is amazing and the fatcthat you shared your technique makes it even more magical. nice work and im happy to see someone who is interested in further developing his skills and not shy to help others gain a new trick to help hone theirs.
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creative. actually a freaky cool image. looks like some kind of floating sucking ejaculate. in a good way. oh well, you know what i mean. lmao. great snap!!
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too noisy? what does that mean, anyway? sheesh!!
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I think this photo is awesome, and not too noisy as some may think, I think that the trend toward minimalism is soon to dissipate, I mean this tenancy to endlessly reducing form to only the essentials kinda gets boring after four or five decades, but this is only my opinion. I'm glad to see photos that capture my instinctual ideals of beauty and not just my cerebral concepts of the same.
I know..I know, this is all crap, but I try with what little Grey matter I have and that is why I like "pretty pictures" lol
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The photo is way too noisy. Were you looking for this effect? I like your style
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im going to have to try this with different liquids and chemicals
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this is absolutely beautiful! I was very mad right b4 I viewed this and your photo calmed me down...
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oh shit! this is totally awsome! i wish i had a camera...i could make things maybe-half as good as you that way >.<
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Thats so cool i thought that it was a floating jellyfish !!
Its such a creative idea to do that!
Yoou shud try it with fruit juice in different colours and it wud be like a rainbow!!
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Beautiful
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i like how you rotated the photo but it probably could have done just fine without the hue/saturation jacked up
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xlnt idea turning this upside down.
i think that is what makes the photo.
only suggestion is to use a higher res. camera, but you know, the cheapest SLR on the market runs about $600usd (excluding lens)
maybe look for a used model from last year.
10 true megapixels. not like the subcompacts that are 10 interpolated mpx.
the new industry standard as of this year is 12.5 but the 10.1 still shoots great pics.
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I wish I could see all of the milk. That's the only thing. O:
I'm not a phtogropher, so that's all the brutal I can go.
I like it though. :]
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an overall good photo when viewed from the distance however when viewed from my seat (full size) the pixels show and thus makes the photo not look as good as it could've been
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wonderfull work! I still can't see the milk and the container.. But that's a good thing..
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Really great,
if you're looking for criticism, the only thing i can think to suggest is to maybe add color, i don't know how it would work out, but you could add dye to either the milk or the water... you would loose the black-and-white aspect, but it might add anther degree to the surreal making it less recognizable as milk.
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This is really beautiful and caught my eye straight away! You've probably already heard from others, but in my opinion it looks like a sea dragon of some sort. Love the glow effect.
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This is amazing! It looks as though it is alive!
I think it might be interesting to see what you could do with diffrent types of liquid, maybe soda instead of water? The bubbles might give it an interesting effect...Also, what would happen if you took the shot from a diffrent angle? It might make it look more dramatic, and might make it look even cooler! [Although I know it might be hard with the way water interacts with light, so maybe some photoshop rotation?].
Anyway, I LOVE IT! I think I'll have to try this type of thing sometime!
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Uber Nice...
I thought it was a sea horse ghost at first...
phew!
the camera noise etc actually works well with the surreal image thing... i like the way you have not tried to clean it up too much...
Good job...
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there is tons of shit you can create by doing what you just did here. hmm.. this has inspired me a little but these no way in telling if ill ever get around to it or not. this odd milky photo belongs in a museum.
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