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Published: 2009-08-08 21:08:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 30263; Favourites: 596; Downloads: 2018
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The second work I've done for the Experience The Planets project: A solar transit of Mercury across a backdrop of the roiling sun.Related content
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May I please use this as a backround for a picture I want to draw? I will credit.
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As long as you credit me and provide a link to my website (www.artofgregmartin.com) then that should be fine.
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I swear, I keep looking at it and I think this sun is slightly shifting the more I look at it.
Very cool, by the way. Sights like this just blow my mind.
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This is incredible! Amazing detail is amazing. A+
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love it and i love experience the planets 
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Great detail on the surface, reminds me of the movie Sunshine
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No Words. Wish you would do tutorials. Great work all round.
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Saw the site a while ago, my friend linked me, the opening was AWESOME
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I love this piece, it's amazing. It reminds me of a scene from the movie Sunshine, have you seen it?
Beautiful work, thanks for sharing.
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I have indeed and have to admit that scene plays no small role in inspiring this piece.
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and the homepage is awesome!
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Oh God It seems so Real, At first look I thought it was a photo
Just Amazing! Great Job! Great Details!
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The details in the sun itself are flawless. But (unless it was for artistic reasons) wouldn't the sun get dimmer along the edge instead of brighter since we are looking at more of it head on towards the center - a bit like this [link] which even you gotta agree it's a damn good Sun
Using smoke for the flares was a goo idea, though one can doo similar with fractals - that's what I thought they were
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If anything it'd be more or less uniform, although brightening could occur along the edge due to flares or other prominent events. This has to be a somewhat artistic interpretation at any rate just from an exposure point of view.
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How do you do that!!! looks amazing! I want to do something like this =[
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I believe there may be a rip of this picture here: [link]
>.<
Nonetheless, I believe this is an outstanding piece you have constructed. I love the sense of perspective.
Keep up the excellent work!~
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Hard to believe that this isn't a photo, it's just so much more realistic than any piece of digital space art I've seen. Stellar work!
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Absolutely stunning; it really pops out of the screen and grabs you 
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I was away for quite a long time... now I returned and... what I see? YOU are back, too
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fantastic! I love the ETP site as well, planet space art has always been my fav and these are just the best of them all!
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Very Beautifull , i love the details...and shiny color
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as always Greg very sweet.. i can't believe no one has said this reminds them of your old piece inevitable because thats exactly what i thought of when I first saw it 
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Thanks! And it's mercury, actually, not venus.
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oh shoot i meant that but i had just woken up =<
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This is absolutely beautiful and, has been said, reminds me greatly of Sunshine. Great work. 
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I love the corona, the colour and the lovely representations of the flares on the side. I just want to know, how were they done? Was it ink in water or something else. Im curious
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Ha, a very close guess. They're incense.
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actually come to think of it, some of the flares within the main body of the sun might be skim milk in water as well. I forget. But the side flares are assuredly incense photography. I spent a few night compiling quite a collection for exactly this sort of effect. The next image from ETP I post also made use of incense (for aurorae).
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I see. Well done. It works so well.
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