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Brian C. Baird - 31 Aug 2004 03:08 GMT

As soon as Al puts it up, you can start flaming me. Flaming - heat, get
it?

Isn't quite what I was aiming for originally, but I think it turned out
OK and I was able to pull it off indoors.

I was trying to capture the whole shebang, but as I looked over the
photos I realized the real interest lay in the fine details. I'll have
to go back and shoot some more photos with a tighter crop on different
areas to see what I can come up with.

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Rich Pos - 31 Aug 2004 03:13 GMT

>I was trying to capture the whole shebang, but as I looked over the
>photos I realized the real interest lay in the fine details

Take care of the little stuff and the big stuff will take care of
itself. Or something like that.

RP©

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jimkramer - 31 Aug 2004 03:21 GMT

> As soon as Al puts it up, you can start flaming me. Flaming - heat, get
> it?
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> to go back and shoot some more photos with a tighter crop on different
> areas to see what I can come up with.

I'm pretty sure Al won't get to it tonight; as at 10:20 EST he is sitting in
Atlanta waiting for the plane he's in to take off.

Jim Kramer

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Brian C. Baird - 31 Aug 2004 13:46 GMT

> I'm pretty sure Al won't get to it tonight; as at 10:20 EST he is sitting in
> Atlanta waiting for the plane he's in to take off.
>
> Jim Kramer

What!? He's not waiting at his computer checking his e-mail every 30
seconds? How dare he?

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Al Denelsbeck - 31 Aug 2004 17:13 GMT

> > I'm pretty sure Al won't get to it tonight; as at 10:20 EST he is sitting in
> > Atlanta waiting for the plane he's in to take off.
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> What!? He's not waiting at his computer checking his e-mail every 30
> seconds? How dare he?

Most times, most times. But this time I was rudely interrupted and
dragged out of town.

And I enjoy saying this knowing that it'll be at least Friday night
before the responsible party can read this ;-)

But your image is up now, and probably tomorrow I may have my own
commentary posted.

Cheers!

- Al.

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Alan Browne - 31 Aug 2004 20:23 GMT

> As soon as Al puts it up, you can start flaming me. Flaming - heat, get
> it?

Neat shot, I'm guessing a mirror in front of a fireplace, but
hard to tell. Looks like the icecube is sliding down... neat
placement of the fire image wrt the ice cube.

A little fill flash would have been a nice touch to make the cube
whiter (could say the same about my candle shot) but in your case
would have resulted in highlights in the water streams/drops
which would not be so good for this effect. (There is that blue
light lower right...)

A little too saturated on the lower left ... coulda fixed that up
in PS. --------->>>>>>>>>> ;-) <<<<<<<<<<<-----------

Cheers,
Alan.

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Brian C. Baird - 31 Aug 2004 22:45 GMT

> Neat shot, I'm guessing a mirror in front of a fireplace, but
> hard to tell. Looks like the icecube is sliding down... neat
> placement of the fire image wrt the ice cube.

Close. Mirror in the basement doused with isopropyl alcohol. A dam of
plumber's putty kept the errors of my earlier experiment in the kitchen
(don't ask) under control.

I had a few shots of the ice cube enveloped in flame, but it was too
hard to tell what was going on.

It was also hard keeping the ice cube to stay put. Stupid melting!

> A little fill flash would have been a nice touch to make the cube
> whiter (could say the same about my candle shot) but in your case
> would have resulted in highlights in the water streams/drops
> which would not be so good for this effect. (There is that blue
> light lower right...)

Well, if I adjusted the white point to account for the camera's reading,
the ice cube was white... but so were the flames. I decided to strike a
point someplace in between, where there was some yellow, but not too
much orange.

The blue comes from the casement window - I think.

As for the saturation - I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole! ;)

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