Water droplets

[foxor]

I read a post on this site recently about taking pictures of water droplets and decided to give it a shot. I was a little limited in supplies (canon digital elph without manual focus meant using a pair of scissors as something to focus on before shooting, and my general lack of planning and organization meant a colourful plastic bag as a backdrop) but that just makes things more interesting .

I created duplicate layers and used various blending modes (trial and error) to get the effect. Mostly this involved a duplicate layer where I'd changed the colour and contrast, and then setting the blending mode to hard light. Ended up not liking the orange of my backdrop so much, so I changed it (using a hue/saturation adjustment layer) when I tried to crop and enhance the photos.

One of the originals:


The after:

(Larger version can be found here, and larger version of just the single original photo can be found here)

Edit: The tutorial I used can be found here!

[PowerPix]

Nice work. These have to be some of the best focused shots I've seen from a P&S camera!

[foxor]

Thanks!!! I was pleased with the results, but it definitely took a bit of extra work to 'fool' my little camera into doing what I needed it to do

And yours was the tutorial I used, so I added a link. I couldn't find it again after I read it the first time...and there were no comments back then. It was fun to go back and read the comments and see what everyone else came up with!

[pjflan7]

great job on these.....these are fun to do