love this one particularly. it does look like there is genie coming out or waking up... lovely work!

Hi Laurie, I've mentioned in the blog about your 'stuff' and nothing has changed. You know that I like it.

Jan.

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Super image Laurie. Terrific lighting.

super image Laurie

I am so glad to see this amazing photo in your Gallery Laurie, It is fabulious and will soon make its way to the scroller where it deserves to be.

Very well composed and thanks for giving us a second chance to see it and how you did it on your blog. Pam.x

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One word! Brilliant!

Regards

Tim

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Stunning piece of photography there! If I may ask, what lighting setup did you use?

A very artistic and professional shot laurie.  Paul.

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Wow thanks all for the feedback and kind words.

I did a blog with more that you can see here:

http://www.myfinepix.com/blog/259473/495006

I also did an article describing the set up and process.  It shows 2 methods one using strobes and the other using very inexpensive high intensity task lamps from Ikea.  This particular image was done using strobes but it very possible to do this using every day lighting.  You can read the article here:

http://www.myfinepix.com/article/259473/495489

Superb shot, brilliant lighting fantastic smoke detail and a very eye catching shot.

Wendy 

It is not an easy subject.. as an amateur (I'm an amateur now), I can say good shot. As a former photographer in advertising, well I could modulate that. (i.e. highlights on the teapot are too strong for me). But it's too difficult in english and I prefer not to try. And to be honest I have forgotten almost everything cos' it's a long time now. And the most important, I have lost my eye. Not physically, I mean the capacity to see and judge, the most important thing for a professional, that you get after years. So, when I see the tools you use, I can say : good shot and well done !... I speak like that because it's the kind of articles I used to photography when I was a professional, many years ago, I hope you understand...

The camera I used to take my picture was a small Sony compact, with aperture 2.8 on this photo, you can imagine... numeric world is another world...

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Stunning, superb lighting, love it, Rob

Quite like the overall effect, a very nice image

Edy...no offence but I would really prefer that you didn't do that without asking me first.

That image was taken in my living room...the flute was sitting on the bookshelf...no special lighting just the existing ambient daylight in the room and a quick snap. 

As far as your edit...the black and white tone is a bit too muddy for my taste.  I prefer more contrast in black and white.  I know my shot was low contrast but I also didn't intend for it to be black and white. 

It was submitted for a weekly challenge for selective focus and as such no post processing editing was allowed other than cropping and straightening so all I did was apply a very slight crop mainly because my viewfinder is not 100% so sometimes the framing is not exactly what I want. 

Don't worry Laurie, I won't do that anymore. I just thought it could be interesting in B&W... so, apologize....

I liked it in the IHC Laurie, and still do. It's very striking.

Great image Laurie, really like this

This would make a great kitchen or cafe poster.......as would the three mugs

Red Lassie...you tell me you put a comment here but I do not see it...I did not report it or "edit" it...wouldn't know how to do that as you said in the comment on my pie entry but feel free to replace it verbatim...I really do not care what people say to me or about me...I have a very thick skin. 

Oh wow!! Laurie this is superb!!

Viv

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