One morning ...

[enaiman]

... I've noticed the pattern made by a quite "generous" morning dew. I took the first shot and the color really impressed me. Try to guess where these droplets were ...



... on my car's tail light
This morning the same happened and I tried to get better results (by using an f/22 to get a bigger DoF); well it turned out better but still not as much in focus as I wanted.
I couldn't use a tripod because I don't have a 2m one so focus stacking was out of question.

Guess I'll try again in the future.

C&C welcome

[kdoc856]

Eugene,

Love the capture. That color truly pops- I believe that would be a good example of "cerise" (somehow I seem to be learning more about color since I decided to make a project of learning B&W currently) I think your background, focus and DoF are ideal. You might want to clone out the 2 circular reflections on the lower curviilnear area. Very minor distractions on a very fne image.

Kevin

[enaiman]

Thank you very much Kevin for your kind comments and suggestions
I`ll start working right away.

[tameigh]

Great color, nice image.

[RockNGoalStar]

Very cool!

You could always try putting your tripod on a table or something to get the height if you wanted to take multiple shots and focus stack them. But I quite like the DoF you have got in this one.

[GrahamH]

Nicely seen and a nice shot. Also indicates your car was pretty clean. A dirtier surface would produce less well defined droplets.
Graham

[enaiman]

Thank you all for your comments

I did try to clone out the reflections and it didn't work; I'm afraid it's beyond my PP ablity. The colour changes along and makes cloning a painful job. I guess I'll leave it as it is and I hope to get better shots in the future.

[MiniChris]

Start with a lower opacity (27%) and lower fill rate (45%) and build it up slowly. 100% across the board is too harsh for this type of edit. I did several runs across the image using these settings and had decent to very good results, depending on how much intensity I felt they needed to lose.

[enaiman]

Thanks Chris, I'll try again