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    This photo was captured using a 90mm macro lens and a 36mm extension tube. The scene is a tiny portion of this broken wine bottle. EDIT: To put "tiny" into perspective, the projection onto the APS-C sensor is about 40% larger than the physical scene. A slight crop was made purely to fine-tune the composition.

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    The background is white translucent acrylic. A small continuous-light lamp behind the background shines toward the subject and camera. That set up outlines the edges of glass and other areas in dark tones. The image was then rotated 180 degrees.



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    Re: Abstract

    You appear to be having fun challenging yourself! This is a very nice abstract!

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    Nice one.

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    Lighting is clearly important in every image but this is all about the light. Love it.

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    I love this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John 2 View Post
    Lighting is clearly important in every image but this is all about the light. Love it.
    I agree, great work Mike.


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    Thank you, everyone!

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    Mike, love it.
    Cheers Ole

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    Re: Abstract

    Apart from the obvious perfection of the lighting and composition I'm intrigued by what the 45 degree line is going up towards the left and the rounded edges of the diagonal line going up towards the right from the same point.

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    Thank you also to Ole and Grahame.

    Quote Originally Posted by Stagecoach View Post
    I'm intrigued by what the 45 degree line is going up towards the left and the rounded edges of the diagonal line going up towards the right from the same point.
    The line going upward toward the left is the seam in the bottle. The line going upward toward the right is a continuation of the line going downward to the left and both are the broken edge of the bottle.

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    Re: Abstract

    Nicely spotted and a very well executed abstract that would look superb framed.

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    Thanks, Robin!

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    Well done

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    Very nice light and tones Mike. An image to hang on the wall

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    Thank you to Binnur and Nandakumar!

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