wax splash

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Hi,
took these shots during one bored hot night back home in Indonesia.
my home city, Medan have recently experience frequent blackouts due to insufficient supply of electricity.
It goes as long as 4 hours per blackout and up to 3 times a day.
so, i began thinking of what to shoot during these times of no power supply.
one night, i began melting candles and started shooting this !
my only main power of light is from my 580EX, the candle itself and a torchlight that i shone on the wax for focus prior to dropping the melted wax.

I thought they turned out cool and would like to know what do you guys think about it.

comments and critique is greatly appreciated.

Thanks



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[Lomo]

Very very nice....any PP done?
Care to share how you did it?

 

[boombox]

Very nice, the dripping wax looks really good... Different from the usual symmetry I see from other pictures.

 

[sprintist]

Very very nice....any PP done?
Care to share how you did it?

yeah very nice and I want to know too, wax dripping on wax or wax dripping on water?
The blue cast is very soothing ^.^

 

[..b..]

Very very nice....any PP done?
Care to share how you did it?

thanks
PP done to adjust contrast and saturation.
i just held a candle with the fire burning directly onto the candle itself,
then slant it so that it'll drop where i want to.
drop those on paper,
accumulate a bit of it and let it dry...then i let it drops again and began shooting them.

 

[..b..]

Very nice, the dripping wax looks really good... Different from the usual symmetry I see from other pictures.

thanks

 

[..b..]

yeah very nice and I want to know too, wax dripping on wax or wax dripping on water?
The blue cast is very soothing ^.^

wax dripping on wax,
the blue cast was the effect of me changing the WB to fluorescent light

 

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thought i'd just post 4 more

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[nikkie]

i like #5 & 8! marvellous!

 

[Dion]

Wow.. they look so great...

you must have a lot of patience.. and time.. keke..

Care to share the setting for these shots?

 

[..b..]

i like #5 & 8! marvellous!

thanks

 

[..b..]

Wow.. they look so great...

you must have a lot of patience.. and time.. keke..

Care to share the setting for these shots?

thanks
f11 at 1/200 with 100mm canon macro lens
with 4 hours of blackout, i sure had a lot of time.
and when there is nothing else u can do...
u won't even feel the slightest test of ur patience anyway...

 

[Kavana]

brilliant looks great!

 

[sprintist]

Inspirational haha very nice again, thanks for sharing your workflow too

 

[..b..]

thanks guys


hope adding two more won't be too much of splashes for u guys to see..


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