Aquatic phantom

I have a deep photographic attraction for the shapes of water, but I seldom try to capture them in a controlled environment. This time however, I put an inox bowl upside down and made water fall on it in order to shoot the ripples where the light would create this reflection on the bowl.

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Great job Rémi! I love the abstraction, ambiguity and dynamism here. Very imaginative.

For me, this is the finest image I recall you posting on FS. Well done.

Thank you Chris ! I think I'll try to find new ideas to display water in this manner, as it brings a different focus to the element. I imagine I'll need to invest in a macro setup at some point.

@Jennifer : I'm not sure why, but I wanted to reply to you and the button is greyed out. Anyway, first and foremost, thank you !
It looks like a black and white image, but it's not. There's actually little going on in the way of post-processing, it was mainly cloning out a few droplets and ripples of water that were visible outside of the ray of light, as well as the border of the bowl which was discernable on the top-right corner. The rest was mainly a matter of shooting the same subject ~200 times and choosing the shapes that I found the most harmonious.

Hey Remi, this may be due to you getting to the discussion by way of Chris's notification (ie can only reply to that). I have seen the same when following other notifications.

Thanks for posting Remi.

This is certainly dark and mysterious. Not only is there ambiguity within the image itself, but I was left wondering what an 'inox bowl' might be until Professor Google helped me out.

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