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Published: 2004-06-25 14:10:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 25835; Favourites: 600; Downloads: 6070
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Events in my life some time ago made me feel this way. I have mentioned the list I keep of images to shoot. I write the topic down and put comments next to them about what I was feeling at the time. This was the third on my list of about a hundred or so.Next to 'broken' I wrote: She left. He's gone. It's no longer exists for me. I am lost. It all means stuff to me. The word RAIN on the bottle is symbolic of course. The second I saw this type of vodka I knew what I was shooting.
This is a static shot except for the water. Fishing line, glue, tons of setup, other people helping with the water and about 6 hours got this shot. I was an a-hole to the people helping while I shot it. They have come to understand it. I am a lunatic when I shoot something emotional.
After this click the setup collapsed and everything was destroyed. This click was good enough thank goodness. Had to clean up the background a bit and remove a few water spots here and there...
Will dA stay up? Will it go down? Guess I picked a bad day to put this up... LOL
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Comments: 189
What a slogan!
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oh , I love the blue colour , it's makes the pic more fantastic
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fantastic capture! such a snapshot in time! well done
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i featured this deviation in my last journal named "White!". Check it out
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i featured this deviation in my last journal named "White!". Check it out
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i featured this deviation in my last journal named "White!". Check it out
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simply incredible, in both technique and concept
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This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on which is a community project
promoting artists on dA.
It has been found from the word of the week : "GLASS "
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This is great. I really love it quite a bit. I love all your work. Nice job.
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that's beautiful, I love the lil touch of blue at the top, it's just perfect
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I can definately relate to that feeling of being broken. I actually wrote a poem at one point in time, relating myself to a glass bottle....not that it matters. But this is a brilliant piece!
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Stunning work! I've always wanted to take a picture of a glass breaking.
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I love this shot! I am so impressed that you were willing to put so much time into setting this up! A truly compulsive artist is beautiful! I have been strolling through your gallery and I find myself wanting to favor everything! Your Journal expressed my sentiments exactly! Too much shallow stuff on DA and not enough art that actually has time, thought and artistic talent into it. Alot of the photos have no soul!
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. "
Anton Chekhov
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why hasn't this got a DD?! REEEEEEALLY amazing!!! 
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... well, hate to repeat my self, and everyone else but ... you are a genius ... it it not just the realization that shocks me but the thought behind it too... ?!?!?!?!?!?!
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computer cut off my comment, hate that. anyway, i thought that the bottle as it is kind of looks like it just spontaneously combusted. like the break, or hurt, came from inside and it couldn't contain it all. like how we can just keep emotions bottled up (pardon the pun) inside until they make us explode.
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"tons of setup" yeah. i can tell. it's amazing. i thinki i use that word too much in commenting on your work. at first i really didn't care for the angle of the bottle and how it was positioned. then i thought th
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This will sound like a really amatuer question...but that's what I am, so im asking anyways....how do you get your background so white and completely seamless..you do it consistently in so many of your shots and I just need to know how you do it. Thanx so much!!!!!!!
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I study photography in college, the way i belive you get a good back ground is have it possisioned away from the subject, then shine the light on the back ground, one light setup for the b/g and one for the subject.
Light /*\ Light /*\
Camera =< Subject O Background |
Obviously theres probally more ways but thats how i percive it.
Very nice shot btw.
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Coolness, looks like you caught the photo at the time the glass bottle began to shatter!
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Amazing! Good timing that you can shoot picture like that, right?
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that is an awesome photo! thank you for explaining how you did it, usually people don't and I sit there wondering how hard or easy it was. you did a lot of hard work, but it turns out great!
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Wow, you really are amazing. This shot is one of my favorites of yours.
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Would you explain me how you took this pic?
Did you manipulate it by any software?
Can you tell me Shutter Speed, F Number, Focal Length and ISO Speed?
you have done a great job!!!
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The explanation of the setup is in the description. I forget what the exposure was. I think F16 at a 500th. Iso 200 (good, clean setting on my 1D). Everything was hung with fishing line and the water was poored from a watering bucket. Thanks so much...
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You are crazy...and genius...
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that is amazing.... Its unbelievable how you get these amazing shots... i love the shards of glass inbetween the two halfs of the bottle... It takes it to a deeper level. And assuming that the bottle was once filled with vodka is symbolic too, it is truely emotional and well shot.
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i'm amazed by your attention to detail. this is a beautiful piece. thanks for describing how you did it!
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Your work never ceases to amaze me. It's always quite clear how much effort you put into capturing what it is you want...but 6 hours?! I have to hand it to you! I never knew how long some of your work took! And I never would have guessed.
I had no idea this was studio done either. But perhaps I'm silly like that. Anyway, amazing photo. Definate fav. It's not only perfect artisically (bah, can't think of the word. You know, it's got contrast, it's intersting to look at, nice negative sspace blah blah blah) but also the idea that you had behind it shows. It's definately not just a broken bottle
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I'm always insanely baffled on how you get some shots of these different scenarios. Either you have very, VERY fast reflexes... or... hm, I guess that's all I got. Great reflexes!
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God this so rocks ! It's my favorite ! I hope you will have a print up for sale @ DPC. The details really moved me on this one. Amazing my friend !
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Amazing shot! I am really impressed with how much time & effort was put into this. Great job!!!!
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um... whoa.
i'm totally with you on the emotion for this shot.
very, very impressive.
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wow. i'm just trying to play this fraction of a second in my mind without feeling belittled. just...wow. you're one of the few artists that actually make me sit here and gawk. heh. *gawking*
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