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Paper Clip in a Wind Tunnel

This is a paperclip floating on water. The lighting is a large softbox behind, shot through a set of blinds. I placed the paperclip on a fork and slowly lowered it into a black pan pan of water. I processed this at a white balance of 3000 kelvin to give it the nice blue color. I think the lines from the blinds look like smoke in a wind tunnel, hence the title. See the setup shot for more details. I originally saw a shot like this a DPChallenge.com.

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Uploaded on November 12, 2007
Taken on November 4, 2007