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I was doing some experimenting with reflective sunlight the other day and these two are a small sample of the fruits of my labour.

Comments and critiques are most welcomed.

Hi Hutchy,

Vey nice, I really like the pastel colours.

How was this effect achieved?

Hutchy
And you have everybody wondering "how did he do that?"

Thanks for the comments.

They were done with some shiny stones from the bottom of my fishtank. LOL! I put them in a bowl and set up my camera (with my Kenko extension tubes) in the back yard as the sun was setting and shot them out of focus. It was quite frustrating as I had to keep moving my setup (milkcrates) as the sun was moving behind the block of units next door.

Not allot of post-processing really. A bit of contrast, a saturation of +20 and some sharpening. I ended up taking about 50 shots with various size spots but these two worked best for me.