Playing with Marbles Set VII - a photo on Flickriver

This seven-image set is based on the same setup that I used for Macro Mondays a couple of weeks ago (see flic.kr/p/2ptWG9u) although with a different capture and, mercifully, the right way up.

The marbles were in a wineglass and black foamboard was used as backdrop. The setup was lit from overhead using an LED penlight in a darkened room. It was a long exposure using a tripod and remote trigger - this enabled me to move the torch a little to build the light in the exposure..

I lost my marbles decades ago but, quite astonishingly, some of them turned up in the wine cupboard a while back. Strange…

The marbles, like me, are from the last century and it shows in their battered surfaces. But they’re made for playing with, aren’t they?

The edits are:
1 - Topaz Studio 2. This monochrome rendition uses Smudge and Glow effects to emphasise the lines and shapes and reduce the surface texture.
2 - Topaz Studio 2. This uses a Remix effect that is often interesting and can look very like stained glass.
3 - Topaz Studio 2. This is probably my favourite of the realistic incarnations. I particularly like the way the glass stem has turned out. It uses Smudge, Glow and Bloom filters. Confusingly Bloom is more of a glow and Glow (along with Radiance) is a linear extension filter. Sigh… [I’ll post this on Sliders Sunday]
4 - Topaz Studio 2. This is a straight colour swap with a bit of surface smoothing. Playing with colours is endless (if confusing) fun…
5 - Nik Analog Efex. This is a double exposure effect based around two copies of the image manipulated by the filter (rotated, resized and given a circular blur effect). It reminds me of nascent star clusters in the distant universe. This one was one of the most curiously interesting to my marbleless mind…
6 - Nik Color Efex. A fairly well-trodden path for me with this one: one of the many possible solarisation variations along with a bicolour filter and a vignette.
7 - Nik HDR Efex. I don’t often have much successful fun with this filter but this one worked out OK giving a very realistic effect. I particularly like the blue glass which was a side effect of changing the colour temperature. HDR normally zaps texture but I tried to limit that in the filter options.

I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started before the basic development and processing and the tidying-up work on all that dust.

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)

Taken on: January 21, 2024

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Camera: Nikon Z 6, f/29.0, 0.3 sec, 105mm, ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon Z 6
Lens:	Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Aperture:	f/29.0
Exposure Time:	0.3
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	640
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Capture One 23 Windows
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