Maybe some of you saw this on my website, but here's a recent "self portrait." I shot it in low light purposefully to give a lot of grain and some distressed quality to it and cropped it very aggressively to add some "mystery"

Your mission, should you choose to accept it .....

The first thing that came to my mind was a mix between matrix and mission impossible. Really nice pic !

I've searched a good way to catch the fantastic color the Monster Dog 10w40. Here is what I got in the end, which is not really how they look in sun light though.

good call Francois...

Great job, Francois. Backlighting is definitely your friend for translucent objects. If you run a quick search for "bright field photography" you'll run into some more examples -- stuff like wine glasses, etc.

That is just beautiful Francois! I do love how you manage to capture more than us mere mortals are capable of .. Beautiful.

It's like a liquid.

Great pic, Francois. Stuff like that almost captures the item better than real life. Always fun to look at a great photo of our beloved O.

I honestly never really liked that particular color in the Dogs. But that photo made it look more beautiful than I ever thought they could be, Francois.


~Yukio

Thank you very much guys.

I tried the same idea with some water (color photoshoped) but I'm not that much happy of how it ended up.

i love it ! it looks like the MD is floating in it's own liquid O matter !!!

beautiful AND my new computerbackground

Amazing Francois! HQ should take note!

Fantastic picture, Francois! That reminds me of an old A-Frame goggle ad where it looks like the frame is melting.

Heh, I didn't think the pic would be that much appreciated.
Thank you guys for your comments.

Fred, if you want a bigger size, here is the original one : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/4191591845_b13b42b9e9_o.jpg

Brilliant Shot Francois... i just couldn't resist using it as my Desktop image as well.

Beautiful work, Francois!

Nice shots Francois. I think that for the one with the water, all you needed was a little bit of fill light from the front left, which would help separate the glasses from the water a bit. It's a little dark and muddy over there, but a great concept.

Nice job dude

that shot is awesome Francois!!!!

Francois, your photography skills never cease to amaze me. You have the knack sir, you definitely have the knack. I thank you for letting me use this 10W40 MD as my new desktop wallpaper. Keep up the good work.

Thank you again guys, and thank you Rick for letting me discover a new word in english. ^_^

You have the KNACK!

my sharona?

Heh, I didn't think the pic would be that much appreciated.

It's the new background on my laptop. Nice!

BRILLIANT!!!