A Butterfly, A water Drop and a High Speed Camera!

Thank You!

 

For more info:

http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/isadeghi/RC2007/

I love everything about this photo.

Wow!!! Amazing job! I love everything as well! 6/6!

Is this a true butterfly?The photo is amazing.DF

Really nice. Very sensual.

HOLY COW! this is amazing,incredible, magnificent, beautiful, and very creative! You have inspirered me! :)

One more thing, I'm curious...what was the shutter speed/aperture on this stunning photo?

This is a wonderful image. What I like most about it is the clarity of the water...and how the light travels through it. The reflections on the bamboo are perfect.

I visited your web page but have been left a little confused. Is this work entirely computer generated or are there any true photographic elements (IE: Those that actually utilized a camera)? What I gathered was that the elements that comprise this picture seem to have been created and composed in Maya. From what your web page depicts, it seems like the butterfly was a photo which was cut, imported and then digitally altered and added to the other pieces created entirely in Maya. Regardless, the rendering is very nice indeed.... but, even though it is possible to obtain with a camera, you might drive some folks on this forum nuts as they try to reproduce this effect with an SLR and Photoshop! ;-)

I agree with James. Also, clicking the "unmanipulated box", is I'm sure, throwing a lot of people off. It just takes a single clone or dodge spot or anything selectively done to just part of a single photograph to keep you from truthfully clicking that box. It looks like you were way beyond that. Personally, I have taken thousands of water drop pictures and knew immediately it wasn't real, but you did do a very good job generating this picture, and it would probably fool most people. Btw, glad to see my "American Water Drops" made it to your inspiration page. I would have appreciated the credit due, but after discovering just a month or two ago that that image was stolen, submitted to Betterphoto.com, and won a contest from one of the members there, I really don't mind too much that I didn't have my name under the photo on your web page.

This image is entirely generated with my raytracer. I used Maya only for modeling and all the visual effects has been done in my renderer ... I did used texturemaps though.

 

So there is no camera involved, only my laptop!

 

Still I appreciate comments and critiques about this image. From Technical and Artistic point of view ...

 

Thank you all anyways.

-Iman

 

 

ps. I uppdated my webpage and added a link to your webpage Scott.

 

 

 

Thank you for the explanation and the credit under the photo. I appreciate it.

pretty good work with manipulating this image or images. at first i thought that it might have been a real photograph, but the butterfly is too bright and there is not enough detail in the wings for it to be a real butterfly and as i was looking at the water which looks like may be authentic with some manipulation i started looking at the piece of bamboo and something just didnt look right so i kept looking it over and it just seemed to be off in color. what editing program did you use and what is actually a photograph?

Hi Jose,

 

It is not a real photograph nor a manipulated one! It is a computer generated rendering. (from a 3D scene)

You can see here for more info about my project.

http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/isadeghi/RC2007/

 

Here most of the textures are photograph and they are mapped to some 3D geometries and the final image is generated by using ray tracing method.