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Spotless Scientific Glassware posted on 18th of may, 2011

Did you notice that the test tubes and scientific glass in my photographs are always free of dust, water spots or scratches? It’s because I always retouch all my images individually to eliminate any imperfection in the glass. Viewing my work at 300% screen magnification, I use a tiny digital clone brush with a size of between 6 and 9 pixels to eliminate each single defect –one by one.

My studio tabletop is equipped with both a compressed air blower and an anti-static air filter, but no matter how much dust I try to eliminate at shooting time, my glassware photos still require hundreds of single strokes and often take a few hours each to process. I tried various automatic software but the result was often blotchy. I also tried subcontracting on the Indian...

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Comments (8)

	Thank you for sharing.... - posted by Voytekj on May 30, 2011
	I had a look at them in the enlarged view. Indeed they are spotless. - posted by Joezachs on May 18, 2011
	Great images, Good luck. - posted by Egomezta on May 18, 2011

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