Amusingly (?)
the bit that looks most 'shopped is the bottle being on the shelf, which I assume is there in the source?
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Wed 11 May 2011, 10:03,
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The shelf is. I guassian blurred behind the bar counter.
I think it was 8 layers in the end.
I was lucky with the bottle source. 2k pix wide white background that enabled me to deconstruct the bottle and reconstruct it as a stransparant glass.
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riverghost servicing your mum since,
Wed 11 May 2011, 10:07,
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It's the lack of shadow (of at least different from the bowl)
opposing light sources etc.
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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this,
Wed 11 May 2011, 10:58,
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