About the Image(s)

I have been preparing to do a Zoom presentation for a camera club in the U.S. about Creative Indoor Photography. As part of it, especially since it is so wet and chilly here right now, I set this up in my kitchen: a glass bowl filled with water, a splash of milk, and acrylic paints in lieu of food coloring (which I didn't have or couldn't find). I used orange in a small jar, turquoise in the bowl. I then took a paper towel, wet it and dripped the orange solution at various speeds into the bowl. The post was mainly about removing speckles and then sharpening. Finally, I denoised it.

I have done this in the past with water only, and colorful backgrounds. I am finding my Olympus focusing problematic lately, so despite intense manual focusing, I still see softness, but that may be the milk effect. Lighting was done with solid sources and some additional flash for some of them. I attached two because I thought the saturation was different between them and wanted input if possible.