This past weekend, I played with these little gel-like clear balls that we’ve had for a few weeks now sitting and waiting to be photographed. That gel has exactly the same refraction that water has, meaning they become completely invisible in the water.

I was simply dropping them into a very shallow water for this image.
Below are non-manipulated images, directly from camera RAW. Only WB and some color tint were changed in ARC.

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