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Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
Turn off your mind relax and float down stream
Giles


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Challenge: Beatles Song/Lyrics II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
Date: Oct 7, 2012
Date Uploaded: Oct 7, 2012

 TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

10 stop nd

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 83
Avg (all users): 5.7753
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5455
Avg (non-participants): 5.9107
Views since voting: 581
Views during voting: 187
Votes: 89
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 10/22/2012 04:53:08 AM
Originally posted by hesitant:
The main feature of the picture is the water but the long exposure has rendered it soft and featureless. Check out wizardry 's moving water shots and you'll see much shorter exposures but also plenty of movement and drama. (I know his are mostly waves but moving water is moving water.)


it was shot with a 10 stop nd filter deliberately for the silkyness of the water
 10/15/2012 03:17:51 PM
Re the stream maybe it's a missed language but float down stream doesn't mean a stream, stream is the flow the amazon flows down stream as does the Nile etc if the quote was float down the stream then I'd get it but it's float down stream as in go with the flow???
 10/15/2012 02:10:38 PM
Two things jump out at me.

1) It's not a stream so it's already starting to seem like a shoehorn.

2) Composition. It's very strange. On one hand you have the tree line sloping downward, but the water itself appears to be flowing upward from right to left, settling in the center. I'm not sure what the thinking was here, but I don't get a sense of the down stream effect at all. As a result I'm left with the notion that perhaps you failed at trying to get the shot you really wanted and had to settle for this instead. Now technically this probably shouldn't matter, but I do think voters in general let these sorts of feelings affect their vote. I can say without hesitation that it does for me. If I get the sense that the photographer had to settle for something less than ideal then it affects my vote. I didn't vote in this challenge but I'm guessing had I did I probably would have given it a 6 (mostly due to the exposure/processing).
 10/15/2012 10:54:30 AM
I gave it a 6.

I thought it was a nice shot. But as hesitant mentioned, it seemed a little too soft. And the combination of the water moving and the clouds moving made my eyes not know what area to focus on.

10/15/2012 09:30:04 AM
The main feature of the picture is the water but the long exposure has rendered it soft and featureless. Check out wizardry 's moving water shots and you'll see much shorter exposures but also plenty of movement and drama. (I know his are mostly waves but moving water is moving water.)
 10/15/2012 09:04:46 AM
Not a single comment. And I thought I had it bad. ;D

I actually didn't vote in this challenge (naughty me), so I can't say what I gave it, but I would have given it at least a 7 if I had. Pretty flow, though I probably wouldn't have noticed the plank without your notes. I like the sense of motion throughout.


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