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by willem

Comment by 'Pong:
Congratuations! I am glad that an abstract gets a blue ribbon. I didn't vote on this challenge. But this photo jumped at me in the thumbnails and was the only one I clicked to view it. To be hoenst, I don't think this would win because the audience here is not into abstract. But it proves me wrong, quite a breakthrough for me to judge the voters. Thank you for sharing the detailed description of your photo too. keep on good work.

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Comment by willem:
Wow, thanks all for voting my picture to first place. Really feel great about it. Thanks. When I entered I was wondering whether it would fit the theme, but with some open interpretation I thought it did. (Are the lower scores received an indication of some different opinions about this ? I would love to know the reasons.)

A lot of you wondered what it is or how I did it, well here it is :

It is the view through the front window of the new Copenhagen metro/subway/underground. The metro has been opened only October last year and is very modern and smooth and also unmanned, no driver, so has large accessible windows in the front and back.

I put my camera on a tripod, but used it as monopod, so the legs not folded out. Then I held the camera against the glass, supported by the monopod at an angle, and used the rubber lenshood folded against the glass to shield out any reflections from the interior.

I tried different apertures and exposure times at different speeds of the train and this one turned out the best. It is a 1 second exposure at F2.1 which gives this nice yellow color. Most of the other pictures turned out much more brown because of less exposure, and also less abstract, with the individual lights still visible.

Because of the high speed of the train in the bend and the smoothness of the ride, the picture turned out smooth as well, there was hardly any side movement at this part of the track.

The picture was slightly cropped, to make the round tunnel a bit better visible, small S curve applied, slightly sharpened and then saved for web. No other manipulation.

Thanks again,

Willem Dijkstra

Message edited by author 2003-07-24 06:24:36.

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Comment by wewillexplore:
What IS this?

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Comment by sher:
congrats willem! great photo!

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Comment by mzanoni:
WOW what an interesting image. I really like it. It is amazing how you kep the lines so clean and without bumps or giggles. Great job.

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Comment by Nazgul:
a man cant even see what this is?....
sorry but you get a 3 from me mister

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Comment by GeneralE:
Looks like a pretty effective motion blur. I don't think my camera can quite do this.

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Comment by 1acrefarm:
Very interesting, I like it

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Comment by zerocusa:
Great sense of motion, let me guess in a moving subway?

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Comment by marbo:
Great effect.