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Looks Like I'll Be Late Again
Looks Like I'll Be Late Again
JamesDowning


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Challenge: Free Study 2012-03 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sony SLT-A33
Lens: Sony SAL-1855 DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Baltimore Beltway
Date: Mar 23, 2012
Aperture: f/11.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/800
Date Uploaded: Mar 20, 2012

 Foggy morning on the way to work, snapped a quick shot out of the windscreen when approaching some stopped traffic. Basically a no-look shot, but once it was processed I really liked it. I liked the little details. Street signs, street lamps, an exit ramp with a bus, the close suv on the right, the orange traffic cones, the yellow pickup echoing the yellow line, those red brake lights in the distance... the way it all fades into that fog.

Mundane life, represented at the moment of - "dang it, I'm going to be late."

I hope people like it as much as I do.

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Place: 261 out of 279
Avg (all users): 4.9016
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
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Votes: 122
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AuthorThread
 04/13/2012 08:59:18 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I'm surprised this image hasn't been given a posty - it looks just like the kind of thing Don would go for! Ah well...personally I would have cropped a bit on the left to put the sun at a third. If a longer exposure had been possible, that would have blurred the vehicles on the left, adding a little blur and a sense of motion.

I like it because it does catch the mundanity of the morning commute. There is a universality to this shot which usually appeals. All I can think is that the blown sun/fog were seen as too glarey and thus put people off. And let's face it, DPC loves saturated colours or multitonal b/ws, relatively muted colours have a much tougher go of it. Even more so in a Free Study entry.

Overall a good effort, please keep on shooting and entering!

Feel free to PM me,

Susan
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 04/08/2012 01:14:23 AM
I really do like this, because of the reasons you indicated. Mundane, every day life, but with fun little details. And a really nice job with the processing, too.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/07/2012 08:34:33 PM
I love the light and the cyan cast and the hole of sun
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 04/03/2012 01:04:50 PM
the sun takes over the hole photo . i cant stop staring at it .
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 04/03/2012 09:48:28 AM
Love the title to this! I believe MANY of us can relate!!!
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 04/02/2012 12:03:54 PM
The sky is awsome.
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 04/01/2012 02:47:27 PM
But at least you'll have another 9.
Very nice colors, harsh like another morning on the roads.
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 04/01/2012 12:43:13 AM
Hehe, great title, love the PP.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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