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Challenge: Close Your Eyes (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-1100D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
Location: outside my house
Date: Mar 29, 2012
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10
Date Uploaded: Mar 29, 2012

 Well, initially I didn't want to enter this challenge but last minute I decided what the hell lol.. and i'm glad I did cos it was fun lol.

I stood outside my door in the evening and decided that not only would i close my eyes, i would use a long exposure for some of the 100 shots (which you do get through quite quickly really).. even waving camera about like a madman and spinning myself around on the spot for some shots.. lol, not advised with eyes closed as i almost fell a few times lol...

Ended up using this shot which was a 10 second exposure. I kept pointing it til i heard it focus on something (in this case a lit lamppost in our street) and then moved the camera about while the exposure time ticked away.. In editing I cropped the image to what i felt was the most interesting looking part of the photo, adjusted brightness and contrast using curves, denoised using topaz denoise, resized, sharpened using topaz sharpen and added border before saving for challenge.. not sure how it'll be received but it was lots of fun to do lol

Statistics
Place: 80 out of 94
Avg (all users): 5.2051
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.2500
Avg (non-participants): 5.1579
Views since voting: 400
Views during voting: 252
Votes: 117
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2012 04:01:03 PM
Another one of my favorites. At first I thought it was rope lights, but I think maybe it was a long exposure and you just shook the camera around. Neat concept!
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 04/04/2012 11:35:59 PM
good composition
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 04/02/2012 11:56:03 AM
Awesome effect here. Wonder what this is. Can't want to find out. 9
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 03/30/2012 09:48:36 PM
To me this is just not an interesting shot.
 03/30/2012 09:34:52 AM
abstract - nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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