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The long ride home.....
The long ride home.....
Azrifel


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Challenge: Travel (Classic Editing)
Collection: ZZ DPC failures
Camera: Sony DSC-P1
Location: A10 Highway in West Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Date: Dec 27, 2002
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Urban, Travel
Date Uploaded: Dec 27, 2002

Represents the long and exhausting ride home where the eye begings to see strange things...

Taken from the dashboard of a Nissan Micra, traveling at 100km/h = app 60mph. All vibrations and bumps in the road are transferred to the camera, only a tripod and a stabilized lens would do better. This is not even near my final idea, but as I was driving myself and nobody to operate the camera (P1 is a nothing manual at all cam) the best I could do on a rainy night.
Resampled to 640x480 a 640x427 crop to take something of the bottom, unsharp mask, save for the web.

Statistics
Place: 124 out of 131
Avg (all users): 3.9140
Avg (commenters): 2.0000
Avg (participants): 3.7250
Avg (non-participants): 4.0566
Views since voting: 1057
Votes: 186
Comments: 6
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01/06/2003 08:49:15 PM
Critique Club by Natasha

Hi there Azrifel, I get to critique yours this time!
CONTENT-COMPOSITION
Your idea is good and I think that if people could have read the details while voting they would have understood the effect you were going after. As it is, it portrays motion well and fits the challenge, the way the lights bring you into the picture are also good, I also like the motion effect of the passing buildings. I have tried this kind of shot before, using no tripod from within the car, but I wasnt happy with the result. I think that a tripod is a must for this kind of shot, to get the focus. Personally I prefer to be stationary and then concentrate on the lights, yet keeping the buildings in focus. From within the car, I can imagine that it would be pretty hard to get both the focus and motion at the same time, but it's worth playing around with it, while someone else is driving!
MY OPINION
I like these kind of shots and it was one of the first things I wanted to try with my digital camera. Luckily trying different variations of this shot won't waste any film, so maybe find a bridge overlooking a busy road and see what you can find. I wonder if you had changed the title slightly, making it more obvious about the seeing strange things, then it might have helped.
Good Luck in the next challenge
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2003 06:43:20 PM
Need something in focust to look at. Sorry but this is a 1 in my book. PTL
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01/05/2003 07:55:56 AM
I like these shots, but I think they've been overdone since the motio challenge. Jacko.
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01/05/2003 01:15:52 AM
not much to say
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12/31/2002 03:31:20 PM
I'm trying to develop an appreciation of this kind of shot, but so far it just doesn't work for me...
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12/30/2002 06:46:44 AM
Perfect, that how I feel when I get tired driving long hours
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