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Christmas Flight Home
Christmas Flight Home
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Challenge: Travel (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-D60
Location: LAX, Los Angeles, CA USA
Date: Dec 25, 2002
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 sec
Galleries: Cityscape, Travel
Date Uploaded: Dec 29, 2002

190mm postshot PS6 crop + levels + saturation + resize + sharpen

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 131
Avg (all users): 6.2525
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 6.3605
Avg (non-participants): 6.1724
Views since voting: 1278
Votes: 202
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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01/06/2003 08:00:02 AM
Critique Club


Initial thoughts
Great capture of lights in the night – quite interesting subject matter.

Composition/ Content
The position of the tower at the left is balanced by the arches at the right. I like the diagonal lines of the flight taking off – kind of surreal that only the lights and not the craft are capturedâ€Â¦ It feels a little top heavy on the dark area of sky but not hugely so. Point of focus for me is the pair of diagonal lines.

Background
Most of the interest is definitely in the foreground, as intended. I like that I can just make out the hills behind.

Camera Work - Technical
Well exposed. No faults that I can see!

Digital Processing - Technical
Seems fine to me!

Fits The Challenge
Most definitely.

Your Opinion On The Photo
One that grew on me as I viewed it second and third times. The content doesn̢۪t have a great impact for me but what is there has certainly been composed and captured well.
01/06/2003 12:59:43 AM
Xmas night from a hill in El Segundo, overlooking LAX - took quite a few snaps & elapse - looks like i picked the right one --- the color of the restaurant arches cycle thru a variety of colors, just like the new 'mini-towers' that mark the entrance to the airport - purple would have looked good, too --- if i had a location with the right view, i could have shot the landing pattern with at least 9 planes ...
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2003 11:32:20 PM
Clear and pretty.
01/05/2003 11:29:16 PM
Excellent focus and capture of lighting. Some day I will be able to do this (????). Well done.
01/05/2003 01:03:57 AM
Nice picture!
01/03/2003 07:34:32 PM
a long exposure aye
01/03/2003 12:50:48 PM
Pretty neat, if that's a plane going by. A few too many glaring lights, though.
01/02/2003 02:08:07 AM
Enjoyed the clarity and composition of this image. I haven't seen too many photographs of LAX with the arches and tower combined. Nice. - z
12/31/2002 01:46:05 AM
love the blurred takeoff lights
12/30/2002 01:18:51 AM
This is an awesome airport shot at night. Beautiful job. Can't find anything wrong with this one. It's a solid 10. PTL


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