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Challenge: Late Night (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica, California.
Date: May 1, 2005
Aperture: 25
ISO: 200
Shutter: 30s
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: May 3, 2005

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 05/17/2005 03:34:42 AM
Originally posted by mpemberton:
GREAT! I like it. A tad to much one the white. 9.

Thank you for taking the time to comment the image. I'm not sure I understand what you mean, though. Is it that you think the whites are too blown out?
 05/17/2005 03:31:51 AM
Originally posted by Cutter:
a lot of ferris wheels, odd angle distracts

Thank you for your comment. I understand the first part and agree with it to an extent. There have been a lot of pictures taken of ferris wheels. I was just trying to take one in somewhat a different way than you normally see.
The second part of your comment I'm not so sure I understand. The angle might be "odd" as in "unusual", but that's not necessarily bad. I think I managed to create a balanced image and this angle makes it, in my opinion, more interesting than other more straight-on photos that I've seen. However that may be a matter of taste.
As to finding the angle distracting, I'm not sure what it could be distracting from since the ferris wheel is the only element in the image. Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly, so please, feel free to elaborate more on your comment.
 05/17/2005 03:19:35 AM
Originally posted by fifield:
love it, what was your shutter speed?

Thanks. It was a 30 second exposure, as you can see in the info.
 05/17/2005 03:18:28 AM
Originally posted by Uecker:
We've seen this shot about 10,000 times. Not very original, is it?

A very valid comment. I knew the subject was not very original when I took the picture, although my intent was to capture it in an original way. That's why I chose this type of angle as opposed to the straight on, flat, full view of ferris wheels that I've seen most often.
And that's also why I timed it so that the exposure happened partially as the ferris wheel was settling to a stop, so that I would get the spinning blur, but also the shape of some gondolas would become distinct.
Still, it's a very valid comment and I appreciate it.
 05/17/2005 03:12:23 AM
Originally posted by AJAger:
There's plenty of motion blur, yet some of the gondolas are quite distinct. I love the effect and look forward to hearing about your set up for this.


Thanks you for your comments. As you can now see in the info, I used a 30 second exposure with an ISO of 200 so that I wouldn't get any noise. Of course, I needed to use a tripod for this type of shot.

The way I got the gondolas to show up more was by timing the exposure to start about 15 seconds before the ferris wheel started to stop. That way I got some of them to be more distinct as they settled.

Message edited by author 2005-05-17 03:38:47.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/06/2005 09:09:01 PM
beautiful!
 05/06/2005 04:58:13 PM
a little too overprocessed with color.
 05/06/2005 07:16:54 AM
good pic in good timing
 05/05/2005 11:38:50 PM
Makes me dizzy, awesome
 05/05/2005 09:05:55 PM
like this one
 05/05/2005 06:01:30 PM
Great Job. Good Angle and Great lighting
 05/05/2005 05:38:18 PM
a lot of ferris wheels, odd angle distracts
 05/05/2005 03:15:55 PM
love it, what was your shutter speed?
 05/05/2005 01:36:38 PM
Have seen this motive millions time
 05/05/2005 11:20:00 AM
The lighting effect is really great. Colors at night!
 05/05/2005 08:24:24 AM
Well done. Congrat.
 05/05/2005 12:27:46 AM
Good angle on this. The colors are beautiful, too.
 05/04/2005 04:06:26 PM
Cool angle, and the colors are so vivid against the night sky.
 05/04/2005 01:45:55 PM
There's plenty of motion blur, yet some of the gondolas are quite distinct. I love the effect and look forward to hearing about your set up for this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 11:55:09 AM
Great shot.
 05/04/2005 06:41:30 AM
We've seen this shot about 10,000 times. Not very original, is it?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/04/2005 02:10:11 AM
GREAT! I like it. A tad to much one the white. 9.


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