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Speeding Color
Speeding Color
MadMan2k


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Challenge: Burst of Color (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Aztec, New Mexico
Date: Jan 5, 2006
Aperture: 13
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Transportation
Date Uploaded: Jan 7, 2006

Long exposure, alongside a highway in town.
Rotated, cropped, shadow/highlight, curves, brightness/contrast, unsharp mask, etc.

Statistics
Place: 183 out of 244
Avg (all users): 5.0705
Avg (commenters): 5.8000
Avg (participants): 4.8435
Avg (non-participants): 5.2778
Views since voting: 717
Views during voting: 322
Votes: 241
Comments: 6
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01/19/2006 03:06:54 PM
Hello from the Critique Club.
I don't know much about taking long exposure night shots (I've only ever taken one), so I'm not really able to say much about the technical aspects of this image. Not such a bad thing, because I don't much care for such tedious nonsense anyway. More interesting to me is "what does this image mean?" Well, it's your view of a Burst of Color, and a pretty good one, too. The black of the night obviously accentuates the bright colors, and I especially like your idea of interpreting the "Burst" part of the challenge title so well by making your colors explode across the canvas. There's another level on which I like the photograph as well ... the shape of it suggests a partial view space craft, in the classical flying saucer style. The rotation you've applied adds to that illusion. And of course so does the black-as-space night surrounding your saucer. It's an interesting (although presumably unintended) suggestion ... that bars, gas stations and roadhouses can, with their startling colours against the night, often appear to the traveller as exotic space stations, isolated oases in the blackness. Of course, in the morning they just look like grimy gas stations again.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/14/2006 08:52:15 PM
Nice use of creative composition and shutter speed here. Your decision to angle the shot gives even more of a kinetic feel to the photo. IMHO I find the wire at the top of the shot distracting. But not sure you can get rid of that within the challenge's basic editing rules. Just my opinion, nice shot nonetheless.... 7
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01/12/2006 12:34:35 AM
I like the color and composition... the diagnal lines give the picture alot of energy. They don't, however, lead the eye anywere except out of the frame. Since it is advanced editing... I would also recomend cloning out the power line. Never the less... a good image and good use of shutter speed.
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01/10/2006 04:32:37 PM
Interesting angle - would have preferred it without the golden arches, but that's a personal preference.
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01/10/2006 05:21:51 AM
Man those golden arches stand out like dogs balls don't they. Nice shot and the tilted horizon works well. Very nice image.
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01/09/2006 07:07:46 AM
Great Shot!
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