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Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo
deepfrog17


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Children's Toy (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Home
Date: Apr 3, 2006
Aperture: F8
ISO: 64
Shutter: 5 sec
Galleries: Studio, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Apr 4, 2006

 set up in dark-ish room with thomas and a painting of mine, used a ski as 'tracks' for thomas to sit on, and the smoke is a burning insense stick. a quick flash from behind thomas during exposure lights the smoke. took around 100 shots to get the smoke and flash in the right place.

darkroom: cropping, adjusting curves, adjusting saturation, dust and scratches, sharpen, and save

Statistics
Place: 59 out of 300
Avg (all users): 5.6410
Avg (commenters): 7.1429
Avg (participants): 5.2927
Avg (non-participants): 5.8938
Views since voting: 889
Views during voting: 269
Votes: 195
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 04/18/2006 10:58:13 PM
*Critique Club*

"Chugga Chugga Choo Choo" is a wonderful entry into the Children's Toy challenge. In todays society anyone with a little boy knows who Thomas is and how magical he is. Great choice of subject!

The image its self grabs your attention. The lighting is the first thing I notice because it is enhancing the subject and the smoke. I bet you had a hard time deciding on the background for this shot. To me the background seem a little off but I think it would have affected the shot way to much if you decided to go with a solid background. The only thing I might try is to add some light from the front side, so we have a little light on the face. It was a great idea and congrats on the top 20%. I look forward to your future submissions.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/11/2006 08:04:37 PM
awesome
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 04/11/2006 05:31:01 PM
Thomas needs to cut out the smokes. Other than the smoke the image is under exposed or I would have rated this higher.
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 04/10/2006 04:22:46 PM
Great imagination setting this shot up! Just a couple of tiny blown out area's. Nice work Gratz.
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 04/08/2006 02:34:04 AM
well done with the backdrop and smoke/steam effects!
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 04/08/2006 01:13:35 AM
Nice idea, good smoke, background, composition. Just wish for more illumination on face of train, but I love the shot.
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 04/07/2006 03:41:14 AM
good
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 04/07/2006 02:13:13 AM
Good idea for the execution. although I feel the background doesn;t suit the light from the side at all. If the background picture was lit a little bit more, the light from the side wouldn't have distracted from the main picture so much. Also, the smoke is very well done, seriously, but the fact that the wheels are so stationary is also not helping. I wouldve maybe looked at putting grass and twigs in the foreground to hide the wheels a little and make it seems as if it's pastures he is moving through. Besides that, good shot and good luck for the next challenge! :)
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 04/05/2006 07:37:02 AM
Works for me.....
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