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Challenge: Lenscap (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Stuff that Doesn't fit anywhere else
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Canton, NC
Date: May 16, 2006
Aperture: 11
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Humorous, Rural
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2006

 Okay, so I thought it was funny. I had to lie down in gravel to get this shot, that oughta be worth a point or two -- ouchie.

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I wanted to be able to get a deep enough dof so that it was all in focus, but alas, it was not possible on this go around. I am not sure it is possible at all. . .:(

IF this were advanced editing, I would have cloned around the tire to make the edge a bit more continuous. AND would have gotten rid of the guide wires.

Set up (If anyone cares) I made a little pile of gravel and stuck a nail in it. Then, I propped the lens cap on the nail. Laid down (gravel, I remind you) and lined everything up so it [supposed to anyway] looked like the lens cap was the tire.

Will probably bomb (nothing new for me), but maybe will garner a chuckle or two -- from nikon users.

Statistics
Place: 90 out of 183
Avg (all users): 5.3994
Avg (commenters): 5.8889
Avg (participants): 5.2963
Avg (non-participants): 5.4353
Views since voting: 1020
Views during voting: 549
Votes: 313
Comments: 33
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 05/24/2006 04:36:33 PM
GREAT dedication to your craft, fellow Jeep-owner! Kudos from me. Regarding "tripod not going low enough", even if you HAD a Manfrotto with a reversible center column, you'd still have been laying in the gravel :-) It's shots like this where tilt-screen LCD P&S cams ROCK! I mis my 5700 sometimes when I try to get my old bones low...

R.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2006 01:20:46 PM
haha...creative!
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 05/23/2006 09:06:31 AM
to fit at the right place ?, ... great...
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 05/23/2006 07:19:58 AM
ha! that's great, i bet that took some trial and error
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 05/23/2006 03:05:55 AM
Not terribly successful, but creative nonetheless.
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 05/21/2006 10:59:20 PM
Great idea and well composed. A higher f-stop making the Jeep as well as the lens cap in focus, may have had a better effect. Well done though.
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 05/21/2006 09:04:53 PM
Clever! If this was onsite, maybe you could have picked a location without the wires in the background? If using a computer monitor picture, you could have cloned those out.
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 05/21/2006 06:42:36 PM
NIce idea.
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 05/21/2006 02:47:34 PM
Cool idea. I like this one. I am assuming that lens cap is propped up against those rocks. Nice going. Good use of DOF I think. It seems like the lens cap should be out of focus as well, but being in focus brings attention to it, so nice going.
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 05/20/2006 09:14:20 PM
clever. deeper depth of field would have improved this. the guy lines in the background are a little distracting too, but this is a good idea!
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 05/20/2006 08:19:35 PM
Clever perspective. Took me a bit to figure it out.
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 05/20/2006 05:36:37 PM
Nice shot. Great execution!!!
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 05/20/2006 04:50:09 PM
Nice idea but the car needs to be more in focus to make this work
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 05/20/2006 09:40:01 AM
Very clever! I like this. I am guessing that you had your aperature at about F4.5 or 5.6? I would have liked to see the Jeep in better focus. I wonder how it would have looked with your aperature stopped all the way down to F18 or 22. Overall a good photo!
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 05/19/2006 05:36:35 PM
That's the WORLD'S BIGGEST LENSCAP! Great perspective - made me double take!
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 05/19/2006 04:30:50 PM
The problem being the car is out of focus while the lens cap is in focus. Solution would be to photograph just the car and print it, then put the cap on the photo and reshoot. Not a literal interpretation, so it would pass the rules.
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 05/19/2006 11:40:20 AM
Would have been better if you used a smaller apature so the vehicle is also in focus. Having the lens cap look like part of the vehicle and yet it be the only thing in focus is sorta odd.
I give it a 6 mostly for creativity
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 05/18/2006 08:45:27 PM
Lol, ur too creative
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 05/18/2006 06:58:09 PM
cool!!!!!! some of these shot can be very tricky to achive. good job
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 05/18/2006 12:45:52 PM
Nice shot. I'd preffer a deeper DOF.
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 05/18/2006 10:58:17 AM
Very cute. The depth of field gives the secret away. The lenscap is sharp, like the rocks, and the focus on the vehicle is soft. A smaller f/stop would have made this more realistic.
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 05/18/2006 10:40:14 AM
Very well done.
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 05/17/2006 04:58:20 PM
:-)
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 05/17/2006 02:02:33 PM
hahaha this must have been really hard to line up so perfect
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 05/17/2006 12:34:19 PM
Very good idea. Quite obvious but I don´t had this idea.
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 05/17/2006 10:28:08 AM
Good idea
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 05/17/2006 05:52:57 AM
Gotta question your DOF choice on this one, this just simply doesn´t convey that the lenscap is the hubcap since it´s in focus and the car not... Good idea, poor execution... Got a 5 from me.
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 05/17/2006 04:37:14 AM
nice idea
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 05/17/2006 03:44:59 AM
awesome illusion!! if only the DOF/focus was the same for both cap and car... great job though
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 05/17/2006 03:19:33 AM
DOF has left your jeep out of focus, there is a tutorial on DOF which may help in future shots, nice idea though
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 05/17/2006 01:00:12 AM
Needed better depth of field to work, the car is blurred and the lens cap is not... maybe a smaller aperture next time?
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 05/17/2006 12:53:44 AM
I like the usage of depth, but would've liked more focus on the jeep as well
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 05/17/2006 12:20:27 AM
Great use of forced perspective; it almost looks "fake" (which is, here, not a particularly bad thing).
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