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Challenge: Motion Blur II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: living room
Date: Jun 24, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 3.2
Galleries: Action, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2006

 I wanted to take a photo of something creative and while I was thinking I watched my brothers race a toy HOT WHEELS truck and a 2 inch ball that lights up around the living room carpet.The ball won of course but I didn't care.The ball and truck had given me an idea!
This is what I did:
1.I vaccuumed a blue carpet(and the rest of the house as well)
2.I grabbed a side of the carpet,lifted it up and propped a suitcase there to keep it up.
3.I placed a truck on the carpet and put my camera in front of it. I prefocused my camera and bounced the ball to make it light up.
4.I pressed the shutter the rest of the way as I rolled the ball through the scene.

on the computer I did:
Convert from RAW
Clone out hair/dust/dirt
Curves
Levels
Resize
USM

Statistics
Place: 171 out of 177
Avg (all users): 4.2316
Avg (commenters): 4.1667
Avg (participants): 4.0667
Avg (non-participants): 4.3391
Views since voting: 1028
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 190
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/05/2006 09:09:56 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: I do agree with Rebecca that the highlights are a bit blown. However, I do like the movement that you created with the background. I think that this was a very creative idea.

Lighting: Just a touch too harsh. If this had been toned down just a little, I think that the voters would have been more fond of it.

Composition/Content: I also think that your composition needed some work. While I am no stickler for the 'rules of photography,' I think that the centering did not work very well for this one.

My Opinion: You absolutely met the challenge, and did so in a very creative manner. I just don't think that it was what the majority of the voters had in mind for the challenge. Even still, I like it, and with some minor lighting and composition changes, I think that it would have pulled a better score.

Eric
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/02/2006 05:10:27 PM
Besides the blown highlights on the truck, I'm not fond of the moving glowsticks(?) in the background.
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 06/28/2006 10:47:03 PM
I'm missing the motion here... It looks like the lights behind the truck are being moved... And that's certainly motion blur -- but it doesn't impart any sense of motion in the subject. I think I would better like a shot similar to this where the truck was actually rolling (the wheels would blur) past a blurred background that was caused by the movement of the truck. Perhaps it's just a difference in "artistic preference" though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 07:22:05 AM
Very nice colours and detail work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2006 11:04:48 PM
Beautiful colors on the lights in the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/26/2006 07:33:50 PM
What kind of blurring?
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 06/26/2006 05:38:30 PM
Nice bokeh ;-)
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 06/26/2006 01:23:00 PM
hehe. this is humorus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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