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Running from the Martian Storm
Running from the Martian Storm
nomad469


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Motion Blur II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Nikon D2X
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED
Location: muleshoe Texas
Date: Jun 21, 2006
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Rural
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2006

shot on the back side of a Texas Thunderstorm

Not very much editing done...

USM and boost the levels a bit

Statistics
Place: 152 out of 177
Avg (all users): 4.6277
Avg (commenters): 4.4000
Avg (participants): 4.3857
Avg (non-participants): 4.7712
Views since voting: 832
Views during voting: 291
Votes: 188
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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07/05/2006 09:31:31 AM
Hello from the Critique Club..

:-) Interesting title and interesting colors. I have seen Texas storms and can believe that this may well be as it appeared.

Technically the shot is fine, it meets the challenge and the composition is OK. The comments from the voters are interesting. There were a lot of similar entries, well why not it's a good choice for the challenge, but you would need to rise above the rest to really score well. The rainbow is probably the key. On my screen it barely shows and it is a shame that is could not have been more prominent. Perhaps a polarizing filter may have helped in this case to boost the saturation.

Overall nice work and creative title, but it doesn't have the WOW factore to hit the voters between the eyes.

Hope to see more of your work in the coming months.

Regards

Chris
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/02/2006 05:09:00 PM
It's a pity you've almost completely lost the rainbow, it would have made this version of a very common concept stand out from the pack.
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07/01/2006 08:07:20 PM
Awesome colour and good rainbow.
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06/29/2006 02:41:35 AM
The color cast is a bit overwhelming. play around with selective color in ps or raw conversion, and this would really pop.
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06/27/2006 03:51:50 PM
well, it's cool that there's a rainbow there, but the subject isn't really that interesting and the colors are very strange. I guess you did that on purpose, or it actually looked kinda like that. I'm not buying the martian story though, not a believer :-p
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06/26/2006 01:22:40 AM
The color cast ruined this.
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