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Toy Car Graveyard
Toy Car Graveyard
BeckyT


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Challenge: Bits & Pieces (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Laundry room
Date: Jul 31, 2006
Aperture: f18
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6sec
Galleries: Transportation
Date Uploaded: Jul 31, 2006

 I didn't think I was going to enter this contest until I saw my son busting up some of his old toy cars with a hammer into little bits and pieces. I gathered up the pieces, got my daughters black satin graduation dress for the background. Setup everything in the laundry room. While shooting I manually held up a polarizer filter to reduces the glare on the cars. Opened the JPEG file in photoshop. I didn't do a whole lot of post processing.

very sligth curve adjustment
USM
saved for web

It killed me to leave the dust particles in the photo but when I went back and read the rules it said I was not allowed to do any cloning to remove the dust particles. So I left them.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/08/2006 05:45:38 PM
It just doesn't grab me. If you could have added a unique perspective on it perhaps but as it is it is just a pile of broken toys - sorry.
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 08/04/2006 07:42:01 AM
More attention to composition, details of specks on the cloth and how the cloth itself is sitting and capturing light may have helped improve your shot. That being said, it's definitely bits and pieces!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2006 09:39:55 PM
Like the smashed cars idea.
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 08/02/2006 10:58:23 AM
So THATès where my old Hot Wheels went!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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