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Sun-flared layers of "Dust Screens Intercepting Shadows"
Sun-flared layers of "Dust Screens Intercepting Shadows"
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Challenge: Backlighting III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM
Date: Aug 17, 2007
Aperture: 18
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/4000
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2007

 It’s pretty much a straight out of the camera shot. I was about 600 feet away from the rider, and I was really trying to photograph the dust layers, which the horses stirred, being back light by the sun. So the order in the photograph goes like this (Sun then layers of dust then the rider then the last layer of dust that had received the darker shadow of the rider then 600 feet away the lens then me)

Statistics
Place: 126 out of 202
Avg (all users): 5.3545
Avg (commenters): 5.5789
Avg (participants): 5.0597
Avg (non-participants): 5.4837
Views since voting: 854
Views during voting: 328
Votes: 220
Comments: 23
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 09/04/2007 01:02:10 PM
Way cool. Love this shot. It's very artistic, and not as commercial as other DPC shots (not that I don't like those as well). Wish I could have voted on it.
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 08/29/2007 02:13:08 AM
Originally posted by daboardergirl:
I LOVED this one!!! Gave it an 8, and now seeing the end score, I wish I would have given a 10. It is very artistic. Screw 'DNMC'. How did you create this image?


Loool.
It̢۪s pretty much a straight out of the camera shot. I was about 600 feet away from the rider, and I was really trying to photograph the dust layers, which the horses stirred, being back light by the sun. So the order in the photograph goes like this (Sun then layers of dust then the rider then the last layer of dust that had received the darker shadow of the rider then 600 feet away the lens then me) Thanks. I love it too.
Thanks, I love it too
 08/29/2007 12:56:56 AM
I LOVED this one!!! Gave it an 8, and now seeing the end score, I wish I would have given a 10. It is very artistic. Screw 'DNMC'. How did you create this image?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/27/2007 11:38:23 PM
i thought the challenge said no silhouttes??...might have read wrong but love the pic, awesome!
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 08/27/2007 03:55:39 PM
Interesting effect; I like the motion but it does not appear to me that you avoided silhouetting your subject. I would probably crop at least a third more off the top to get rid of most of the glaring white and make the horse and rider a bigger part of the image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/26/2007 09:05:21 PM
Great shot. A little abstract due to the overlapping.
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 08/25/2007 10:57:40 PM
weird
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 08/25/2007 06:04:23 PM
Here's the catch: the subject must not become a silhouette because of the backlighting.
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 08/25/2007 11:58:21 AM
nice
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 08/25/2007 06:57:49 AM
Very different...I like it.
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 08/24/2007 07:11:39 AM
Sorry, this image is not to my taste, way too artsy for me. Gave you a 5 to try and influence your score as little as possible either way.
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 08/23/2007 12:40:46 PM
Creative & unusual! I like it! :)
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 08/23/2007 10:11:17 AM
wonderful image...really interesting shadow cast 8
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 08/22/2007 07:09:52 PM
Photo: Interesting. Title: What!?
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 08/22/2007 04:21:28 PM
I'm sorry, I have to say it...SILHOUETTE! Even when I stand up & peer down at my LCD monitor from directly above it. Other than that, it's a very interesting picture.
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 08/22/2007 04:20:18 PM
this is a really cool picture. even though its pretty much a sillhouette. i just love everything about it. the sun everything. really nice picture!
GOOD JOB!
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 08/22/2007 04:04:48 PM
nice
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 08/22/2007 03:56:37 PM
to me this is kind of a shilloette but i like the effect of the sun and the moving horse
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 08/22/2007 03:30:07 PM
Nice image - Great image very striking - My only complaint is that it is a silhouette and the challenge stated not to be. Such a shame - Brilliant image non the less but must be marked down for that.
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 08/22/2007 03:02:46 PM
unusual
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 08/22/2007 01:04:36 PM
not sure how you did this - it almost looks like a double exposure. Very artistic. I could see this as an fine art shot after some PP work, or maybe cropping. I would suggest cropping off the entire top halk, and leaving only the very bottom of the blown sun - just the rays.
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 08/22/2007 01:46:32 AM
"Here's the catch: the subject must not become a silhouette because of the backlighting."

You'll probably hear that a few times...
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 08/22/2007 12:50:44 AM
Ugh. Read the description.
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