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Challenge: Free Study 2007-09 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Date: Sep 28, 2007
Aperture: 20
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/10 s
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2007

Not much editing at all.
Rorschach check the sidewalk while you are here.

Statistics
Place: 451 out of 503
Avg (all users): 5.0250
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0217
Avg (non-participants): 5.0357
Views since voting: 584
Views during voting: 200
Votes: 120
Comments: 22
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10/07/2007 06:03:58 PM
great blur! I love this shot.
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10/07/2007 11:02:04 AM
This is quite cool in an abstract kind of way, looks almost painted. 7
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10/07/2007 12:32:09 AM
I'm not surre what kind of effect you werre going for. To me, it looks like an originally blurry photo with filters added in post-processing to try and enhance it. Sorry.
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10/06/2007 06:31:46 PM
My guss is you'll get hammered for this - but I like it. 7 from me...
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10/06/2007 03:56:31 PM
From the thumbnail, I thought it was going to be a blurry pic. Then I open it and I see it's kind of artsy. Love how the grit on the ground creates some kind of depth to the photo. Interesting!
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10/06/2007 05:08:29 AM
very interesting pp work here leading to a relly good impressionist effect. The only slight distraction for me is the horizontal line right at the top of the picture. Otherwise really good.
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10/05/2007 09:22:08 PM
Interesting POV. Looks almost an impressionist
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10/05/2007 02:38:11 PM
Why so much blur?
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10/05/2007 01:38:34 PM
Not sure what you are trying to say with the blur /OOF but it does not seem to do anything positive for this shot.
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10/05/2007 11:43:28 AM
Does this photograph hold any interest? The subject(s) are unspectacular, if not trite. The motion blur appears to effect stationary objects. A cyan cast muddies the entire image, bleeding from a crack in the concrete.

The image appears as if divided into three panes, suggested by the cracks outlining the poured concrete of a contemporary sidewalk. The vertical nearly halves the landscape orientation -not quite but just enough to offset any sense of symmetry. The horizontal runs so close to the upper margin it could be mistaken for it, if it were not for the offset vertical which is equally out, by the same margin.

Comparing the distance between the top of subject on the left (the hat) and the top horizontal with the distance between its counterpart on the right (meter foot to bottom margin), we have (suprise!) symmetry. When we accept the presence of the three panes (via perspective as outlined by margin and cracks), it is easy to find the subjects in their traditional third.

This (the tension between the respective orders as much as that between the two unlike subjects) is both subtle and playful enough an order to be enjoyable. The meter, now, appears to have been placed deliberately in this photograph, which might as well be a painting. Its foot, after all, could be made of blown glass, while its eye is as yellow as it is watchful and unblinking.

As it is, the man with the baseball cap must be captured in flight, waving evidence.

-7-
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10/05/2007 10:36:33 AM
Prefer in black and white
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10/05/2007 08:31:41 AM
Blur = Abstract?
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10/04/2007 05:11:24 PM
Really nice shot. I like the way the line in the center splits up the composition. Cool textures and color.
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10/04/2007 06:01:50 AM
Interesting idea, not sure it really came off IMHO. The man & meter doesn't really hold my attention and I don't like the crop to include the walls at the edge of the sidewalk.
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10/04/2007 01:44:00 AM
avg vote, need a more interesting subject to make this work then someone in blue jeans and base ball cap. blur works just not subject for me.
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10/02/2007 10:40:54 PM
I like the ghostly effect of this shot.
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10/02/2007 10:38:23 PM
I love blur. This is great. Very minimalistic. The colors pop great against the gray background.
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10/02/2007 01:33:12 PM
Although I have to admit I don't like the picture too much. BUT I recognize and acknowledge that the composition and technique is executed flawlessly. Cutting the picture in half and applying the rule of thirds in each of the halfs is a great ackomplishment. And you know what? Now as I looked longer at it, I start liking it.
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10/02/2007 10:50:24 AM
COOL BLUR@@@
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10/02/2007 09:39:37 AM
I like it.
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10/01/2007 10:26:01 AM
Interesting shot, quite artistic. Like the way the blue tones are carried throughout. I wish there was a little more of interest in the shot though but still an interesting image.
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10/01/2007 05:42:00 AM
OOF and motion blurred, probably wrong white balance, too. Sorry, doesn't work for me.
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