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Toyota Prius Hybrid - Beat Them at Their Own Game
Toyota Prius Hybrid - Beat Them at Their Own Game
jbsmithana


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Automobile Ad (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Anacortes, WA, USA
Date: Dec 5, 2007
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Advertisement, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Dec 9, 2007

 Had this idea the minute I saw the challenge title; take a shot of a hybrid with the refinery in the background. Only chance I had to take it though was on a bright mid day so it took a bit of editing to minimize the harshness. Even so, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Editing steps:

RAW Conversion in RSP - Color Temp 7400, Tint -16, Exp. Comp +.31, Fill Light +35, Shadow Cont. 18, Highlight contrast -13, Med. Cont. Curve, Save as TIFF

Edit in PSE4 - levels layer to darken background, cooling filter (LBB) layer for background, Brightness layer for background to darken slightly, contrast layer to increase contrast on car, flatten layers, resize, USM, border, save for web.

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 60
Avg (all users): 6.4714
Avg (commenters): 7.7188
Avg (participants): 6.3659
Avg (non-participants): 6.4946
Views since voting: 1901
Views during voting: 487
Votes: 227
Comments: 38
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/25/2008 01:17:26 AM
Not Bellingham but close. It is Anacortes, WA.
 03/23/2008 08:27:51 PM
Excellent title for this. Is that Bellingham in the background?
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 12/17/2007 12:28:53 AM
great background for this image, well done on your finish
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/16/2007 11:55:38 PM
LOVE the imagery.
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 12/16/2007 11:36:04 PM
A high score from me, and an original take on the challenge.
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 12/16/2007 11:25:42 PM
Great concept, and well executed! If I would change anything, it would be to have just a little more foreground.
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 12/16/2007 01:08:17 PM
Nice context for this car!! And it's literally green. I think it could use a bit less sharpness on everything but the car. Overall, very nice.
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 12/16/2007 12:37:44 PM
You nailed it, you have the car, the reason you might want the car, I think itâs also ironic that you have shown a âgreen carâ colored green. My first 10.
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 12/15/2007 05:18:01 PM
That says it all /10
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 12/14/2007 10:44:48 PM
nice concept
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 12/14/2007 08:19:29 PM
Very nice. This is right to the point, BAM... in your face ad. Green, I give you green ;) If you don't get a ribbon, you definitely in honorable mention list :)
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 12/14/2007 06:12:34 AM
Very effective, and appropriately colored green...
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 12/14/2007 05:49:47 AM
Perfect, Prius should buy this one of you.
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 12/13/2007 08:44:24 PM
Excellent composition
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 12/13/2007 06:04:55 PM
A very well put together photo. BB
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 12/13/2007 05:41:18 PM
Nicely done.
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 12/13/2007 05:21:12 PM
Nicely done.
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 12/13/2007 09:35:36 AM
Great idea. The refinery looks a little off though ... kind of in between being a blurred background and being sharp. Would have liked this better if you had gone one way or the other, and also if the main part of the smoke plume from the stack in the middle was all in the shot. 5
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 12/13/2007 07:37:31 AM
Very good choice of location for the "ad"! I also like the fact the car is "green".
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 12/12/2007 05:13:53 PM
good use of background to get your point across. The lighting and DOF works really well here. I just think that a slightly different angle so we see the front of the car a bit would have just made this a bit better
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 12/12/2007 02:22:58 PM
brilliant so original
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 12/12/2007 07:48:15 AM
OK, the composition with the dirty background works really well here, so a few extra marks for that. good effort. Hope to see this in top 10.
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 12/12/2007 02:58:04 AM
Ahh, Silver Pine Mica paintjob - the epitome of a hybrid color. Perfect backdrop. Putting this car in front of a few H2's filling up at a gas station would have been hilarious. ;-)
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 12/11/2007 11:49:05 AM
Excellent ergo ad 9
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 12/11/2007 10:08:12 AM
my fav
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 12/10/2007 10:30:13 PM
In 20 years, we'll be fighting "big battery"
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 12/10/2007 09:42:58 PM
Great idea and execution. 7
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 12/10/2007 07:18:01 PM
Clever...I really like this.
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 12/10/2007 06:00:53 PM
Nice concept! Very Clever!
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 12/10/2007 02:17:37 PM
Lovely idea that I could definitely imagine being used to sell this vehicle. Love the sharpness on the car and the gentle bokeh backdrop which gets the 'selling message' across without either losing too much detail or over powering the image

Perhaps could have done with a little bit of a boost to the car colours but still an excellent 8
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 12/10/2007 01:29:28 PM
Perfect backdrop for the car.
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 12/10/2007 09:02:50 AM
Really really nice! 10
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 12/10/2007 07:19:50 AM
I hate these cars and all the hype that goes along with these poorly executed white elephants. They're such an awful hypocrisy! That said, this is a stellar example of how the advertising can cloud the real facts and make you buy into the idea and feel good about it. You've done this well. 8
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 12/10/2007 07:13:53 AM
nice concept, the CO2 fumes on the backgrnd and a enviromentally "clean" car
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 12/10/2007 06:19:57 AM
Nice mixing of the 2 scenes. The shadow at the front of the car is not idea.
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 12/10/2007 04:40:04 AM
good focus, DOF and color. crop at bottom is a bit tight
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 12/10/2007 02:31:45 AM
For sure
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 12/10/2007 01:39:01 AM
The only green car in the challenge ;) Great concept with the industrial back ground. I also like the almost two tone green and blue color concept of the shoot. I personally prefer a more front, rater then back view of the car. IMHO -8-
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