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Environmental Solution Or Scourge Of The Roads?
Environmental Solution Or Scourge Of The Roads?
Covert_Oddity


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Challenge: Free Study 2009-09 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Location: Sydney Australia
Date: Sep 30, 2009
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Street
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2009

 Taken at Hyde Park in Sydney.

I often find myself having conversations about whether more and more bikes on city roads is a good or bad thing.

My initial aim was to give the impression of a fast moving cyclist passing all the stationary cars, but the shots where you could make out the cars didn't look as good as this one so in the end I settled for just the cyclist with the hint of a single car.

Converted to B&W in Nik Silver Efex.

USM, flipped horizontally.
Created a new layer, added a little blur to enhance and soften the feel of motion and masked out the cyclist and road areas.
Cloned out some of the capture blur from around the cyclists helmet and the bike wheel to clean up.
Resize and SFW.

Statistics
Place: 181 out of 400
Avg (all users): 5.7847
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
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Votes: 144
Comments: 7
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 05/18/2010 10:11:29 PM
This is an awesome shot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2009 02:53:11 AM
Very cool effect & I like the B & W too.
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 10/05/2009 01:05:24 PM
Both. Drivers need to have a healthy fear of cyclists in order to remain respectful of their right to the road.
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 10/04/2009 07:59:43 PM
Supurb action shot.
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 10/04/2009 07:56:36 PM
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: Great use of motion blur - there really is loads of it, I image you must've been travelling along with the bike to get it so pronounced. I really like the high contrast too. Technically and artistically, this is really compelling stuff.

Critical stuff: I imagine editing this shot may have been a challenge, the very high contrast makes the image look a little blocky which makes me think you are hiding a degree of unsharpness that other edits couldn't mask. Having said that - all credit to you for choosing an edit that worked.

Overall: A very, very well executed image.
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 10/01/2009 08:47:37 AM
Love the high contrast and blur. Nice one.
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 10/01/2009 12:12:30 AM
Scourge of the roads ( hey guys, those traffic lights apply to you as well! )
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