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Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: HP PhotoSmart 733
Location: BWI Airport, Baltimore, MD, USA
Date: Jun 8, 2004
Aperture: f/4.9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1075 sec
Galleries: Travel
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2004

 Landing at BWI Airport, snapped this one as we were coming over the highway.

NoiseWare, USM 100/0.25/3, gaussian blur (RLE 2.0), levels, curves, HSV, spot edit, crop, border

Statistics
Place: 8 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.5284
Avg (commenters): 8.5000
Avg (participants): 6.1250
Avg (non-participants): 7.0125
Views since voting: 1927
Votes: 176
Comments: 24
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/24/2004 06:11:56 PM
By the way, in response to a number of posts here, I just snapped this shot from my window on a 737 (Southwest Airlines, landing at BWI on my way down to Norfolk, VA on business... breaking the "no electronics" rules! tsk!).

The original shot had a few more cars, and obviously, didn't have such stark contrast. Using levels and curves, I was able to force the entire ground area to disappear into almost pure black, while bringing the lines up and saturating them. I then went in with the clone brush and cleaned up the lines on the road (all of the cars except the white one had faded away to near blackness, leaving "holes" in the lines).

Finally, cropped it in a little bit to balance the composition.

The original is over here...



Thanks for all your great comments!

/Andrew
06/21/2004 12:54:16 AM
I'm so sorry that I didn't get to vote on this challenge. This woud have been my top vote. I work for HP and it's good to see such art coming from an HP camera. Outstanding photo!
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 06/21/2004 12:08:51 AM
Thanks for the great comments, everyone!

Managed to finish in the top 10, so I'm certainly very happy. I'll post more tomorrow, but I'm headed to sleep right now... thanks for all of your votes and comments!

/Andrew
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2004 10:54:15 PM
Unreal...
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 06/20/2004 09:04:06 PM
You caught it at the perfect time. Congrats!
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 06/20/2004 07:20:49 PM
simply amazing.
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 06/20/2004 05:50:41 AM
Inredible POV! You really must have tweaked the contrast of this one, or it was taken under the floodlights...
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 06/19/2004 12:51:14 AM
Stunning image. The street and the car below are exceptionally graphic and well done. But, the wing flaps (I know you were going for bith airplanes and autos) take up too much of the image. I hope you tried the same shot with less wing.

Even with the wing flaps as is, it's a very strong and graphic submission.
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 06/18/2004 11:59:28 AM
This is 1 of my 2 10's... Love to know how you did this!
Please, I did not vote 10 to receive nothing back :)
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 06/16/2004 07:47:41 PM
How did you do that??? Great shot.
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 06/16/2004 07:24:07 PM
Wow, impressive. I like the colors. Good luck!
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 06/16/2004 07:11:48 AM
What a fabulous capture and great composition helps to make it a top shot.
hope this does well...good luck
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 06/16/2004 03:58:38 AM
Wonderful composition. Excellent idea. The yellow lines make it all. Very well executed. This is the best image I have come across thusfar in this challenge and I hope you will do very well with it. My first 10.
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 06/16/2004 12:04:24 AM
Very sweet shot. Like the depth of the black.
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 06/15/2004 04:25:00 PM
pick of the litter. Great geometry and strong use of color allow this composition to shine.
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 06/15/2004 04:12:50 PM
nicely caught....
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 06/15/2004 04:10:26 PM
Ooh wow, that's spectacular.
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 06/15/2004 03:59:36 PM
Great photo. Not sure how you achieved the black tarmac appearance with the roads but it looks nice, even if somewhat artificial. Deep DOF and color contrasts between the 2 subjects is good.
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 06/15/2004 02:40:38 PM
Very clean and simple. I can't figure out why the ground is solid black beyond the edges of the highway lanes, but it worked nicely for this image, keeping everything stark and man-made in appearance. High marks from me. :)
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 06/15/2004 12:48:52 PM
interesting viewpoint
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 06/14/2004 09:25:18 PM
Very nice capture. 10
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 06/14/2004 08:10:04 AM
Love this. Very dynamic and unusual.
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 06/14/2004 07:18:23 AM
very nice pic. like that the only thing you see on the ground is the road (and the car).
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 06/14/2004 05:59:00 AM
Great graphic
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