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Battling the Breeze
Battling the Breeze
timfythetoo


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Challenge: Wind II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Columbus Oh
Date: Oct 28, 2006
Aperture: 5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Black and White, Action
Date Uploaded: Oct 28, 2006

 Had this idea and wanted a friend to pose but Aimee said it should be me. Had one cloudy and really windy day. Set the camera up in the road and had Aimee hit the plungger. My neighbors think we are nuts.

I was shooting for an old silent movie feel to the editing. The umbrella isnt in the best of positions and after a reshoot (wasnt sure if some of the editing i did was legal) I decided my body position and facial expression are what sold the shot more than a perfectly placed umbrella. I left space onthe right open for more of a feel of wind. It was windy but not in the direction I was facing.

PP - RAW conversionwith shadow and highlight contrast, sharpen and noise reduction. In PS - layered out background and progressively gaussian blurred it out, levels, saturation adjustment layers to shift to b&w, dodging and burning all over the place, cloned out a logo on my shirt and various leaves on the ground, high pass sharpen, USM, spot blurring, resize, NI, more cloning to clean up halos, USM again, border and save for web.

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.4564
Avg (commenters): 7.2692
Avg (participants): 5.8977
Avg (non-participants): 6.7778
Views since voting: 1806
Views during voting: 624
Votes: 241
Comments: 45
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 11/10/2006 03:51:14 PM
Great shot, congrats on your high finish!
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 11/07/2006 04:44:06 PM
Awesome idea! The black and white works so wonderfully for this photo.
If there ever comes up another challenge to redo a photo, I think adding some newpaper and/or leaves blowing past you would make this stand out so much more (I think the biggest thing that hurts this photo is the leaves on the road that are seemingly not moving at all).

Great job :)
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 11/06/2006 04:35:25 PM
this is a very cool photo - but, shouldn't the umbrella be turned in inside-out, based on the direction that the wind is supposedly coming from?
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 11/06/2006 11:31:00 AM
UNDERRATED!!
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 11/06/2006 10:38:56 AM
Who cares what the neighbors think when you can end up with photography like this, right? This is really great!!! Glad it finished so strong.

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 11/06/2006 08:12:18 AM
Awesome job Tim!! Congratulations on the 13th place. I thought this picture should have been in the top 10!
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 11/06/2006 06:41:10 AM
I was hoping to see this in top 3. Brilliant photo and underrated. Well done!
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 11/06/2006 06:33:48 AM
nice job . 13th's not bad. i was hoping you'd do better though. congrats.
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 11/06/2006 01:17:52 AM
Perhaps underrated. Needless to say glad to it finish in the top 20. Congratulations.
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 11/06/2006 12:27:56 AM
Congrats Tim on a great image. Aimee was right. You were perfect for this and I can't see it being any better. :)
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 11/06/2006 12:20:32 AM
such a great set up. darn! i saw blue here.
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 11/06/2006 12:12:21 AM
Tim this is freakin' killer man! Yeah this could rank higher for sure! Love it man This might be the print ...
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 11/06/2006 12:11:08 AM
This deserved a ribbon. Still think it's the best of the bunch.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/05/2006 11:51:29 PM
that's pretty awesome, the pose is perfect
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 11/05/2006 09:01:02 PM
great b/w and excellent illustration of the theme. well done.
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 11/05/2006 11:00:22 AM
the art of pantomine isn't dead :)

Like the humor and the b&w treatment - background distracts as it's light and busy. well composed otherwise, good selection of the B&W
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 11/05/2006 06:58:46 AM
One of the best - well done, like the choice of bw..
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 11/04/2006 11:55:11 PM
Return for comment. Love this one. Reminds me of a movie. Doesn't look like a real wind scene, but it just has a great feel to it. Bumping to 9.
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 11/04/2006 01:38:20 AM
Nice pose and B&W choice. Some other evidence of wind would help, at least a leaf or two falling or moving, even if dropped by a person or blown by a fan. As it is, it feels too posed.
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 11/04/2006 12:34:45 AM
A very stylish entry and beautifully pulled off. Great job 8
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 11/03/2006 07:04:21 PM
Good imaginative shot, love the pose. Black and white was a good choice as well. 8
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 11/03/2006 06:41:14 PM
very nice.
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 11/03/2006 08:11:01 AM
i think this pic really capture the mood of how strong the wind is..
nice..
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 11/03/2006 02:32:21 AM
Odd border is not attractive. I like the subject pose.
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 11/03/2006 01:19:23 AM
Good concept and technically nice but not convincing. You went to the extent to get an umbrella to look like it was wind blown but you didn't do anything to give us the illusion6 with your clothing [pants legs]. you could of stuffed them behind your legs with other material or eve a clothes hanger to make it look as if your pants was blowing in the wind as well.

Still a nice shot but would of scored higher it more convincing.
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 11/03/2006 12:07:36 AM
OUTSTANDING!! 10
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 11/02/2006 06:30:21 PM
LOL! Hello, Mr Toole. I like the comic aspect of this quite a bit - kinda like those old movies but with cars and mailboxes. Your pose is quite convincing, particularly the look of grim determination.
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 11/02/2006 05:57:14 PM
This picture makes me giggle. Nice example of bokeh as well.
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 11/02/2006 10:32:08 AM
there doesn't seem to be any actual wind here as far as i can tell. which makes his pose to me that much more impressive, he certainly makes one believe that there is an invisible force that he's fighting against. i also am glad for the b&w and the blurred background which helps keep the focus on the man. 9
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 11/02/2006 08:19:59 AM
Nice shot, with good contrast and great background seperation. I think there could either be more or less space on the right hand side - it feels proportionally wrong in some way. I'm not convinced about the border, either. Love the sharpness of the foreground, and the expression and the line of his arm is fabulous.
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 10/31/2006 10:55:44 PM
A most entertaining capture speaking of man against the wind! Bump.
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 10/31/2006 04:41:33 PM
This is great! 10
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 10/31/2006 10:12:47 AM
nice try. none of the leaves on the ground are blowing.
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 10/31/2006 02:42:14 AM
Good concept and pose.. just is distracting to me that the leaves on the street aren't blowing too.
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 10/30/2006 11:34:25 PM
nice idea, nice photo and all and its in my higher scores but, I'm a little bothered by the leaves on the ground that aren't being blown away by the huge wind.
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 10/30/2006 07:55:24 PM
Marcel Marceau would be proud of you. I know I am.

Good one. Um, maybeee a little oversharpened.
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 10/30/2006 07:28:20 PM
Simply a delightful image to view over and over again. Wonderful concept and excellently taken. My fav for this challenge :)
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 10/30/2006 03:08:15 PM
This is a nice concept but the still leaves on the ground really give it that "obvious setup" feeling.
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 10/30/2006 12:24:10 PM
You need the effect of the wind pressing pant legs back against legs for this to really work. Good idea, though.
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 10/30/2006 10:11:11 AM
saw this image whilst browsing the thumbnails.. very very good, although the stationary dry leaves on the ground detract from the overall effect... very nice shot though.
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 10/30/2006 09:46:19 AM
blue!
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 10/30/2006 07:51:47 AM
very cool! I really don't see the wind but you have created the illusion so well.. 8
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 10/30/2006 02:07:17 AM
quirky...fantastic b and w image
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 10/30/2006 12:33:24 AM
Firstly, I really dig your frame as it adds to this theatrical submission. Since you went to the effort anyhow, a leaf blower may have kicked up some of the leaves on the ground that betrayed your subject. No need to worry as the betrayal was weak and you walk away with a 7 from me. Good luck!
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 10/30/2006 12:09:13 AM
This is superb. Makes me think of an old Charlie Chaplin movie. Great shot!!! Love the contrast and DOF.
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