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Challenge: Motion Blur (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Mar 22, 2004
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Date Uploaded: Mar 23, 2004

Taken while driving on Highway 24.

-0.5 eV exposure compensation. 2 Curves for contrast, sharpened, cropped to square, added thin border.

Statistics
Place: 111 out of 117
Avg (all users): 4.0833
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 4.0000
Avg (non-participants): 4.1456
Views since voting: 1237
Votes: 180
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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04/09/2004 02:04:38 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club...

Hi GeneralE...

My critique on this photograph is going to be in the form of a question to you. The answer to this question will be your critique :)

What was your intent with this photo?

When you list your intent(s), compare it with your personal list of all the elements that make up a truly great and inspiring photograph. Here is a partial list of elements that I believe make strong photos:

1. Interesting color
2. Interesting light
3. Interesting textures and shapes
4. Interesting point of view
5. Interesting subject
6. Interesting effects
7. Stirs emotion
8. Creates questions/mystery

This is not a complete list and there are very few photos that could possibly incorporate all of these at once. Any one of these, on its own, can create a strong image. Multiples combined into one image can create something phenomenal.

Tell me what you think :)

John Setzler
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/02/2004 10:35:37 PM
Looks like you are selling a Honda! 2
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/31/2004 06:37:51 AM
I'll give an extra vote for the bad puns.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/30/2004 12:51:29 PM
I would have liked to see some more blur to add more dynamics, it still looks rather static as it is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/30/2004 11:36:22 AM
To be brutally honest... it's just not interesting... :(
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/30/2004 10:22:45 AM
Either a very short shutter speed, or doesn't appear to be moving very fast.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/30/2004 02:55:33 AM
Unfortunately, it does not appear that motion blur is enhancing your shot - a slightly longer exposure / tracking shot might have made the background more swooshy and the wheels less well defined. And it's purely personal opinion which has not impact on my voting, but a white Honda isn't the most photogenic of vehicles. That aside, I like the composition and I reckon you did a reasonable job on what is a difficult process. 6.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/29/2004 07:44:48 PM
Slower shutter would have conveyed more speed/blur. I can see a little blur in the hub caps but the trees/hedge look more like shallow DOF to me. Hope this helps. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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