Sunbeams and rain
by tonyv

Comment:
Very unusual in the way the rays converge -- like spotlights on a stage (might make a good BG for a collage).

At the Scent of Rain
by datcat

Comment:
Unusual presentation of what looks like a very opportune capture; nice combination of sharp and soft elements.

Thanks I Needed That!
by MPRPRO

Comment:
With the Advanced Editing rules in effect, I'd have been very tempted to clone out the cars -- they "break the mood" just a bit for me.

Distant Storm
by ShannonLee

Comment:
I liike the little patches of sunlight in the distant valley.

Reflection In The Road
by sajin

Comment:
Puddle outline pretty closely resembles outline map of US -- maybe you need to contact the tabloids : )

"The Monsoon Season"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Great example of local contrasts in weather conditions.

1968
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by woutje: I instantly feel the time period so good for you on capturing the challenge. You have an impossible dynamic range to capture here. I see a piece of the white cloth that is blown out and parts of the gun have no detail in the black. I would have like to have seen more details in the gun, without getting any brighter on the cloth.

Give the "impossible" tonal range, I have deliberately "gone to extremes" in the tonal range, partly in keeping with the growing extremism of the times, partly to make parts of the image disappear (which some compained about) to represent the "unknown" that we were facing in that time of turnmoil.

And, partly I did it to disguise that I used a really cheap plastic gun as my prop, and I wanted the parts of it people could see to look somewhat real--that little "Made in China" imprint just detracts a bit too much from the atmosphere ....

See the notes for the reasons I though a gun was a pretty good symbol for the year.

1st Birthday
by Artan

Comment:
Nice idea, no wax dripping on the cake this way : )

Belfry Windows
by GeneralE

Comment:
Here's the high-key version with a vignetted treatment.


Message edited by author 2005-08-08 02:34:01.

Belfry Windows
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by briphoto: how is this long exposure?

This is a long exposure in that it is longer than what would be "normal" in a deliberate attempt to isolate the windows within the white-on-white (high-key) building against the blown-out sky. I wanted to hold just the barest possible detail in the columns while making the windows look relatively normal. I guess I should have left out the "dark corners" and just made it a pure high-key photo.

However, it is not "over-exposed" it is deliberately exposed for longer than would be normal ... which I thought was the point of the challenge.

A "normal" exposure would have looked more like this:


Message edited by author 2005-08-08 02:09:45.