Road Rippers
by cbeller

Comment by KaDi:
Toy trucks did not get high marks from me--except this one. The extremely limited depth of field made the difference. Good luck!

Road Rippers
by cbeller

Comment by photom:
Think more DOF would have helped.

Abandoned in a Field
by cbeller

Comment by gerdagrice:
I would suggest cropping this to eliminate quite a bit of the sky (it's not adding anything to the image) and to make the car larger in the frame. I'd try cropping out about half the sky and a similar amount on the right of the image.

Road Rippers
by cbeller

Comment by billster:
Not my cup of tea

Road Rippers
by cbeller

Comment by BobsterLobster:
Interesting dof, imaginative composition. Just a little too much glare in the shot for me.

Happy Being Different
by cbeller

Comment by shinypenny:
nice image, fits the theme well

Happy Being Different
by cbeller

Comment by pcrymble:
Nice thought. Not sure about the focus though but the smiley faces are cool

Happy Being Different
by cbeller

Comment by onedoesntchoose:
The focus is a little off for me, but still a good idea.

Oops!
by cbeller

Comment by cbeller:
Thanks for all the comments. I will say, I was inspired by Swish! by alansfreed. Since I didn't have time to enter the technique used in the Photogs Comments before the challenge, here it is.

Dark room with a black backdrop and one light shining from the left side. I tied black thread to the tab of the can so I could raise and lower it. I set the shutter to one seconded and used rear curtain flash. With the camera on a tripod, I tripped the self-timer and ran over and lifted the can into the air and tried to steady it. The shutter opened, I quickly lowered the can down, the the flash fired to get the nice sharp capture of the can. I cropped out the top that had my hand, and also the bottom where you could see the table. Then there was the black line going up the blur, where the string was, so I cloned that out and adjusted the levels & contrast and I was done.

I would have liked to have cleaned the image up a bit more, but I didn't have enough time, as I only had about 15-20 minutes to edit and upload this.

Oops!
by cbeller

Comment by Diversq:
Very nice. Nice color blur and lighting. Everything is sharp where it should be and the lighting is pretty clean. 1 tiny flash mark other catches my eye a bit but over all still looks like a top 3 to me. Great job 8