midnight mini-challenge? - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III

08/24/2004 01:58:59 AM · #1

Anyone up for a small mini-challenge because you're bored and have nothing better to do? How about "Night Traffic".. to be completed by dawn Pacific time. No prizes, no voting.. just us night owls running out into the dark to have a little bit of fun.

Or, I could be just completely out of my mind with sleep deprivation.

How about it?

LittleGreenKat

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

08/24/2004 02:01:27 AM · #2

wish i could but i got a job fair to go to early in the am and need my sleep, but i'll take a rain check... sounds like this could be a fun thing to do everyonce and a while...

moi

Sammie

Olympus OM-D E-M5

Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

08/24/2004 02:05:40 AM · #3

I'd like to as well - I live in the country and there is no traffic for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.

08/24/2004 02:05:46 AM · #4

Well, I'll just simply make it an open thing. If you feel like it, run out into the night and take a photograph of traffic at night. Could be a busy thoroughfare, or a lone car on a lone road. Just have fun with it, and post your pictures if you do take them. It's a little something to think about if you're as bored as I am, and yet unable to sleep.

Have fun, and don't forget the tripods! ;)
*Edit*
No closing date on this one.. if you catch this thread overseas later tonight, feel free :) We'll just see where it takes us.

d14

Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro

08/24/2004 02:24:38 AM · #5

I was gonna take you up on the challenge,. but it looks like we're starting to get a few raindrops here and I'm too lazy to put my top up.

VisiBlanco

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/24/2004 02:33:41 AM · #6

How about a 2 night challenge? It's raining out, maybe I'll get some lightning shots though :-\

08/24/2004 03:00:26 AM · #7

Aww.. Rain doesn't stop a *real* photographer! ;)

j/k.

Anyway, to get whatever ball rolling I possibly can.. here's my submission:

ScantyNebula

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

08/24/2004 03:58:52 AM · #8

Neat shot!! I'm going to go take one .. no traffic tho! I'm in a small city in Alberta .. so umm yea this time of the night its pretty dead.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

08/24/2004 04:00:49 AM · #9

You never know Scanty.. that one little car going for emergency tylenol ... somewhere... (I'm from Alberta, I know the deadness of small towns there. Rocky Mtn. House to be exact).. could show up just as you're setting up! ;)

frumoaznicul

Canon EOS-20D

08/24/2004 04:03:20 AM · #10

Originally posted by ScantyNebula:

Neat shot!! I'm going to go take one .. no traffic tho! I'm in a small city in Alberta .. so umm yea this time of the night its pretty dead.

Send some pizzas to an adress down the road, then send some cabs, then call 911 tell them there has been a huge accident down the road and they should send as many police, ambulances and firefighters as they can. That would give you some traffic. :))

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

08/24/2004 04:05:15 AM · #11

Hahahaha.. funny you should mention that. On my way back from getting my shot, a taxi went by me, and I was kicking myself because I couldn't set up fast enough, and then I got to thinking about calling for a cab to an address down the road and setting up secretly to shoot it as it went past, but then I thought... naahhh... they probably have call display :)

frumoaznicul

Canon EOS-20D

08/24/2004 04:15:59 AM · #12

We used to do that as kids, send police, fireworkers, ambulances, all sort of servicess and about 5-10 cabs to someone's door if they pissed us with something. Back then phones where analog, now everything is digital and traceable and I am more mature... so they say... :))

VisiBlanco

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/24/2004 04:17:26 AM · #13

Okay, so it doesn't exactly fit the challenge, but I thought I would share. :)

08/24/2004 04:19:17 AM · #14

That's gorgeous visi.. what are the details on that shot?

VisiBlanco

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

08/24/2004 04:30:28 AM · #15

Originally posted by Artyste:

That's gorgeous visi.. what are the details on that shot?

Thanks. I used my Sigma 12-24mm lens at 12mm. F4.5 for 30 seconds @ iso100.

ScantyNebula

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

08/24/2004 04:51:58 AM · #16

Pretty boring and kinda dark .. but it was really the only interesting subject around =/

Here's our apartment building .. I think one car drove by the whole time I was out there .. lol

melking

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM

08/24/2004 07:32:29 AM · #17

Hey Johanne what time did you take the photos?

ScantyNebula