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Low Tech Water Pump
Low Tech Water Pump
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Challenge: Low Tech (Advanced Editing II*)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Date: Nov 19, 2004
Aperture: f13
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Architecture, Rural
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2004

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Place: 34 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.8448
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
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Views since voting: 1370
Views during voting: 234
Votes: 174
Comments: 11
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12/05/2004 11:13:09 PM
Water pump? I thought that was an emergency Roulette wheel used when the Valley was flooded. ;-)
Good shot - one just like it I saw earlier. I liked the other one a bit better, but this is up there. :)
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12/05/2004 07:26:38 PM
That is perhaps the queerest looking windmill I've ever seen (so many blades!). I think the inclusion of the house in the background is lovely and suits the windmill nicely. I wonder if you'd have use a wider angle and gotten slightly closer to the windmill would that have been better. Perhaps with a wider aperature as well to blur out the house, which would still be discernible. I think the trees on the left could have been cropped out to better effect. It's definitely low tech, and you get a bonus for meeting the challenge.
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12/05/2004 05:20:16 PM
The water pump is very interesting, especially because of the beautiful rotor, but the house draws to much attention away imho. Perhaps that another angle or just using the rotor itself as a subject might create a stronger impact. The way the light from the back illuminates the rotor blades from the back is interesting. Despite that the composition is good.
Exposure and contrast balance is very good, colors look natural.
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12/05/2004 04:05:53 PM
Oh, so that are waterpumps?
I see them all the time in American films (movies whatever word you like) normaly they are broken and make a sqeeky sound :-) But now I know what they are..
I learn every day... If you know how they work you can tell mee because I dont see anything go into the ground...

On the photo, it's 100% low-tech and the nice house and the sky add to the photo.. (8)
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12/05/2004 01:26:35 PM
Good subject. As is, the house competes with the pump for focal point attention. Composition could have been improved by using a shorter depth of field - having the pump in sharper focus than the house in the background. Alternately, a tighter crop on the pump would have also worked. Overall, a decent shot.
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12/03/2004 11:54:25 AM
Good composition, nice lighting and sharpness. Might be interesting to shoot a closup of just the windmill wheel itself as a geometric abstract.
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12/03/2004 12:22:28 AM
Very wholesome photo. Well composed. Good luck!
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12/01/2004 09:19:25 PM
It is all in the tiltle. lol A very nrat image. 7
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12/01/2004 01:18:10 AM
Nice compostion and colors. Water pump though? Wouldn't that imply that there is something in the ground? Looks like a weather vane to me. NIce job anyway.
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11/30/2004 11:59:33 PM
My top 2.
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11/30/2004 01:02:41 PM
love the sky, and great contrast w/ the subject
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