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Santa Monica Traffic
Santa Monica Traffic
mikewill73


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: City Life II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Santa Monica
Date: Dec 30, 2005
Aperture: 8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 8 seconds
Galleries: Cityscape, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jan 3, 2006

PCH & California Incline at sunset showing Santa Monica Pier. Used long shutter speed.

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Place: 34 out of 173
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Votes: 378
Comments: 27
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01/17/2006 10:41:25 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Congratulations on your very fine entry in your first Challenge.

The composition of this image is excellent with the nice leading lines of the traffic and bridge taking the viewer into the bright lights of the city. You smudged out the potential distraction of the near wall that is blue in the image. The Santa Monica pier jutting out is a perfect foil to the bridge. Good color, good detail. Good score.

Keep up this way and you'll be on the front page before you know it.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/10/2006 11:27:04 PM
BEAUTIFUL! Great color and exposure. Nothing negative to say at all.
01/10/2006 07:27:37 PM
Very nicely done! Good luck with this entry.
01/10/2006 04:48:52 PM
i really like this composition.
01/10/2006 11:46:31 AM
Good exposure, maybe could crop some sky out.
01/09/2006 08:18:03 PM
very interesting photo. nice use of colors
01/09/2006 04:28:44 AM
Nice capture. Perhaps not remarkable but I know how hard these are to take.
01/08/2006 11:20:16 AM
Possibly I would have cropped a corner from the top left corner to 2/3rd in both axis.
01/08/2006 07:29:29 AM
Wow factor here!!! Cool, real cool shot, great movement, as well as great colors.....
01/07/2006 06:15:31 PM
I've seen a lot of these "long-exposure car-lights" shots, at this point. I think yours is quite good, but it doesn't really manage to stand out.
01/07/2006 01:30:42 PM
unoriginal
01/07/2006 01:22:14 PM
Nice shot. I find the light on the right side distracting and the little bit of the tree on the upper left. IMHO they both should have been cropped out.
01/06/2006 10:43:22 PM
One of the better light trail images this challenge, well done! I find the barrier and hedgerow a little distracting , but like the rest of the composition.
01/06/2006 08:46:44 PM
Best of the traffic scenes - good use of leading lines
01/06/2006 07:56:01 PM
Nice lines, compostion and colors esp. the sky.
01/06/2006 06:10:35 PM
Nice lights and color. The blue is overdone, but I still like it a lot.
01/06/2006 01:58:30 PM
Beautiful coloration and perspective here, contrast between sky and traffic stream; the only thing I wished for was more clarity and definition in the BG which occupies half of the picture
01/06/2006 01:16:21 PM
Beautiful! I love the contrast b/w the blue and the red. Great work!
01/06/2006 02:11:17 AM
great shot...a minor issue for me is the tree poking into the shot on the top left...n maybe a little at the bottom of the shot...apart from that...lovely colors and composition 8
01/05/2006 09:59:49 PM
i love the blue in the sky, and of course the ocean always adds a nice touch, well done
01/05/2006 02:58:35 PM
Beautiful! Colorful and dreamy. I love the foggy background and the streetlights on the dock showing illuminating the fog. The sky is gorgeous, the 6-pointed star effect is nice on the lights, I like the use of a vanishing point with the fence and highway and dock.
01/05/2006 02:26:32 AM
Gorgeous colour, well executed. the cobalt sky and light trails compliment each other beautifully. 8
01/04/2006 11:41:28 PM
Lovely colours and the long shutter conveys motion well - appropriate for the title. I like the composition as well - good work.
01/04/2006 11:35:15 PM
stunning, but a little far from "life"... then again, maybe that is a problem with Santa Monica!
01/04/2006 07:21:56 PM
nice, I like the atmospheric conditions you captured
01/04/2006 07:03:28 AM
i cant find live in this one .. ice
01/04/2006 01:28:55 AM
Oh wow. It looks just like that too, with the pier off in the distance. Had a great vacation there this summer - thanks for the nostalgia. Great lighting and for the smile you gave me- 9


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