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Tire trails in a snowy night
Tire trails in a snowy night
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Challenge: Painting With Light II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
Location: Home
Date: Feb 27, 2006
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10sec
Galleries: Vintage, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2006

 The setup is relatively simple: (1) maglite covered by a white shirt to reduce intensity and soften/diffuse the light; (2) a Laser measure; (3) a toy truck (2.5 inch long); (4) White paper. Placed the truck on the white paper. The maglight was placed in front of the model truck. I set exposure time to 10sec. While the truck was luminated by the maglite, I used the laser measure to draw up two parallel laser lines behind the truck. My original intent was to simulate the rear light trail for a passing car. But the line drawn by the measure was not that perfect, which actually makes more like the tire trails. :) Post processing was simply crop/color hue/level adjust in photoshop.. Thanks.

Statistics
Place: 43 out of 187
Avg (all users): 5.8333
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4773
Avg (non-participants): 5.9661
Views since voting: 902
Views during voting: 507
Votes: 324
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/08/2006 05:34:18 PM
CalliopeKel, thanks for the support.. Huh, check out the voting distribution, what a perfect gaussian curve... Now, just need to work on the next project to blue shift it more.. :)
 03/08/2006 01:13:11 AM
I gave this a 10 in the challenge. I thought it was an artful peice that is really classy. I loved the way you framed it too. Like for real.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/08/2006 12:31:49 AM
yeah.. I guess the border IS UGLY... it hurts.. Well, this is what makes DPChallenge a great place to learn and grow. Thank everybody for the constructive suggestions
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2006 10:25:54 PM
Great pic, but I think you're going to get hammered for the border/frame - took up too much of the picture.
 03/07/2006 04:32:28 PM
A too large border if you ask me . . .
 03/07/2006 02:57:15 PM
nice technique!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/07/2006 08:02:56 AM
Superb
 03/06/2006 03:00:35 PM
The non stationary light source does not seem apparant here.
 03/06/2006 12:38:59 PM
Very original! How did you manage to highlight the tracks like that?
 03/05/2006 05:50:49 PM
good work
 03/04/2006 01:09:47 PM
This is pretty cool..the blue is very nice and the tire trails are clever. I wish you would have left the border off of it, though...I think it would have been better without the frame and the photo itself larger, IMHO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/03/2006 04:37:33 PM
The large border detracts from the over all image. Nicely done on the picture, its just swamped by that massive white border.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/03/2006 01:22:31 AM
Cool image.....
 03/02/2006 08:01:53 PM
Interesting framing.
 03/02/2006 04:48:45 PM
awesome pictures..
 03/02/2006 01:53:54 PM
great use of blue...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/02/2006 04:39:50 AM
Great picture, ugly frame. 9
 03/01/2006 07:51:24 PM
dude, what's with the frame? neat idea... not quite sure that it looks painted with light, maybe if you had used the image limits for detail instead of frame I could see more detail. wee bit too dark.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2006 02:05:33 PM
Border is a little heavy for the site, it reduces the photo even smaller than the already too small 640 px. The composition and blue tone look good, but I would like to be able to see more detail.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2006 05:00:59 AM
I like big borders...but this is B-I-G!!! I would have like to have seen more of the photo, as it looks interesting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2006 02:16:42 AM
good shot .. but I find the border a little distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2006 12:40:28 AM
well, don't get tired of hearing comments about the frame...I like the shot though. The tracks are cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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