I wanted to take a photo of something creative and while I was thinking I watched my brothers race a toy HOT WHEELS truck and a 2 inch ball that lights up around the living room carpet.The ball won of course but I didn't care.The ball and truck had given me an idea!
This is what I did:
1.I vaccuumed a blue carpet(and the rest of the house as well)
2.I grabbed a side of the carpet,lifted it up and propped a suitcase there to keep it up.
3.I placed a truck on the carpet and put my camera in front of it. I prefocused my camera and bounced the ball to make it light up.
4.I pressed the shutter the rest of the way as I rolled the ball through the scene.
on the computer I did:
Convert from RAW
Clone out hair/dust/dirt
Curves
Levels
Resize
USM
Statistics
Place: 171 out of 177 Avg (all users): 4.2316 Avg (commenters): 4.1667 Avg (participants): 4.0667 Avg (non-participants): 4.3391 Views since voting: 1141 Views during voting: 314 Votes: 190 Comments: 8 Favorites: 1 (view)
Camera Work/Technical: I do agree with Rebecca that the highlights are a bit blown. However, I do like the movement that you created with the background. I think that this was a very creative idea.
Lighting: Just a touch too harsh. If this had been toned down just a little, I think that the voters would have been more fond of it.
Composition/Content: I also think that your composition needed some work. While I am no stickler for the 'rules of photography,' I think that the centering did not work very well for this one.
My Opinion: You absolutely met the challenge, and did so in a very creative manner. I just don't think that it was what the majority of the voters had in mind for the challenge. Even still, I like it, and with some minor lighting and composition changes, I think that it would have pulled a better score.
I'm missing the motion here... It looks like the lights behind the truck are being moved... And that's certainly motion blur -- but it doesn't impart any sense of motion in the subject. I think I would better like a shot similar to this where the truck was actually rolling (the wheels would blur) past a blurred background that was caused by the movement of the truck. Perhaps it's just a difference in "artistic preference" though.
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