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I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
DrAchoo


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Long Exposure II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Vancouver, WA
Date: Nov 2, 2006
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 2
Galleries: Action
Date Uploaded: Nov 2, 2006

 You know how they award a difficulty multiplier in diving so a triple flip with two twists is worth more than a back flip? I think we should go for something like that on DPC...

At night...in the incessant rain...$4000 of camera equipment taped to the hood of my car...in my own cul-de-sac with the teenage neighbors looking on.

Step 1: Come up with the idea. The LSD helped with that.
Step 2: Design cradle for the camera out of toy foam blocks. One of them was an arch and perfectly fit the barrel of the lens.
Step 3: Waterproof camera with ziplock bag. (remember the rain?)
Step 4: Tape camera to hood of car. I mean it! You can't use enough. The only way I was doing this was because I have a special insurance rider (no joke) on my equipment which basically allows me to throw it off a cliff. This may have been pushing it though. I could imagine the phone call.
Step 5: Design a little "tunnel" out of christmas lights by stringing them between two homemade poles which were on top of garbage cans so the car could pass under.
Step 6: Work out all the exposure, flash, and other problems. (still in the rain...)
Step 7: Knock pole over. Break one string of lights.
Step 7a: Get shocked.
Step 7b: Replace broken string of lights amid curses.
Step 8: Have many shots ruined because the intermittent wipers always know when they are right in front of my face.
Step 9: Snap picture. Flash goes, freezing me. Then I step on it and move through the tunnel while the camera captures the trails of lights.
Step 10: Repeat 5 times. It was all I could do. I also had to wipe the lens between each shot.
Step 11: Process. Pretty basic stuff. No real tricks other than a Screen layer to brighten the lights.
Step 12: Sit back and know it was a job well done.

This better score 6.5 or there will be some 'splainin' to do!

Statistics
Place: 74 out of 239
Avg (all users): 5.8494
Avg (commenters): 8.1250
Avg (participants): 5.7037
Avg (non-participants): 5.9882
Views since voting: 1440
Views during voting: 459
Votes: 166
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 11/14/2006 03:06:47 AM
You really didn't get your reward for all that effort.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/14/2006 12:28:08 AM
LOL. Wouldn't it have been easier to just use a monitor as the background and shrink yourself so it can fit into a hot wheels car? :P

That is some setup so I guess the voters now have some 'splainin' to do.

P.S. Maybe have your daughter drive and you control the pedals? I bet that would have been worth a full point more!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2006 10:51:23 PM
I LOVE it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2006 01:14:32 PM
The things people will do to get shots for DPC challenges are just plain amazing!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2006 05:50:11 AM
Oh! Only 5.84!! It's a shame voters didn't appreciate your shot: often people only look 1 sec at shots and don't think about their creation process. Love your story about the shooting. When I saw your shot during voting I couldn't image that someone was so crazy to tape his camera onto the hood - now I know you really did. Great! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/13/2006 02:07:52 AM
OK, just about died laughing at your comments, and still think you must be the kewlest immunologist in Washington :)

Totally Ripped oFf! at least 6.4795 in my books!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/10/2006 11:13:55 PM
That's either DrAchoo or buckaroo Bonzai. I'd know those ears anywhere. If it's DrAchoo I'll give it a 10. Otherwise, I'll start it at 8. bump to 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2006 03:53:09 PM
fantastic shot good definition and colour good composition
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/08/2006 02:03:24 PM
Where on earth were you driving so fast, it looks like a circus with all the different coloured lights ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/07/2006 05:42:42 PM
wow...you were game with your camera...an amazing image 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2006 04:53:46 PM
take my license...nice work!a 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2006 01:43:12 PM
Reminds me of Max Headroom.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2006 06:53:12 AM
I would like to know how you did this! Cool shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2006 12:35:43 AM
Now I'll be singing that song in my head all night!! cool photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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