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!
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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! :)
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