Challenge: Match (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f2.8D
Location: home
Date: Jan 14, 2007
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1.5 sec
Galleries: Macro, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2007
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I have no idea how this one will do, but I'm sure nobody else will be fool enough to try the same thing. I blatantly ignored scalvert's excellent advice to not use toys in a challenge, but I don't think this is what he had in mind. I contemplated entering this in the motion panning challenge, but it is really background panning, not motion panning.
This is a 1 1/2 second exposure, lit with a 60 watt bulb, and everything is moving except the car bodies and the camera.
The background is a small part of a six shot panorama I made of a street near my house and autostitched together. It is printed, mounted on a piece of foam core, and sitting on a music stand. The hardest part of this was doing the math to figure out how big to print. Luckily, part of the panorama has cars in it, so I could compare the toy cars to the cars in the picture.
The foreground is a piece of black foam core. This didn't look very good, so I cropped out as much as possible. During the exposure, the camera was on a tripod, and I was standing to the side, moving both the background and foreground.
The cars are matchbox cars (Hot Wheels, actually) each mounted on top of a domino left over from the pattern challenge, using earthquake putty. The blue putty showed up in the pic, so I had to paint the putty black with a magic marker.
The wheels of the cars have black thread taped to them, wrapped around several times. During the exposure, a friend pulled the threads to spin the wheels.
Very little post processing. Convert from raw, levels, saturation, crop, image size, neatimage, sharpen. |
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