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Melethia


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Challenge: Spinning (Basic Editing)
Collection: Challenges 2007
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
Date: Mar 24, 2007
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.6 sec
Galleries: Blur
Date Uploaded: Mar 25, 2007

 You don't know how hard it was to get an entire mall to spin.

Brand new mall just opened in Wiesbaden next to the train station. Malls are not a common thing in Germany. So lots of folks were out checking out the place on Saturday. Set a sorta focal point, then as I clicked the shutter I rotated the camera. Much easier than rotating the mall, I might add.

In light of the basic editing allowance to clone out dust spots, I did indeed clone out a dust cow. (Way larger than a dust bunny.) I noticed it on a lot of these shots since I was shooting at a much smaller than normal aperture. Also did curves, contrast, hue/sat, crop, sharpen, resize, convert to sRGB profile, border, save for web. Darn near wore me out, too.


Statistics
Place: 100 out of 156
Avg (all users): 5.0995
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0727
Avg (non-participants): 5.1084
Views since voting: 1053
Views during voting: 346
Votes: 221
Comments: 28
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/08/2010 09:11:08 PM
How did you not fall over?
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 04/09/2008 03:44:46 AM
Well, I like it!
Sorry I didn't vote on that one.
but if I had this image wouldn't be in this thread.
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 04/06/2007 11:51:42 AM
Very interesting shot. Definitely shows spinning well. I think this would be a great abstract shot.
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 04/06/2007 12:43:01 AM
A wonderful sublime photo. I love it, just enough detail to see what is going on and just enough blur to stir a ton of emotion. Terrific how the one person is in the motion of looking back. I love the colors a ton. Really, a superb photo.
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 04/05/2007 09:02:24 AM
Your blur shots are awesome. Why this scored so low is beyond me, but you should see my Free Study score. ROFL
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 04/05/2007 07:57:24 AM
a good shot but i can see why it did not vote well, i was in the same mind set until i got what DPC voters were after, There is tow ways to go, Take a picture that will be DPC friendly for that i went to past challenges and studied for about two weeks.
Take shots you alone are happy with and stuff the score. As i am in the WPL5 league my shots on here will be friendly, anything else is for me alone.

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 04/04/2007 03:13:17 PM
Ah, mall madness, captured...Love it!
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 04/04/2007 01:51:44 PM
What a cool technique! Man. With the shutter only open .6 of a second, you must have been spinning that succer at break-neck speed. I'm impressed, and think this turned out very well!

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 04/04/2007 09:17:47 AM
I like this one Melethia. It has so much motion! Makes me spin just looking at it!
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 04/04/2007 08:26:40 AM
This could have been in the fitness challenge-new sport of mall spinning. I feel a photo series in the making-god only knows how many malls there are in PA and NJ.
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 04/04/2007 07:52:33 AM
Originally posted by yanko:
How does this get that many 1s, 2s and 3s? Spinning too much?

i agree with yanko, way underrated. i personally loved this chaotic look, such a cool capture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/04/2007 05:42:35 AM
How does this get that many 1s, 2s and 3s? Spinning too much?
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 04/04/2007 03:24:17 AM
For what it's worth Melethia:
I still believe this was the best picture in the challenge and I'll never understand how it didn't at least make top-10.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/04/2007 02:39:49 AM
Melethia, I didn't vote in this challenge. Just saw the picture now.

I like it verry much but it's defenitly not a DPC friendly.

The only suggestion I have is to remove the white triangle in the left bottom corner. It’s the only still element in the picture and attracts the attention. Maybe a square crop?

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/04/2007 01:57:33 AM
Positives:
Colors vibrant. Very smooth motion and flow conveyed in the image.

Technicals:
Harder to evaluate with this image because of the large amount of motion. Sounds wierd to say but the motion smoothness looks very good technically. There is very little, though that is in focus so hard to evaluate that part.

The Challenge:
It is definitely spinning and certainly meets the challenge. However, images that have mostly blur in them without a central focal point that is in sharp focus typically do not do well at DPC. Lacking this probably hurt this image in voting more than anything else. In a motion image viewers often need something sharply focused to grab onto visually. Yours is more abstract than anything else. Also, the title suggests a mall but it is not apparent in the composition. DPCers might have felt your title was concocted strictly for voting.

Suggestions:
This image is probably about as good as it can be. There are a lot of nice things about it, including that it captures spinning very, very well. But next time take and select a spinning image that has a sharply focused central component to better command viewer attention.
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 04/04/2007 12:17:48 AM
Another very nice motion blur shot from you, Deb.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/03/2007 01:47:56 PM
I like this for the abstract nature but I think for me, even less detail in the centre would have improved it - good luck
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 04/02/2007 11:34:07 AM
I'll tell you this much. You'd score higher if the voters could tell what the photograph is. It looks like you have a nice clear shot. A little too much spin, perhaps. It looks like it would've turned out nicely otherwise.
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 04/01/2007 07:54:42 PM
love this psychadelic effect, and the motion going in different directions. 10
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 03/31/2007 01:04:58 PM
i love the chaotic look in this.
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 03/30/2007 09:24:29 PM
um .. okay?
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 03/30/2007 08:49:13 PM
This is exactly how it feels when shopping at any Mall.....very creative. Love this image. 10!
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 03/30/2007 11:32:20 AM
This picture is to blurry. I can't tell what or where it is.
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 03/29/2007 11:51:33 PM
good perspective
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 03/29/2007 12:21:05 PM
Like it a lot - 8 for now
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 03/28/2007 10:05:49 PM
woah! funky!

I'd like to see a bit more detail in the photo, but that being said I love the concept, very creative and artsy!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 11:28:23 AM
This is very cool. You must have hung it from its strap and used the timer? You've achieved a very convincing composition - strong in color, design and content.
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 03/28/2007 09:50:46 AM
I like the double meaning here. Nice colors and composition.
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