I have done this before ... see " Abandoned or is it" as well as "A Restless Sleep" and "Their Dream Home".
These shots are always fun to do. My model (my daughter I am putting her through University so she owes me :) ) stands in front of the camera for about 5 seconds and then jumps out of the shot. It is dark so the camera is open for about 30 seconds total. The result is a ghost like image that appears to be vanishing. So in fact I have 2 vanishing points. The converging railroad tracks and my subject.
I like the shot ... hope it does well
Coley
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Hello from the Critique club, my name is Jon Rowe, and i will be looking at your image this evening :)
Composition/Lighting : this is a great example of when a centrally composed subject works. very spooky. i think this is very well done. i believe the reason for the 5s is two-fold. i gave it a 7 for i loved it, but thinking on behalf of the rest of the DPC crowd, the lighting left a lack of detail in the fore/background and in the subject itself. also, i think the placement of the model makes this look too staged. the actual "vanishing" of the subject and of the railroad tracks seem to possibly leave the model missplaced in my opinion. if she was placed further back down the tracks, with the look of walking towards the camera/viewer, i believe this might show off the end of the tracks (vanishing point #1) and the model (vanishing point #2). i do like what you did here, and think it deserved a higher score, but if i had to nit-pick, that would be my opinion.
Challenge : this definitely meets the challenge. i like the look of the tracks, and the seeing through the subject to see the back vanishing point. very clever, and unfortunately i believe a number of those 5s didn't take the chance to notice that the girl was not the only thing vanishing in this fine poetic image.
Conclusion : very well done, i love your work. i have admired quite a few of your shots for some time now and find it a privilege to critique one of your entries. keep up the good work. great image here, and not that bad of a placement at all. even got a few favorites out of it, that always helps :D
I think that the fact that people couldn't figure how you could accomplish this in Basic hurt you on the scoring. Should have placed higher (got on 8 from me). Very well executed and great take on the challenge.
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