After work, sitting in traffic so long, most of the people in 'line' turned off their vehicles.
I took out my camera and took this photo. I took a few different approaches (including just taking a straight shot out the back on my window.) in the end...this was my favorite.
-converted to JPEG from RAW
-I cloned out the powerlines by the stoplights.
-desaturated....brought back color to rear view mirror
-duplicated the level and overlayed it
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Place: 93 out of 142 Avg (all users): 5.2628 Avg (commenters): 6.4000 Avg (participants): 5.2034 Avg (non-participants): 5.2990 Views since voting: 957 Views during voting: 275 Votes: 156 Comments: 9 Favorites: 1 (view)
Color Saturation and Hue: Nice job of turning the real world monochrome and leaving the relfection in color.
Brightness and Contrast: The brightness and contrast in the monochrome part of this image is a bit better than the colored reflection. The reflected sky is blown out and featureless. The second vehicle in line blends into the sky at the roof.
Focus and depth of field: Excellent!
I'm not sure quite what is going on the parts of the reflection. The supports for the traffic lights, and some of the other horizontal lines, have the "jaggies". Perhaps an effect of the post capture processing.
The traffice does form a good leading line. You've done well here. My eye is pulled to the mirror by the color, and then it instinctively follows the traffic to the back of the line. No competition, no distractions. Very nice work.
So, what hurt your score... Outside of the previously mentioned jaggy lines, I think there were probably a few voters who saw more than one line. I wouldn't count the lights as lines, but some purisits... And, silly as it sounds, you said the light was red when it was green.
I really thought this was good and gave it a seven, great concept, DoF and focus. I am sorry others didn't feel this way but keep it up and do what YOU like it works!!
I didn't notice the selective desat the first time I saw this. It works well to separate the mirror from the background. Sadly, your red light is currently green. Or at least the light behind you is... :)
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