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Some Things Are Worse Than Traffic
Some Things Are Worse Than Traffic
Jesuispeure


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Home "studio"
Date: Jun 9, 2004
ISO: 100
Galleries: Humorous, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2004

A little fun from the 100 yen store!

The poster feel was created this way:

1) Over-exposed the image in camera by 1 stop.
2) Desaturated the pic in photoshop
3) Using levels the contrast was increased greatly
4) The original picture selected for the history brush, then went over the entire image with the brush set on "color".
5) Burning down the highlights on the red car and dodging some of the shadows.
6) Increasing the saturation

I also used a little radial blur to give it some movement. It helped the aligator? crocodile? look like he was really going for the car, instead of me stuffing a toy into a rubber monster's maw.

Statistics
Place: 131 out of 159
Avg (all users): 4.6023
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.3579
Avg (non-participants): 4.9079
Views since voting: 930
Votes: 171
Comments: 12
Favorites: 2 (view)


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AuthorThread
06/27/2004 01:08:36 AM
Greetings from the Critque Club!

Composition:
The red car was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, when this giant reptile gets hungry and goes for the goods. Very nice. Very original for this challenge. I can't think of anything I'd change in the composition.

Lighting:
The lighting is good for this shot, but like you said it is over exposed. For instance the mercedes left headlight (left in the picture) is completely washed out. As is the alligator's top teeth. It looks like you used flash or some other form of directional light, making the light very bright up front, and darker in the back. I'd like to see it uniformly lit, or perhaps just not so harsh of lighting.

Technical:
Photo is in focus, I like the contrast you did to it. The photo looks grainy for some reason (in the shadows). You used 100 ISO so I'm really not sure what that is from, unless it was the desaturate - resaturate process. I'd really like to see this without the in camera over-exposure, using photoshop more to get the 'poster feel' you are going for. I think this would help bring out the detail, and still allow for the poster look.

Post-processing:
Love what you did with it. The poster feel, the radial blur, and especially the bold contrast. All of it combines very well for the finished look.

Overall:
I like this photo a lot. The humor naturally. But the look and feel seems to work great for this photo. My only recommendation would be the 'normal' exposure doing the adjustment in photoshop instead, to bring out the lost detail is my reason. That and the washed out parts are just too bright, and result in distractions.

Hmmm, what about a little blacktop and dotted line? :D Keep up the creative shots!
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06/21/2004 02:48:32 PM
strange that this scored so low
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2004 08:12:37 PM
Cute.
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06/19/2004 11:51:10 AM
Creative. The high saturation and contrast enhances the message, but a bit overexposed and I find the white areas distracting.
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06/19/2004 06:39:09 AM
The color saturation, overexposed excitement, adn motion blur of the surounding cars all make this an excellent shot for me! I'm voting it amongst my highest for the week. Top 20.
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06/18/2004 03:02:16 PM
Lol, nice challenge interpretation.
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06/18/2004 10:07:58 AM
Great humor and energy.
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06/16/2004 07:53:40 PM
cute!!!
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06/16/2004 03:53:56 AM
I like the sense of humour in this one. Colours are fine and the lighting works. 7
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06/15/2004 04:11:08 PM
7 for the humour
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06/14/2004 09:19:43 PM
lol, godzilla?
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06/14/2004 02:21:40 PM
Funny !
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