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Your Soulmate Awaits At Your Local Yamaha Dealer
Your Soulmate Awaits At Your Local Yamaha Dealer
aaronb532


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Challenge: Advertisement Revisited (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Kayak Point
Date: Jul 5, 2004
Aperture: F/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2004

 "Your Soulmate Awaits At Your Local Yamaha Dealer"

I'll leave it up to you to decide whether it's the girl or the bike. ;)

This was a fun shoot to do! It was kinda difficult to get the bike down on the beach. It is Heavy! Over 800 lbs.
The biggest problem was getting the light right. I wanted to get the sky AND the bike exposed properly. I tried lots of different angles. Some worked better for light, some were better for composure but this was the best compromise. If I had some large reflectors it would have made things a lot simpler! Anyway, Photoshop made it easier to get the look I wanted.

Post Processing:
Levels
Shadow/Highlights
Levels again
Contrast
Crop/Resize
Save for Web 86%

Taken with a Tokina 24-200 AT-X

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 218
Avg (all users): 5.8209
Avg (commenters): 7.1667
Avg (participants): 5.6762
Avg (non-participants): 5.9005
Views since voting: 1164
Views during voting: 384
Votes: 296
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/12/2004 05:27:50 AM
I'm a sucker for a bike shot... :-). Th eone niggle I have iwth this is the focus on the bike seems a little soft, and the big lump of grass sticking up in front of the front tyre. In a 'real' bike add the helment also probably wouldn't be on the handlebar, but that's being really picky. Nice machine, well taken... (I also own a yamaha..)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/11/2004 03:55:12 PM
Nice. I somehow feel I should be able to read Yamha somehwere on the bike but I don't look at car/motorcycle magazines so perhaps not.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/11/2004 12:59:18 AM
great all around shot but horizion is a bit off...7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/10/2004 03:15:09 PM
Where's the oink?
 07/09/2004 03:54:19 AM
Great capture
10
Good luck
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/09/2004 12:12:49 AM
If I were you, I wouldn't make her wait long.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/08/2004 08:01:35 PM
Sold! you got me here, Nice photo and has meaning.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/08/2004 01:39:35 PM
Fantastic shot. Would only make the models back face the camera.
Great shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2004 11:06:52 PM
i like the shot, i think it could have been cropped better. Bottom right is distracting. You have a beautiful tonal range in the bike itself. Its a shame that the sky and far off land are so washed out. Maybe a UV Haze filter??? Still its a 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2004 10:55:32 PM
straight out of a brochure. you caught some great light and settings coming together here. the bike and woman sitting stand out nicely since the background haze and grass are both dull in color. the line of the wood in the bottom left reflects the angle of the bike nicely as well. Great ad-based shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2004 03:53:50 AM
great pic
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2004 03:23:53 AM
This could've been more effective with a closer crop. Great idea, nice scenery.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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