My outtake has a whole freakin' story to go with it. (Apologies to the Team Suck crowd who has already seen this.)
When you're sitting on the steps to your little trailer, gazing across the lovely landscaping that consists of a wooden pallet, endless miles of trucked in from who knows where rocks, and concrete barriers and T-walls, you get a little bored and start looking for things to shoot. Like rocks, piled carefully on the wooden pallet, in front of the concrete T-wall. This is unedited.
You take the unedited version, slap some levels on it and throw a serious curve to it, then sharpen and add a nice border...
You try a couple of actions for entertainment:
To get a different angle of your rocks on your wooden pallet with the concrete T-wall behind, you set your camera on the pallet and hit the shutter, only to discover you've got the center focus thingie on, and the center of your composition is conveniently the dust covered T-wall. The end result is kinda cool, but perhaps only if you happen to be stuck sitting on your porch looking at rocks, then stuck in your trailer with the laptop on the bed as a desk, looking for interesting shots to edit. Also note that the pallet is covered in that same fine dust that appears on the T-wall; that dust is now all over the bottom of your camera.
You spend all night trying to get stupid pictures of freakin' rocks to upload, patiently typing in stuff that few will read (but you hope a few will appreciate), then you hit "Post" before you finish....
Anyway, one more. The silhoutte I undoubtedly should have entered in the silhouette challenge. The same rocks, only from a low perspective requiring the photographer (yours truly) to get covered with the lovely fine dust on top of the wooden pallet on which rests the wooden box (seen in the Motivational Poster entry from the above noted photographer) on which rest the rocks. Levels, then curves set to cross process a bit.
And if you think that spending all night trying to get stupid pictures of freakin' rocks to upload, patiently typing in stuff that few will read (but you hope a few will appreciate), and shooting and editing pictures of three rocks to begin with are signs that I'm losing my marbles (notice that I am not loosing my marbles, by the way), well, let's just say that these are trying times and I'm trying.... :-)
While your outtake is lovely, Danny, your entry was wonderful. Congrats on the new personal best and a very good score, too.
Ty for the compliment :) I am very happy with the result... comments were great and even got a favorite out of it. First challenge that i was glued to that darn update button lol. Hopefully won't be the last ;)
Karen, screw the score - I much prefer your entry to your outtakes. (Not that there's anything wrong with your outtakes - I just really liked your entry!)
Outtakes:
I didn't like the power line in this one, it detracted from the mood.
I thought this was really cool - and wished I had found it for the Power challenge (it just screams "power" to me), but the smaller pole is very blurry, and one friend labelled it "scary."
Hey, you should paste those links under the INSERT IMAGE tag thingymajig. Third icon along above the comment box, that way yours pics will show up here ;)
