Challenge:Rain (Advanced Editing IV) Camera:Nikon D70 Location: My House Date: Aug 13, 2005 Aperture: f/5 ISO: 800 Shutter: 1/60 Date Uploaded: Aug 13, 2005
I know I know it's not raining anymore...heh oh well.
Anyway, the storm started around 6:00 so I headed out to take some shots of it...I got a couple good ones. Upon returning home, a line was down in my driveway and sparking...the fire department came and taped everything off.
I realize I didn't capture the actual 'nature' of the danger -- it's more a scene that shows there is some sort of unknown danger or destruction from the passing storm, behind the yellow tape. It's meant to be a bit dark and 'questionable' if you will.
I feel the composition is strong and interesting...the thumbnail generates interest in itself. People seem to like selective desats a lot as they are rather eye-catching when used in the correct manner...we'll see how this one does.
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okay.......so there isn't any visible rain, so that might hurt your score a tad...
but other than that; really cool selective desat, great tones, contrast and an all around cool edit.
good luck :-)
Wonderfully intense shot, though obviously you're going to feel the weight of the voters as regards rain :-) I can see that the de-sat trick really adds impact to the yellow band of the 'line' - but was it necessary to go that far with it? Whilst I like the tonality enormously, and the composition, and the whole image, that element of it rather feels like being hit over the head and told what to look at - as though you don't quite trust your audience to find things for themselves in your work. There's also a sense of heavy-handedness with the dodge and burn tools, which really is becoming a recurrent dpc disease again, and, for me, lacks subtlety. Just a couple of dislikes in a great image, though.
Whoever you are, you know how to freakin' work the lines, baby! Nice work...such a simple and easily overlooked scene made genious with some great camerawork, placing the lines and lighting perfectly! 9
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