Hokie, I *do* like your work quite a bit... As I look back through your submissions, I can see quite clearly that yours have been some of my highest rated shots in the past... This particular photo sent me spinning though :)
Ever drive along th highway and see that heat blur rising off the pavement? As a kid we called that the Asphale Mirage and thus my name :-)
When I think of mirages I think desert/camels etc. so..I found a cool shot of a camel and a stock desert scene with a road in it and put them in photoshop and made a composite image. I knew in advance I needed a genreic blu sky so I leveld the composite to give me a dsert with a blue sky.
Then I took my compostie image and placed it in front of a mirror board that has texture to it so I got a mirror image that was slightly distorted. I then took that image into photoshop, gave it a slight water blur and printed onto photo card stock.
The idea of tearing the top of the art came to me on the drive to the location to shoot. I saw the clouds overhead and wanted to blend the photo into the real clouds. I tried to get some nice white edging to show on the card stock to give a cloud edge effect.
After gettng to my location ( a nice quite school parking lot ) I arranged my elements. The knife is an artist tool for cutting in straight lines to paintings. I figured some of the voters might not have painting experience and not know why I used a knife. Also the refldctive surface of the knife caught the clouds too!
I actually used more paint than I wanted and I didn't get to really blend the paint into the road stripe of the photo as well as I wanted. Trying to do a studio style shot in the middle of a real road surface was a challenge in itself!
I can imagine the looks I got of me laying in the middle of the road wating for the clouds to move overhead into just the right postion. :-)
I like the feeling of this photo! Especially the hot steam that makes the background blur. Was the road really that hot? Or did you add some effect afterwards? (9)
I f*ing love this photo!! The more I look at it, the more I like it. My only knock is that the blue on the camel picture seems kinda noisy. I think by easing off on the compression, and letting the file size slip up to 150k, you could have produces a cleaner image. Otherwise very very creative, excellent work!
Interesting. Took me a minute to figure this out. What I'm getting is a printed out photo, ripped at the top, put on a real road, with real sky behind it. With while paint and a putty knife suggesting that the road in the picture extends out into the real road. Neat idea. I wonder if a paint brush would have been more effective in conveying that you're painting that line though.
I think this to be perhaps the most original shot for this challenge. Nicely executed, interesting, and unique plus it has good color, saturation, composition, contrast, focus, and lighting. Very good indeed!
You've got my attention, is that realy how they make the white line down the middle of the road? And all this time I thought it came out of a machine. This is one of my top ten on creativity alone.
This is another interesting photograph in a 'conceptual' sort of way, but I am completely lost as to how it applies to the 'on the road' challenge. I suppose that in some abstract way, the fact that this goo is located on the pavement does qualify it for meeting the challenge. I will give it a high score for creativity and a lower score for interpretation of the challenge since I don't understand that interpretation... I *do* like the artwork background trick :)
Cheater! :-) I don't entirely get the oil paint and spatula in terms of the photo as a whole, but I like it anyway. I wish there was some way to make the change from road to print/painting/whatever a little less distinct -- kind of like you did with the rip along the top (I didn't recognize that those were real clouds and not part of the print for quite some time). But even with the obvious division between the two, I like the way this works. Well done.
Totally cool shot. Love the idea and execution of it. I haven't finished voting yet, but I suspect this one will be in my top 10. One nitpicky complaint - the horizon isn't level!
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