My office faces a large electical power plant. I found this pattern of dust on a window down the hall from my office as the sun set. Surely a pigeon flew with some force into the window in order for this amazing dust pattern to be formed. There is an industrial powerplant beyond the glass but in focus it would have robbed the images impact I feel. I used slight amount of smart sharpening, channel mixer, and levels to make this black and white image. I shot with a Nikon D70 with a 80-200 zoom at 200mm F2.8 at 1/1000 of a second because I had no tripod handy and I feared the coming rain might wash it away.
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I applaud you on taking the challenge topic outside of the box! This is quite an interesting image.. The dust adds such an interesting effect, almost as if the photo has been aged or mistreated. If I hadn't read your comments, I would have thought the effect was added in Photoshop or something. I agree with you that putting the powerplant in the image would have really lessened the impact (no pun intended). I obviously don't know what this would have looked like in color, but I like it in black and white, and I think that was a good choice on your part.
One thing that I notice is that there seems to be a lack of deliberate composition.. The bird is not quite center, but not far enough off center to be considered rule of thirds. I think that if it were me, I would have put the bird directly int he center of the photo and zoomed in a bit more, as the dust pattern of the tip of the bird's wing (in the upper left corner) is a bit distracting. I think making the bird larger would give it more of a dramatic, intense feel.
I like this photo as a sort of artsy shot, but I don't think it fits in well with the typical DPC challenge winner, if you know what I mean. I think this might do well in a gallery, or on a website, where it might fit in more with its surroundings, but in this particular environment, I can see why an otherwise good photo did not do exceedingly well.
Hah! Saw the image before the title, thought this was going to be Pigeon Forge.
What a powerful image, I'm not even sure I understand it. Either a 1 or a 10...
10 for now
Awwww! I've seen this before on a window that is a walkway from a parking garage to a hospital...........amazing how the poor fella's details are so vivd on the glass as his body lieaves the imprint.
Wow!!!!!!!! What a shot, how did to chance on this one. I love to know so please inform us on how you happen to be in the right place at the right time. Unbeleaveable shot. Fantastic
Great, took me a while to work out, but then couldn't help imagining someone wrestling with a pigeon against a car bonnet.!
but it obviously a poor misguided bird but a very lucky photographer to spot the opportunity
well done!
OK, This is one for the "How'd they do that?" section. Is this actually a photo of a pigeon hitting a window? If so, I'm amazed that not only were you able to do that, but that the image is aesthetically interesting as well. It's even fits in the challenge.
Holy crap. beautiful. stunning. this is what photography and art is all about and why I even bother looking through challenges to find a gem like this. 10 and favorite.
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