This photograph is something I have been considering for several months. The subject is a 'folk art' weathervane that is on the lawn of our local art museum. It is fabricated from materials found along roadsides. It's quite colorful and everything on it moves when the wind blows. I had been looking for ideas and compositions to photograph this 'thing' but never really came up with anything good. I could also never get to it when there was enough wind to make it move. On Wednesday when I got off work it was very windy and had been for most of the day. I decided to ride by the museum and take a look on my way home. As usual, my composition became a 'portion' of the whole. I wasn't really thinking about the challenge when I shot this, but I really like the image and it does fit, in my opinion. It's a bit outside my norm as well. I love the color and motion in this image :)
EXIF:
File: IMG_2825.CR2
File size: 7,004KB
Image Serial Number: 528-2825
Camera Model: Canon EOS 20D
Camera serial number: 0420100366
Firmware: Firmware 2.0.0
Owner: John M. Setzler, Jr.
Date/Time: 2006:01:25 15:53:04
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 16
Exposure mode: Av
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous: frame 1
ISO: 100
Lens: 70 to 200mm
Focal length: 110mm
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 3504 x 2336
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Auto
Color space: sRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Contrast: Normal
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 2: Long exposure noise reduction: On
CFn 8: ISO expansion: On
Post Processing:
Levels, Unsharp Mask, and resized for the challenge entry.
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Place: 105 out of 357 Avg (all users): 5.7700 Avg (commenters): 7.5000 Avg (participants): 5.6250 Avg (non-participants): 6.0278 Views since voting: 940 Views during voting: 260 Votes: 200 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
Wow! What a nice composition. How can a technically superior image like this that obviously meets the challenge in such a unique way get only a 5.77? I will never cease to be amazed by DPC voters.
Wildly eccentric image, LOL. Nice how the star, which is LESS colorful, becomes the "subject" by virtue of its stillness. Very interesting take on the challenge.
A nice capture, the picture has a good festive taste to it, lots of colours, a very nicely captured motion. Compositionally it doesn't work too well for me: if not for the title, I would not have guessed that the emphasis was on the star.
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