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Spirit of Ecstasty
Spirit of Ecstasty
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Challenge: Chrome (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
Location: Riffa, Bahrain
Date: Apr 10, 2006
Aperture: f7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Transportation
Date Uploaded: Apr 11, 2006

 I'd taken a few shots for Candid which I wasn't really happy with, so was delighted to come across a rather beaten up Rolls Royce Silver Shadow on my wanderings around a local village. The children of the owner were extremely bemused at my interest in photographing the car, which was parked amongst a selection of battered Nissan pick up trucks. Sadly it was around midday, so the light was difficult to say the least for capturing chrome. I wish I didn't have the blown out areas on the wings of the Flying Lady, but in Basic Editing there is nothing much I can do about it.

Very little post processing. Rotated the image slightly to straighten the radiator bars and cropped accordingly. Resized and added 1 px stroke border.

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Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Z
 04/18/2006 12:16:36 PM
nice
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Fujifilm FinePix S3100
 04/17/2006 09:04:26 PM
try a different angle
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 04/13/2006 07:16:55 AM
is this yours?? :O)
Olympus E-510
Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
 04/13/2006 05:39:37 AM
Personally, I'd have rotated the image to make the grill even on the bottom, and just maybe have taken the photo horizontal to give your guy some space to fly into. Overall, it's not bad, though.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 04/12/2006 03:13:01 PM
Nice angle. Clearer, more DOF, tighter crop out of right side with more hood-line on left might be better.
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 04/12/2006 12:21:25 PM
Ok, but feels like something of a snapshot to me. What I mean is that it's a very literal representation of this object, which of itself isn't extremely compelling in this case. If you were to take control of the image and add some artistic elements, such as using shallow depth of field to emphasize the hood ornament, or using an unusual camera angle, the image could gain more interest.
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