Camera set to 8 seconds with lens zoomed out to maximum.
After 4ish seconds gently zoomed back in.
Post Process in CS2...
Converted from RAW,
Custom White Balance setting
Tint +10
Temperature +40
Calibration
Shadow Tint +40
Red Hue +2
Red Saturation +44
Green hue and Sat = 0
Blue Hue +6
Blue Saturation + 52
Converted to CS2
Spot Healing Brush to remove various spots
Create new layer for Sky- Neat Image
Smart Sharpened background New Adjustment layer – Colour balance to reduce Selective colour adjustment on magenta channel
New adjustment layer – Brightness/Contrast
Sized for DPC
Slight USM
Added border
IMG_2989.CR2
Statistics
Place: 25 out of 177 Avg (all users): 6.1340 Avg (commenters): 8.0588 Avg (participants): 5.9231 Avg (non-participants): 6.2759 Views since voting: 1708 Views during voting: 443 Votes: 194 Comments: 25 Favorites: 1 (view)
Camera Work/Technical: These are always very difficult for me to critique, especially from a technical standpoint. The blur is a bit distracting to me, and it is difficult to find an area of crisp focus.
Lighting: Very nice lighting. This is the main strength of this image. You captured great coloring in every part of this image.
Composition/Content: I think that the tall parts of the skyline are a bit too centered for this type of capture.
My Opinion: While this is a very nice zoom blur, it really isn't what I think of when I hear motion blur. Still, I think that it met the challenge, and the voters liked it enough to place it in the top 25.
Gosh! I expected this to be on the front page -- winner's circle!!! Not a bad score at all. . .but not nearly what it deserves. This photo is GORGEOUS!!! It's one of my favorites of all time!
Sandy
Thanks for the support, I am a little dissapointed, but Im sure I will get back on that horse again...
Gosh! I expected this to be on the front page -- winner's circle!!! Not a bad score at all. . .but not nearly what it deserves. This photo is GORGEOUS!!! It's one of my favorites of all time!
It would have been more interesting in the blur were offset, more directional.
my appologies for previous comments - I misunderstood how this was achieved.
lovely shot! the zoom blur effect is very, er, effective here; and not done excessively so either. the mix of bright colours is very pleasing, though one wonders how it would look with the contrast and brightness cranked up a little bit to make it feel a bit more neon like... still, excellently dramatic cityscape. 9.
Spectacular Zoom! awesome light, Great color. I like it. too bad there's that one stray white reflection.(lower center) Since this is advanced editing I might have tried to clone that out. Good job!
This is stunning! My favorite in this challenge. I would love to see this with a blue ribbon. In the meantime, it's going straight to my favorites folder :) 10
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