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A Wheel Runs Through It
A Wheel Runs Through It
canon78


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Motion Blur II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-D60
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Date: Jun 23, 2006
Aperture: F19
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Cityscape, Action
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2006

 I would like to say that I timed this shot so the gap between the cars would pass exactly at the ferris wheel. I didn't, but it sure looks cool.
I shot this hand held using TV (shutter priority) + 1/2 stop at 1/20th with my 16mm. I did no retouching in Photoshop, only RAW conversion, levels, and massive shrinking to fit 150k.
By the way, the thing sticking up out of the last car is someone's arm.
This is my first submission. Please be gentle.

Statistics
Place: 118 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.0825
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
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Votes: 194
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Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
 07/07/2006 04:08:08 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

And welcome to world of DPC. You have a good idea here as far as your composition. I believe if you had worked a bit with it in PS you could have had an image that stood out better. Playing with saturation on the different color channels could have brought out the colors in the sky to give you more contrast and pop on the coaster. Playing a bit more with levels or curves could have also brightened the picture up as well. With an amusment park shot my feeling is that the pic needs to be vibrant and alive where this seems a bit flat as is. Any of these steps would easily pass advanced editing rules (and even basic editing). To get the better scores your image needs to stand out - lighting and colors I think are what hurt this most as you fit the challenge easily with this entry. If you cropped this down I might reconsider as having more sky in the shot may also help the tight feel (almost cluttered) look that this has.

As for the shrinking down aspect - there is a great tutorial on how to SAve For Web that will give you the largest and highest quality picture possible to enter. You really want to maximize the dimensions and get your longest side to the 640 mark. A quick search in the forums or how to section will lead you in the right direction.

Overall not a bad first entry (My first three scores were in the mid 4s). Again - welcome to DPC. I look forward to seeing your future work. Have a blast!!!

Tim
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/05/2006 02:06:55 AM
Thanks for your comments. If I could change anything about this shot, it would be the sunlight. There was dense fog coming in and no direct sun, so it came out flat.
And in reply about no people on the coaster, it came by on an angle tipped away from me. You can see someone's arm sticking out of the last car.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 07/02/2006 07:55:41 PM
The composition here is really cluttered.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 07/02/2006 02:39:13 AM
A nicely framed shot. It's a shame the lighting isn't stronger, and that the shutter speed wasn't just a tad faster to allow us to see just a little more detail on the roller-coaster going by. And, of course, having a few people in the roller-coaster...
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 06/28/2006 08:00:15 AM
Nice use of available movement and colour.
Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 06/27/2006 10:51:57 PM
Where are all the screaming passangers? Very interesting idea, and it took me a bit to notice the wheel apearing where the train went through.
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