Shot through the window of my car while parked at the side of the road leading to my office. The rain was hammering down and all of the passing traffic was braking before a roundabout. The shot was taken by focusing on the rain drops of the windscreen, having a long exposure time to try and increase the sense of blur but also of the lens effect of the rain drops on the screen.
Post processing:
- shadows & highlights
- levels
- curves
- hue and saturation
- resize
- noise ninja for the smoothing effect
- smart sharpen to bring out the rain drops
- save for web
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My first impression is that there was a lot of smoothing done in post processing so that there is no definition in either the rain drops or the outside scene. I like how rain distorts things but there isn't that part left to this picture. The dashboard could be cropped out without messing up the composition.
I am not really feeling this one. The focus is on the window, which makes it hard to even look at the image. Cropping out the black thing at the bottom (windshield wiper?) would be an improvement though.
Nice colours and tones. The subject (the road/cars) aren't very interesting though. Also, I think this would benefit if you had cropped out the dashboard (?) on the bottom.
I can feel the traffic slowing down! It seems that everyone forgets how to drive when water falls from the sky! You might have even tried to focus this image more on just part of one car and a portion of the road through the wet windshield. Good idea though! 8o)
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