Large American flag outside of a car dealership; I was driving by on a windy day and thought it was a good idea to photograph the movement of the flag...decided to remove all background and just show the material of the flag in motion...levels, curves, dodge some of blue area, usm, crop.
Post Challenge: Since the wind was blowing the flag from right to left, I didn't think about flipping the image because it looked fine to me but I sure had a lot of comments about orientation...guess flag protocol isn't one of my strong points..did I say that I love carrying around that little Casio camera, plus it's metal and has had some hard impacts but keeps on running.
Statistics
Place: 38 out of 159 Avg (all users): 5.9053 Avg (commenters): 7.0741 Avg (participants): 5.6154 Avg (non-participants): 6.0789 Views since voting: 789 Views during voting: 351 Votes: 243 Comments: 29 Favorites: 1 (view)
This is a nice photo. The focus is sharp, the colors are brilliant. It meets the challenge appropriately. There were a lot of flags submitted in this challenge, thus this photo lacks originality. 6
It's interesting that you display the union in the upper right, instead of the left - isn't that sign of distress or something? You've captured nice detail in the folds.
I like it, bold and showing wind. But something in me, perhaps the American, is a bit unsettled by the orientation. (I think I'd like it more with mirror-image or flip processing.)
Of all the flag shots this is by far the strongest. Sharp focused image with great lines, curves and shadows. I love that it fills the page. That makes it seem all the more powerful and huge. I hope this does well for you. Bumping up to an 8 for now.
Lots of flags this challenge! I like how this flag is the complete image as I really do not care about the flag pole in the others. Colors are vibrant and sharp. Good luck!
I knew there would be lots of flags in this challenge and for the most part they are unremarkable. This one is pretty good. I have to ask though, why wouldn't you do a quick flip to get the proper orientation for the flag?
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
