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The Roads of Mars
The Roads of Mars
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Challenge: Speed II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: NY
Date: Aug 24, 2007
Galleries: Urban, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Aug 24, 2007

The only street lamp that was lit was a small fire alarm light on a telephone pole. The lamp looked detached from the pole here so I figured it would play the role of our sun in the distant Mars sky which always appears reddish in NASA'S images.

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Place: 34 out of 204
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12/03/2007 08:35:10 PM
Man that is some cool play with light temperatures, underrated in one sense as I would have score it high, but kudos for doing so well with such an abstract image.
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09/05/2007 01:04:28 AM
I was one of your 10s... way underrated imo
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/04/2007 10:48:25 PM
very sci-fi image! like it
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09/03/2007 10:03:52 PM
Well done. The sky colors are great and the lights of the vehicles!
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08/31/2007 01:06:26 PM
Wicked color in this long exposure...cool looking photo!
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08/31/2007 08:33:48 AM
Of this genre, yours is the best in the challenge by far. I like the colours and the implied speed. 8.
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08/30/2007 01:18:15 AM
awesome tones here
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08/29/2007 10:15:10 PM
NICE
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08/29/2007 08:08:13 PM
I like how the lights are heading into the red, I think you stopped the exposure at a great time.
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08/29/2007 10:24:19 AM
So while trying to figure out how this photo was taken, well I couldn't. Sure there's the simple slowing down of the shutter which causes light streaks, but the direction of the vehicle and the position of the light streak puts a twist to that. Then I thought, well maybe fog, but the amber shade in the sky and the exposure lends to a slower shutter speed and with the vehicle being in motion, that wouldn't make sense. Then I thought, it's probably a combination of fog with a stationary vehicle and slow shutter speed.

Nonetheless, great lighting and clever control of the environment, high points from me for making me think on this one.
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