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Racing down the highway
Racing down the highway
pcody


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Challenge: Motion Blur (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Sigma SD9
Location: highway
Date: Mar 27, 2004
Aperture: 11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8s
Date Uploaded: Mar 28, 2004

 This one has the most post production work I have done so far. Maybe I have gone too far. Here are some of the things I've done.
Cloned out dust and a couple of trails I got from the metal hub caps. Increased sat, edge preserving smooth, heavy sharpening. Dodged the driver and the area around the passenger.
Duplicate layer, edge dilate and edge erode, curves. Blend mode lighten. Cloned a bit of the wheels to make them more even. There was a bump in the road.
Duplicate the duplicate layer, blend mode screen 50 percent.
Merge
Resize, light sharpen, salt and pepper filter.
Save as jpeg.
I should have used less zoom to get more of the cars into the frame. I had to clone out a bit of the front car also. It ran past the edge of the frame, but this was the first time I have tried to pan, so it was a lesson learned. Used the 28-300 at 48.

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Sony Alpha a6400
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 03/30/2004 01:59:50 PM
Good blur but the composition is too tight for my taste. = 5
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/30/2004 11:28:56 AM
Cool idea, it would be awsome had the cars been in focus. Also the white bar on the top is distracting. I like dueling idea.
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RIM BlackBerry Curve
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 03/29/2004 02:39:43 PM
Certainly plenty of motion going on
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Olympus PEN E-PL2
Olympus 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 M.Zuiko Digital
03/29/2004 10:01:10 AM
This had a good potential (two cars together is different and difficult) but it just looks too blurry. If you used a shorter exposure or panned a little bit as the vehicles went passed (like the people who did the VW and Mercedes) the cars might have had a little more definition, and I think the impression of speed would be improved. I still think it is a fine effort - the bold colours work well and it still fits the challenge. 5.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 03/29/2004 06:23:36 AM
Common theme. It would have been nice if either the cars or the road had been blurred rather than both.
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR
 03/29/2004 12:20:53 AM
It's hard to tell if thats out of focus or blurred by motion, because there isnt really anything to judge as being in focus.
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