This was a very very last minute entry! When I got back from shooting it, I realized that there was a huge lens flare above me and the only way I could make it work besides a really short crop was to blow out the highlights enough to hide it. Oh well!
Here is the original to show you how it was setup and to see the flare/dust:
The clock was about 4 feet away and I was about 30 feet away from camera. Twine was taped to the back of the clock and tied to the ground with one hanging loose to help with the illusion.
Editing: Cropped, cloned out the dust, ramped up the curves, levels enough to hide the flare, desaturate, resized, USM, black border and export.
Thanks for the sweet score, all of your great comments and the Blue Ribbon! Ninja power!
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Congratulations! I'm deeply impressed with your enormous work and glad with results. Your blue is absolutely deserved. Your creativity and hard work have not any comparison.
Keep up the good work!!
That's a great shot. I'm interested in more details to do something similar.
How big was the clock diameter? What zoom 28mm? I guess you mean't f/22 not 27?
LOVE it - I'm sure you wish there was spot-editing for this challenge just as much as most of us did - ;) 10! -- tho in spot-editing if you make a print out of this- i'd personally dodge and burn that rope a bit under the 'hands' and perhaps burn a little at the bottom of the clock -but of course that couldn't be done for the challenge and I know that ;) :-D BEAUTIFUL shapes (triangles everywhere!) ;)
I think this is one of the better shots however I would have liked to see feet and the bottom of the clock. but I am being picky there I still am going to vote it as the best one here....
Great idea and I like the way you tried to show the idea of moving time! Looks a bit surrealistic with the high contrast/high key look to this - Nice!
CJ
Very cool!! I like everyhting about it. (not voting yet)I am back to vote, this picture reminds me of a scene (i think) from mary poppins, I really like the negative space, and the comp so low to bottom, awesome image, my fav of the challenge, 10.
Great capture and depiction of the challenge. I would have preferred that the guy was not cropped partly out of the photo, and also the edge of the clock, but that is just me being really picky. Top Image!!
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