There's an old sports ground not far from home, which is littered with old, abandoned, mostly burned-out and rusted cars (presumably stolen).
I've visited the place before - although previously only with a film camera - and so as soon as I saw the challenge I knew where to go!
The foreground is filled with the rusted roof of one car, looking across to another one in the background. Rotated, a slight crop, levels and a touch of sharpening to bring out the foreground rust, and finally a simple border.
I'm sure I'll get hurt by the fact that the majority of the picture is (intentionally!) out of focus, but it's one of my entries I'm more pleased with - it actually came out exactly as I wanted it to, for a change.
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Wow can't believe how badly this did. I see what you were trying to do and in my opinion you did it very well. Deserved to finish with 6. All those stupid comments about lack of focus. Some people...
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 5
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 9
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 4
How well does it meet the challenge: 10
Total Averaged Rating 7.00 Dick
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 7
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 7
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 6
How well does it meet the challenge: 8
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 7
Not sure if ti's an attempt to be interesting with the out of focus car, and frankly I'm not sure if it perhaps even is, but it leaves me wondering and with a feeling that it should have been in focus. There's nothing in the front car(?) to see.
I get a lot of these pictures myself with the aid of "focus on nearest object" autofocus and I rarely keep them. However the colors are nice and the composition is working even it is odd, so I'll leave you with an average score.
My eyes are drawn to the car at the top of the picture, but since it is not in focus, my eyes start to cross. Thus taking an interesting picture, and making it not one I want to look at for long.
hmmm....the wreck in the back looks more interesting than the large expanse of rusted whatever in the foreground. Still it's an interesting slant on the subject.
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