This was the kind of shot I wanted to make the whole week. Bad wheater prevented that, but sundaynight it was possible. 2 degrees Celsius below zero, with a hard wind freezing my hands and face. The result is OK for a first try. In the summer I would have done 25 attempts, but after 7 it got to cold. I still had to walk a mile home.
It was hard to get the light as it is in postprocessing. Photoshop opened it like it is, but when saving it for the web, it turned dark, the road in the foreground went black. No matter what I did.
So here is the process: Open in PS, resized to 640x480 (I wanted to keep the moon in the frame), Unsharp Mask. Printscreen in photoshop, loaded the screendump in Irfanview, cropped a 640x480 from all the PS clutter, saved as a TIFF. Back to Photoshop and saved for the web near 150kb. Now it looked like shit in PS, but good in IExplorer 6, and that is what counts.
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Initial thoughts Light trails well captured but little else of interest in the frame.
Composition/ Content This is quite weak for me. Although I do like the way the light trails converge at a point – it doesn’t lead me to anything so there’s a sense of the eye being lead into the shot and then thinking, now what? I
appreciate you wanted to keep the moon in the shot but for me this means that there is just too much blackness overall. I am also distracted by that building at the right hand side.
In terms of composition my favourite crop of this shot is as a square, losing some from the right and the left and the top so that the point of light at the top of the light trails is dead centre.
Background The black of night is lovely and dark but a little bland – especially when the building on the right is more obvious than that moon up above.
Camera Work - Technical Looks fine to me!
Digital Processing - Technical Some of the light trails seem a little jaggy but maybe that’s my screen…
Fits The Challenge Yes.
Your Opinion On The Photo Interesting idea but isn’t as strong as it could be.
Definately motion. It's not a wow kind of image, but it is technically well done. The color is good, and the lines are good too. I think the angle and framing/cropping are alright. Good luck in the challenge.
Not bad but I think it would look better with a tighter crop on the traffic. I'm guessing you wanted to keep the moon in the shot though, I think it would have looked better with a tighter crop and losing hte moon.
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