Hand-held shot, part of a counter for a 'lotto' outlet in Leeston. One of only three Neon signs in town.
I got some weird looks when I wandered up to take a photo of part of the counter, and explaining it was almost as odd. I think Bill & Sue (The shop owners) think I'm nuts. OK, they think I'm _more_ nuts now. :-).
Editing was crop, slight curves adjustment, scale and then light USM. Using gimp. I didn't touch the saturation, the colours are out of the camera.
The background is shiny plastic/perspex of some kind, so I had to move about quite a bit to get a reflection-less shot. I still picked up some minor ones in the bottom left, and the Yellow tube shows up the dust something cronic, but it's basic editing, and I'm not going back with a rag to clean their Neon lights for them!
Took the shot with -2 stops compenstation to get it looking right, could possibly have done with -2.5 or .3, but I wasn't going to fiddle about with manual settings when Sue was all but ready to call the men in white coats. :-).
This is a bit of a back to basics shot, be interesting to see how well 'minimal' does in a challenge that's bound to be full of complex, colourful photos.
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Nice picture. I like the parallel lines. Would have been very interesting if you had cropped the bottom left part of the neons so we did not see the way it's fixed.
if you only could remove those small black points from the yellow neon bar, this would be perfect. Anyway, it's my favourite and hope you win. Congrats.
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