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"Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up."
"Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up."
GrayGhost


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wind II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: New Providence, NJ USA
Date: Oct 29, 2006
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Oct 29, 2006

Home made kite and large woody. I intended to have a beautiful kite flying with woody being lifted up by the wind into the sky. But I couldn't find a beautiful kite in any store in the area after phone calls and visits in person. So I ended up buying material at Michaels, and spent some of my Saturday making my own kite.

Today, it was windy, but the wind was swirling and inconsistent. Through many attempts, repair, and retries, the kite never flew steadily enough to set up the photo. So I had to prop it up and take some shots before the light was gone, thus the crop and not the whole kite and woody. I tried some shots with fill flash shot through a reflector, but I didn't like any of them.

While craft work is it's own reward in the doing of it, I still wanted a photo to show for the effort. It least I got this shot, even though it is far from what I intended. Oh well, hope that at least a few people like it anyway.

Manual exposure, 17mm.

ACR exposure/brightness/contrast/saturation, PS crop, rotate, levels, color, resize, color profile, despeckle, USM, save for web.

It's time to mail-order a beautiful kite and get Neat Image.

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Avg (commenters): 5.2857
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Views since voting: 702
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Votes: 238
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11/06/2006 05:49:18 AM
Another underrated image. I had it as an 8.
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11/05/2006 09:13:09 PM
Well, *I* like it! :)

(ps. noiseware has a decent freeware program until you get your NoiseNinja ;) )
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/04/2006 02:33:29 PM
Hope is the thing with a hang glider. 7 for lol.
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11/03/2006 04:02:05 PM
hang on!!
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11/02/2006 01:25:09 PM
The woody is well posed and framed in this shot, but I don't get any impression that the kite is flying. Good title, though!
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10/31/2006 04:54:34 PM
far out, i really like this shot, very graphic which i particularly like =8 ...... & i'm new to dpc so i'm not all that sure who this woody guy is ... but he does certainly get around!..
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10/31/2006 01:16:25 AM
Agreed!
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10/30/2006 05:54:37 PM
I like your title.
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10/29/2006 07:11:51 PM
Burn all Woodies! No more! No more!


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