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Any Colour You Like - Duck Side of the Moon
Any Colour You Like - Duck Side of the Moon
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Challenge: Pink Floyd (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: london, UK
Date: Dec 16, 2006
Aperture: f22
ISO: 50
Shutter: 25 seconds
Galleries: Abstract, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Dec 16, 2006

 I thought this might resemble the spectrum from the classic 70's album - Dark Side of the Moon... as well as representing the instrumental 8th track 'Any colour you Like'

Oh, and I just couldn't resist a pun on the album title...

Chris

Edit...

Thanks all for the comments on this entry, a number of people asked how it was done so here it is in a little more detail:

Basically I used a 25 Second Exposure and a 24-105 Zoom lens. During the exposure I stepped the zoom from 24 to 105 pausing for appx 3 seconds after each turn of the zoom ring.

The trick here is that the rubber duck has an internal LED that blends between Red, Blue and Green colors so it was a case of timing the steps to correspond with a change of color and pretty much hope for the best. I was happy with the way it came out (sort of how I had imagined it would look, which may say something about my photography..)

I know lots of people are fed up with the cats, ducks and rubber ducks in entries so it was a gamble.. maybe I'll dig him out for the next 'duck' challenge :-)

PS/ The duck only lights up when in water so I had to stand it in a small puddle for the shoot... if you look carefully you can just see water drops to the left of the base of the smaller image...




Statistics
Place: 42 out of 151
Avg (all users): 6.0000
Avg (commenters): 8.1429
Avg (participants): 5.5000
Avg (non-participants): 6.1667
Views since voting: 1671
Views during voting: 415
Votes: 208
Comments: 18
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 12/27/2006 06:11:57 PM
I really liked this picture also, I'm surprized it finished so low.

Message edited by author 2006-12-27 23:12:15.
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 12/27/2006 05:29:19 AM
I am very surprized to see this one so low. oh well! in any case, congratulations on this excellent image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/26/2006 05:18:34 PM
thats pretty cool
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 12/26/2006 12:35:04 PM
I kindof like this shot, very cool lighting but a bit too busy with all those ducks overlaying like that, my eye really doesn´t find a one spot to rest on. That said though, one of the best in the challenge and an 8 from me, hope you do well with it.
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 12/26/2006 12:31:12 PM
Great shot, great creativity, made me LOL. Hope you'll post how you did this in basic. 9.
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 12/24/2006 05:14:30 PM
Hate the ducks, love the photo. a 10
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 12/24/2006 05:39:51 AM
I guess this must be an ongoing dpc joke, but it's getting played out. Cool photo, though, so I'll score it on that. Just please, no more ducks.
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 12/23/2006 09:22:17 AM
hahaha nice play on words, silly ducky :) how'd you do this?
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 12/23/2006 02:07:15 AM
Coo! I'm intrigued by the technique behind this one! Kind of eery! :o)
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 12/23/2006 12:09:06 AM
7 it looks like a duck with a pig´s nose, making it even more pink floyd-esque
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 12/22/2006 06:33:34 PM
Nice effect! Creative rubber ducky artistry!
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 12/22/2006 11:09:41 AM
Very cool image! I'm quite curious to know how you did this!
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 12/21/2006 05:58:57 PM
"duck side" heheheheh funny very cool/interesting effect too. how did you do it?
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 12/21/2006 10:51:35 AM
Very cool shot - I'm having some trouble imagining how you did it, though.
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 12/20/2006 05:10:08 PM
cool and funny at the same time! 8 bump to 9
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 12/20/2006 01:50:05 PM
lol this is cool! 9
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 12/20/2006 06:03:42 AM
Interesting to see how this was done. Exellent work.
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 12/19/2006 11:00:00 PM
Interesting effect though I am pretty tired of the duckies! Wish the first few were a much different color from eachother like the last ones are. Really well done. Every part of the image looks very crisp!
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