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Long Term Parking
Long Term Parking
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Challenge: Rusted (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Barnet Gate, Herts
Date: May 2, 2004
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Urban, Still Life
Date Uploaded: May 2, 2004

 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.

Statistics
Place: 322 out of 443
Avg (all users): 4.7301
Avg (commenters): 4.8333
Avg (participants): 4.6190
Avg (non-participants): 4.8843
Views since voting: 959
Votes: 289
Comments: 20
Favorites: 0

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 05/12/2004 03:50:40 AM
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...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/11/2004 10:16:03 AM
Great DOF
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 05/10/2004 06:28:06 PM
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
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 05/10/2004 04:33:35 PM
I'm not sure about this DOF ... don't like it very much ... but good idea ...
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 05/09/2004 05:29:13 PM
I might have reversed the focused objects
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 05/09/2004 10:24:08 AM
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
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 05/08/2004 06:41:50 AM
good idead, but I think I would have made the further car in focus. That's what I look at when I see te title "Long Term Parking".
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 05/08/2004 06:11:13 AM
Focus - 1
 05/08/2004 01:04:45 AM
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.
 05/07/2004 02:47:40 PM
I find the background very distracting. Maybe you could have tried using a greater DOF.
 05/07/2004 04:53:58 AM
Great shot. And much better than mine :)
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 05/07/2004 03:35:39 AM
why so blurred?
 05/06/2004 06:10:27 PM
Focus?????
 05/06/2004 10:35:03 AM
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.
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 05/06/2004 05:56:37 AM
Focusing on the background car would have been more interesting. Super depth of field would have been fabulous.
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 05/06/2004 02:47:59 AM
the car catches your eye, after that you're just looking for something in fokus...
-7
 05/05/2004 11:14:12 PM
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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 05/05/2004 01:58:01 PM
WEII SEEN
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 05/05/2004 11:02:23 AM
Too bad that the car in the rear wasn't in focus.
 05/04/2004 11:46:07 PM
I think the swapped focus will kill this, but I happen to really enjoy it. Nice job!
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