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Challenge: Free Study 2008-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Digger McEwan
Date: Nov 2, 2008
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Sports, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Nov 25, 2008

 Taupo MotoX 2008.

I was lucky enough to land a press-pass to this event on the premise I hand over 5 pictures at the end of the event... I did, but they weren't touched at all.

OK... jpeg, levels x 2, curves, OnOne Professional for the sky. Noise Ninja was used to clean up the sky a little bit. Apply image, gradient map on 'soft light', high pass, USM, Nik Color Efex to remove a blue colour cast :( and make it a bit more punchy. Vignette.

Also, final vignette added by adding a 3 pixel line around the picture and blurring it to bring out the centre more.

Shadow/highlight on the guy, brightness/contrast on the guy also to bring him out a bit more.

Resize, SFW, probs some other bits and peices as i kept coming back to this.

I have a b/w version that I actually preferred but im going with general concensus on this one.

Statistics
Place: 59 out of 417
Avg (all users): 6.2952
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 6.3009
Avg (non-participants): 6.2830
Views since voting: 1136
Views during voting: 293
Votes: 166
Comments: 20
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 05/10/2009 01:07:00 PM
VERy rad shot, i have this an 8, love the processing and the sky and the freeze action. I dont think the vignetting was totally necessary in this case tho
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 03/17/2009 08:16:25 AM
This is awesome, love the way you processed it.
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 12/13/2008 07:46:48 AM
The capture is great and everything about the PP is fantastic.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2008 02:47:46 PM
pp suits the subject 9
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 12/06/2008 07:16:31 AM
Nice action shot.
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 12/06/2008 04:45:04 AM
LOVE the processing! 7
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 12/05/2008 11:13:06 AM
Great motion capture. Love the POV.
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 12/05/2008 04:57:45 AM
Great shot, this has a lot of depth to it and is very clear. I don't care for the darkness around the edges though.
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 12/04/2008 04:07:19 AM
Great stopped motion and very nice colours ... not a huge fan of the border, I find it a little distracting
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 12/03/2008 07:00:38 PM
Well done.
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 12/03/2008 03:16:16 PM
Cool shot and nice PP.
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 12/03/2008 01:59:21 PM
Great vignette, nice lighting, great contrast, really nice shot here, 9 from me.
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 12/03/2008 10:57:00 AM
Great editing. Good job. 8
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 12/02/2008 07:51:26 PM
It's interesting to me how close this comes to working really, really well, and how badly it suffers from missing the mark. To be more specific, you have frozen a moment of action extremely well, but there's essentially no tension in the image that underscores the power and intensity of the frozen moment.

You're close to it with the flying bits of dirt, but they don't call enough attention to themselves. The rider is anchored by his position in the frame, especially as regards the BG elements, but also by so solidly filling the center-right area of the frame. The half-hidden, second rider is no help at all. The overall image is curiously static for what should be such a dynamic situation.

Meanwhile, the processing, which I generally would like, seems to be, in this case, overpowering the image, and in particular the excessive edge-burning is working overtime to underscore the already-static ennui of the composition.

I look at this and wish the camera's POV were about 2 feet lower, maybe. That might have thrust the machine and its rider upwards more aggressively and worked in your favor.
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 12/02/2008 04:47:48 PM
I'm not sure I'm really liking the PP... but I'm not sure. I so like the moving dirt! (not voting yet)
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 12/02/2008 12:52:48 AM
I really like the image, but think you destroyed its potential with the vignette...sorry :( 6
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 12/01/2008 03:51:08 PM
edgy ..
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 12/01/2008 03:36:18 PM
almost graphic in feel - the sky, bike, it is all very cool
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 12/01/2008 01:28:15 PM
Cool processing.
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 12/01/2008 11:40:07 AM
well done! clone out 3 black points near the byke for the perfection.
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