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3rd PlacePump You Up
moonwell


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Challenge: Gas Stations (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Cumming, IA
Date: Feb 17, 2009
Aperture: F4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/3s
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2009

 Thanks for the votes & comments!

The back/rim light is from two or three manual flash pops from different angles behind the pump. The ambient lighting there from the single street lamp was horrible.

Statistics
Place: 3 out of 135
Avg (all users): 6.7276
Avg (commenters): 7.8824
Avg (participants): 6.3387
Avg (non-participants): 6.8513
Views since voting: 5089
Views during voting: 455
Votes: 257
Comments: 30
Favorites: 0

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 03/02/2009 06:49:24 AM
Creative idea and well done! Congrats
 02/27/2009 06:19:41 AM
What a classy way to present that old pump. This is fantastic and very worthy of an award :) Congratulations!

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 02/25/2009 04:49:58 PM
Great job. Congratulations on the ribbon. Well deserved.
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 02/25/2009 10:57:36 AM
This was one of my few 10th in this challenge. Well deserved ribbon! Congrats!
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 02/25/2009 09:31:31 AM
It's different and very, very good. Congratulations on your ribbon.
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 02/25/2009 01:52:47 AM
Great shot. I'm glad other people thought so too.
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 02/25/2009 12:38:45 AM
Good POV
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 02/25/2009 12:12:19 AM
Congrats !!! very different and it paid off handsomely. well done
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 02/24/2009 09:20:59 PM
Congratulations, well deserved ribbon
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 02/24/2009 08:26:30 PM
Nice take on the challenge! Congrats!
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 02/24/2009 07:32:55 PM
Great job making the ordinary extraordinary! Especially with basic editing.
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 02/24/2009 07:20:34 PM
Congrats on another ribbon
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 02/24/2009 07:06:49 PM
I like the highlights from the backlighting, congrats on the yellow. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/24/2009 12:59:14 PM
Nice control with lighting. Simple but interesting with all the curves and void space.
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 02/24/2009 11:37:37 AM
A wonderful minimalist shot!
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 02/23/2009 08:29:13 AM
Nice use of the nighttime lighting. I like the outlined effect that the backlighting gives it.
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 02/22/2009 11:45:31 AM
One of my favorites in this challenge. I love the composition, back lighting and texture here. Well done! 10
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 02/22/2009 10:22:12 AM
Full marks for finding a more creative composition than most... good execution.. I think this might ribbon... 9
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 02/21/2009 05:30:36 AM
Excellent job. Nice colors good contrast, great lighting.
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 02/20/2009 04:03:33 PM
great shadow and highlighting...used the basic to the best of it's potential
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 02/20/2009 10:07:44 AM
Clean, simple (stockish), with great color...should do well with this. :-)
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 02/20/2009 06:58:34 AM
nice shot, great background
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 02/20/2009 03:03:33 AM
Love the lighting
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 02/19/2009 05:22:43 AM
I was looking for the same shot. Great idea and execution.
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 02/18/2009 09:27:11 PM
nice work... 1st equal
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 02/18/2009 12:19:27 PM
great curves!
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 02/18/2009 11:11:49 AM
I love this, one of my top two so far in voting. Great cool steel blues coming from the handle. Fabulous lighting. Will look forward to reading how you set it up.
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 02/18/2009 09:16:59 AM
Brilliant and I hope it scores high.
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 02/18/2009 08:30:32 AM
Very nice lighting!
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 02/17/2009 08:20:00 PM
Simple, and yet elegant. Different to the rest. Seeing something differently to what the others have seen, and then capturing it well.
Control of the lighting would have been a challenge, but you have done that well.
Maybe having the top of the pump where the nozzel goes into the bowser couold have improved, rather than the spot it is here.
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