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I Like Driving In My Car .....
I Like Driving In My Car .....
bobonacus


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 1-Second Exposure (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Tokina AF 11-16mm f/2.8 116 AT-X Pro DX for Canon
Location: Bracknell
Date: Mar 21, 2009
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1s
Galleries: Transportation, Blur
Date Uploaded: Mar 20, 2009

 Shot with a suction clamp on the bonnet and a cheap remote release :) Driving at about 20mph was plenty to get some nice motion blur! Had ND8 filter and polariser on the lens to be able to shoot for 1s in the bright sunshine!

Opened in RAW, upped exposure, blacks, clarity, sharpness, vibrancy. In CS3 slight crop to remove vignette, curves, levels, Gradient layer @ 8% softlight to just bring down the highlights in the sky. Flatten, clone a couple of spots of dust, resize, save!

Post
4th place is cool :)
I used a suction clamp to mount the camera to the front of the car

and had the wide angle lens @ 12mm using a cheap wireless remote from the car to fire the camera :D

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 132
Avg (all users): 6.9144
Avg (commenters): 7.7500
Avg (participants): 6.4603
Avg (non-participants): 7.1452
Views since voting: 4981
Views during voting: 532
Votes: 187
Comments: 22
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 08/15/2012 12:54:44 PM
This is awesome. Looks way way way faster than 20mph. I don't think I'd have the faith in a suction cup mount. Cool thing about that scavenger hunt thread is revisiting great photos.
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 03/30/2009 09:22:49 PM
This is an incredibly good photo! Congratulations on your 4th place finish.
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 03/30/2009 09:17:35 PM
Awesome! Congrats on your top 10!
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 03/30/2009 07:44:08 PM
WOW .. and congats on such a brilliant idea ... fantastic shot .. :)
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 03/30/2009 09:25:19 AM
This is fantastic, wish there were four ribbons to be had. Great work, Robert.
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 03/30/2009 07:16:22 AM
Robert, you are THE BOMB! This is really COOL! Congratulations!
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 03/30/2009 01:55:32 AM
This is such a cool image...I have no idea how you would trust an EOS 40D to a suction clamp...I have a Tom Tom Navigator and the suction cup drops every hour...very brave. Well done
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 03/29/2009 08:49:35 PM
This is way cool. Compositionally and technically very good too. Well done and congrats on 4th place.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/29/2009 07:36:04 PM
I'll be interested to see exactly how you did this.
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 03/29/2009 03:15:45 PM
Excellent example for this challenge.
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 03/27/2009 10:44:33 AM
HAHA this is great! How did you mount the camera to the car?
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 03/26/2009 09:48:33 AM
Awesome perspective. This will do well.
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 03/26/2009 05:33:29 AM
love it. hope u win
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 03/26/2009 12:11:47 AM
very effective approach to the challenge. In that car, you should smile, though :)
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 03/25/2009 08:01:18 PM
Awesome effect, one of the better ones of the challenge.
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 03/24/2009 07:44:54 PM
So cool. How did you do this?
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 03/24/2009 09:31:30 AM
Brilliant, I am instantly struck by the feeling of speed here, great work 9
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 03/23/2009 09:32:12 PM
coooool ! nice job keeping driver focused
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 03/23/2009 07:21:08 PM
OMG!!! YOUR ON THE WRONG SIDE!!!
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 03/23/2009 02:22:27 PM
Great capture. Ribbon, here?
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 03/23/2009 08:16:27 AM
Yeah, but you're steering wheel's on the wrong side. ;-)
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 03/23/2009 12:22:15 AM
Wicked shot!!!
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