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Color Whirl
Color Whirl
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Challenge: Abstract Motion (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Mar 24, 2009
Aperture: f/ 20
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10 seconds
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Mar 24, 2009

 I bought a glossy wind spinner in Cape May back in 2005. I used it with a couple of strands of small multicolored ornamentel lights for two challenges that year: The Illusions II Challenge for an image called Rainbow Oscillations and for the Username Challenge for an image called 'wavelength' . The former scored a 5.2578 and the latter scored 5.9817. The mathematical progression inidcates a score on this of 6.8! LOLOLOL! Well...we'll see.

Haven't used the wind spinner since. Here is a pic of the set up from 2005 . The set up for this was basically the same, except for a lot more lights. I used a strand of 150 hanging them from the top of my shooting area on either side of the wind spinner which wad also hanging from the top of my shooting area. I have a piece of white poster board that I have weighted to the top shelf of my old computer desk that hangs over the 1.5 foot shooting area of the desk top.

The last images were shot with the Fuji S7000 so I was limited as to how I could shoot as I could only stop down to f/ 8 with that camera. Using the D200 now and the Nikon 105 VR, I had more options and used a few different apertures and shutter speeds before settling on the ones used in this and the majority of the images I shot.

Camera on tripod with cable remote release. I set the spinner in motion, shot on a diagonal and shot until the spinner slowed down and then repeated the process.

Well enough about that. Here it is. I hope it is at least abstract. It is certainly more abstract than the previous ones and I think and it shows motion better than those as well, hopefully.

Later!

Post: Camera Raw Adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Cropped to 1.25:1 aspect ratio and then cropped again to get rid of a hot pixel and a bit of glare from one of the lights at the lower right. Rotate 90° right. Adjust sharpness. Curves adjustment to increase the mid tones. Resize. USM.

Statistics
Place: 10 out of 227
Avg (all users): 6.1011
Avg (commenters): 7.3571
Avg (participants): 6.0119
Avg (non-participants): 6.1731
Views since voting: 1877
Views during voting: 299
Votes: 188
Comments: 18
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 04/02/2009 06:15:47 PM
Wow! Congrats on top 10!
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 03/31/2009 08:19:16 PM
Congrats on your top-10 finish! Excellent!
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 03/31/2009 08:08:12 PM
Wow , congrats Robert. WTG Islanders
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/30/2009 01:35:15 PM
Nice take on the contest.
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 03/29/2009 05:33:38 PM
Very nicely done! I like the colors.
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 03/29/2009 12:56:59 PM
very cool - love the twist, the color, and the composition!
Excellent choice.
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 03/28/2009 03:01:17 PM
First thing that popped into my head was, this would've been an awesome sculpture in an 80's night club! The colours are really great!
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 03/28/2009 02:35:37 PM
A very interesting use of color and adapting motion to influence color. It's certainly well within the challenge constraints.
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 03/28/2009 07:06:17 AM
looks like dna strain
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 03/28/2009 04:21:38 AM
This is such a cool shot, nice work. 8
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 03/27/2009 07:25:12 PM
I like the neon rainbow lighting.
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 03/27/2009 02:42:30 PM
Nicely done!
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 03/26/2009 02:30:26 PM
beautiful colours and good abstract feel
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 03/25/2009 09:30:27 PM
Colors jump out at you. Well framed, but for the life of me I can't guess what it is!
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 03/25/2009 06:34:29 PM
nice colors framing and motion very intersting
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 03/25/2009 05:50:32 AM
I like the diagonal composition and the colours.
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 03/25/2009 04:40:56 AM
Great color!
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 03/24/2009 08:25:14 PM
Lovely , colourful, abstract and movement. Well done.
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