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Washing the Car
Washing the Car
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Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Old
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: home
Date: Jun 13, 2004
Aperture: F8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30 sec
Galleries: Abstract, Water
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2004

Title ideas: Washing the Car, Getting Wet, Sprayed, Blasted, Car Wash, Burst, Nozzle

Hopefully this won't get voted down for someone looking at it and saying: "this doesn't say 'mode of transportation' to me." We'll see what happens.

It was Saturday, I was doing chores and decided to pull out the camera and see if I could get anything interesting for this challenge. I began with abstract angles, but they weren't very intriguing. Back to business, I started washing the car, and that's when I got the idea for a shot like this. This was, IMO, the best of the 77 that made it to my computer. The rest were deleted on spot. Only 16 on these 77 are taken with slower exposure like this one. But I didn't like those as much once I got to the computer.

Editing consisted of: cropping, b&c, levels, saturation, resizing, sharpening, a tiny bit of blurring, border

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 159
Avg (all users): 5.3455
Avg (commenters): 5.8182
Avg (participants): 5.0562
Avg (non-participants): 5.6842
Views since voting: 723
Votes: 165
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2004 01:52:11 PM
Well balanced composition, and a neat idea. Lacks jjust that touch of punch - perhaps either a faster or slower shutter would have either frozen the water or blurred it more completely? This seems to fall rather halfway, to me. Would love to see it really fast, freezing that action :-) 6
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06/19/2004 02:44:58 AM
At least there's some intereset in this. Nice take on challenge.
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06/19/2004 02:18:24 AM
Interesting shot, I like the almost stop motion, neat effect. Framing is also cool. Would like to see a little more contrast...
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06/18/2004 01:27:26 PM
Great 10
06/16/2004 12:49:46 PM
creative for this challenge, I like that
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06/16/2004 01:30:47 AM
I dont know, just does not work for me. Sorry for this, but I am being honest. I'm not a good photographer myself, but had to give this a 3
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06/14/2004 09:54:23 PM
the hose. nice effect.
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06/14/2004 08:24:01 PM
Great idea, love it. I like the slow shutter effect.
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06/14/2004 12:28:31 PM
Creative idea. I appreciate all the images in this competition that are more that just a camera pointed at a plane, train, or automobile!
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06/14/2004 10:50:56 AM
Great composition. I like how the radial effect of the water fills the shot.
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06/14/2004 05:47:19 AM
Nice capture of the water,
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