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Automotive Lightning
Automotive Lightning
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Challenge: Macro IV (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: My kitchen
Date: Aug 1, 2004
Aperture: F/16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 15 sec
Galleries: Macro, Studio
Date Uploaded: Aug 1, 2004

 I could not get an image with the plug hooked up the the car due to vibration. I tried removing the coil from the car and hooking it up to a battery charger. This made a lot of sparks but in the wrong place. I finally decided to hook the spark plug up to a pizoelectric BBQ igniter for spark. I used the self timer to minimize tripod shake and pushed the BBQ starter about 7 times during the 15 second exposure. I used a small flashlight for a couple of seconds during the exposure to side light the threads. Electrodes lightened and threads darkened in photoshop. Dirt cloned out of ceramic electrode. Spark brightened. Entire image sharpened with unsharpen mask.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 248
Avg (all users): 6.1561
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.9483
Avg (non-participants): 6.5789
Views since voting: 2483
Views during voting: 305
Votes: 173
Comments: 14
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 08/08/2004 10:23:03 PM
O.K.
Now I'm pissed! This should have finished way way higher.
I am disappointed for you.
Excellent image.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/08/2004 07:33:43 AM
Now I now how it works! Good ideea and execution.
 08/06/2004 10:57:29 PM
Impressive, love it.
 08/05/2004 01:12:45 PM
Way to shoot outside the box. Great detail and nicely cropped. Very good.
 08/05/2004 12:41:27 PM
Creative with good contrast.
 08/05/2004 10:16:03 AM
Wow - nice sparks! I like the contract in color between the neon blue of the spark and the dull metal. Thaving your subject against the black helps focus attention on the spark, good. The details look oversharpened or perhaps the resolution is low.
 08/04/2004 05:29:09 PM
This picture has a lot of spark. Nice capture.
 08/04/2004 02:41:21 PM
I'm picking this to ribbon! Excellent job!
I gotta know how you fired that plug!
 08/03/2004 09:34:19 AM
Exceptional macro. Great idea and puloled out exceptionally well. Your lighting perfect to allow the spark to retain its color.
 08/03/2004 08:36:58 AM
interesting, I would like to know how you did this after the voting is over
 08/02/2004 07:05:00 PM
I can see this on the cover of Popular Mechanics, or some such. Excellent technical capture of a technical subject. Great focus and lighting. Hope the spark is real and not photoshopped in. Good job.
 08/02/2004 05:13:11 PM
Thank you, thank you. After several consecutive insects, a refreshing, and very well done, difference. Beautiful detail. I look forward to seeing the details of how you shot this. 8.
 08/02/2004 01:54:52 PM
My goodness, that's a Sparkplug, isn't it! Really neat to capture the firing on this one. Hope you do very well with this excellent image.
 08/02/2004 11:13:50 AM
Very creative. You have my 7


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