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Sudden road closure..

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Edits: Removed old frame, uploaded color version, +contrast

I was fooling around with long exposure and rear curtain flash (in between shows at the party) so i didn't want to bother with taking it off while i was just outside the gallery..

I tried taking a few more pan shots after this one, but i didn't like them at all, so the first was the best..

Its not ever i take a street shot with flash, so don't expect it again ;)

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Sigma 18-50/2.8
Sb800 rear
Image size
3600x2400px 8.74 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D300
Shutter Speed
1/2 second
Aperture
F/6.3
Focal Length
34 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
Jul 17, 2008, 9:20:23 PM
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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

This photograph catches you from thumbnail-size, always a great start. What's always great is that it gets even neater when you see it full-size unlike some great thumbnails. Right off the bat, this photograph really confused me technologically, because the blur behind the policeman is going one way yet the trail from the Road closed sign is going to other way, which is a really neat effect. and now that I've figured out how you did it, I want to try to do it myself. This is a beautiful use of rear-syncing your flash, making that Road Closed sign float. The flash is really important in this photograph not only to get a cleaner shot of the cop, but also to make all the luminescent objects to pop like his reflectors and the signs over his head, as well as the Road Closed sign.

The lines that pull us through the photograph are beautiful. I am so glad that they are not straight, and they all have such neat shapes to them. There are neons/florescents leaving interesting dotted patterns as well as that blue tubular light in the center. You could almost say that this has a light graffiti background.

I really don't have much negative to say about this photograph. I even like the pole in the middle neatly separating the photograph into two parts almost like a diptych. The grain, I'm assuming from the ISO400, gives it a great, realistic gritty feeling. Nothing glossy perfection to it. It feels real. Even though you are at F/6.3 with a wide angle lens, your subject is pulled out from your background because of the panning while the depth of field keeps those beautiful lights in great focus making them look like they're floating somewhere in the air.

The only thing that is bothering me is that white thing the front wheel is on top of, I cannot figure out what it is, but there's nothing you could have done about that.

Mini-rant starting.....now: I think the vision part is unnecessary. dA defines it as "a point of view, theme or idea" implying that artwork has to have some deeper meaning to be good. I mean if you have some deeper meaning behind this photograph fine, but I just gave you a 4.5 so that it wouldn't impact your average. Mini-rant over.

The longer I look at the photograph the more little treasures I find like the reflect of the rim of the back wheel that's offset even further back, and similarly the the floating "Police" reflector off his back. This is a fantastic capture. Great job!-Steven