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Postby Yi-P on Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:04 am

Upon walking to the train station from work, found this very rare lighting and opportunity, took my chance to snap the bike.


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Had to crop and clone out the nasty traffic in the Chatswood suburb...
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Postby Yi-P on Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:20 pm

Is there anything wrong with the pic?? :roll:
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Postby mark on Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:57 pm

Yi-P I can see why the light attracted you to the bike and why you wanted to take the picture.

I just can't seem to get past the >>>>>> sign behind it.

Not being there it's hard to say how you could have avoided this, but perhaps a better composition. Shooting from lower down to the ground up at the bike would have hidden the sign behind it and also given the background a dark feel, being the dark area you see in the top of your pic.

But as I said, not being there I really couldn't say if this would have worked.
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:42 pm

Thanks Mark,

I tried to get lower as well,but then the lower I go, the more traffic gets in my view, and I cant be standing in the middle of the street to get a shot, otherwise I'll be crushed by the running buses or impatient drivers around.


And what interesting enough, the warm 'golden' lights does not come from from a sunset view, its actually headlights of an old Toyota... :P
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Postby Oscar on Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:53 pm

The lighting and the bike look great - if only the background wasn't so distracting behind the subject. Perhaps a different angle may have resulted in a better composition. Cheers, Mick :) :)
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Postby MarcL on Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:28 pm

Call me crazy, but I like the sign behind it. What more apt symbol can accompany the shot than the universal road sign for "Road turns sharply". Maybe, some selective blurring on it, so it wasn't so "sharply" obvious (but still identifiable)The light is smashing - I'm surprised that it's headlights and not sunset light. If I offered a criticism it's probably one that rectifying would get you killed - the angle is marginally to the rear of a full profile, whereas marginally (or more) to the front would have looked better for me (dependant on what the background become then, of course).

I very much like it - it has aspirations to product photography in a bike mag'.

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