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17-SEP-2006 Xianghong Wang

Rainbow colors

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
1/400s f/8.0 at 16.3mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time17-Sep-2006 05:04:29
MakePanasonic
ModelDMC-FZ30
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length16.3 mm
Exposure Time1/400 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent100
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Metering Modemulti spot (3)
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regi olbrechts14-Aug-2007 12:10
Great capture! Photography at its best!
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Tim May15-Apr-2007 17:27
I didn't see the uncropped version, but this one is wonderful - aside from all that has been said, I love the way his shirt matches the color he is running into and how he echos the runners on the wall.
Kal Khogali06-Oct-2006 17:24
A very eye-catching image Shirley...Phil's advice was great as usual ;-)K
Phil Douglis18-Sep-2006 03:38
I just realized that the runner is actually a soccer player. He is chasing a ball, which I did not notice in the uncropped version. It gives him a reason for his run!
Phil Douglis18-Sep-2006 03:36
You are welcome, Shirley. I love how this image works for you now. It is incongruous, with the symbolic athletes racing a real runner. And it is still just as rich in color contrast. Your FZ30, which has eight megapixels to play with, allows you to crop drastically like this and still have a good quality image of at least four to five megapixels.

(Am off on a shoot in Utah National Parks and Yellowstone tomorrow with pbase photographer Tim May. Back in October. More later. Tim and I are looking forward to meeting you when we come to Beijing a year from now.)
Shirley Wang18-Sep-2006 01:44
Thanks, Phil, for the good suggestion!
Phil Douglis17-Sep-2006 19:00
You can take this image in two different directions just by cropping or not cropping it, Shirley. As it stands, it offers scale incongruity and a range of color in those empty bleachers, but that's it -- a study in form. However, if you cropped the image as a long horizontal along the top of the stone bricks on that wall, and cropped that red figure on the right hand edge of the image out, you would be left with a striking image of speed -- a running man, incongruously chased by a running purple figure at left and chasing a running blue figure at right. Half the image of meaningless green windows on a brown facade would be gone. And the new cropped image, because it becomes a long horizontal, would seem to be moving in itself.
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