A pair of shoes, dangling from a power line. This line sweeps down across the road rather than being level. I thought the shoes made a nice silhouette, though I wasn’t considering that at the time. The blue sky is quite visible in the original. In Adobe Camera Raw, I pushed the contrast slider all the way to the right, which made the image look like this. I didn’t have to white out the background at all, since it was the brightest part.
Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/1000, F4.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2008-07-10T19:31:07-04, 20080710-233107rxt
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Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-21T11:30:19.Thanks—that’s why I like this one too. There’s hardly any gradation of tone, but it’s cool because you know from the outline that they’re shoes.
I’m getting a bunch of 4×6 copies printed; I think they’ll turn out pretty nice with a lustre finish.
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