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Published: 2003-11-30 15:55:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 3461; Favourites: 117; Downloads: 2710
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Ok, so here's a new technique I'm trying to perfect: windshield photography.You know how on a windshield there's a strip where the glass starts to darken as it gets towards the top? Well, that's how I got the sky in this shot to have that curving gradient into black. Pretty interesting effect, I've still got a couple ideas I want to try with it....
Anyways, this shot is just outside of Salt Lake City. I had my camera out and ready as I was approaching the turn (yes, I was driving at the time
) In post-production: rotated and cropped the shot, and then did an adjustment layer on the road to brighten it up slightly and increase the contrast to emphasize its lines. The a bump on the contrast on the whole thing. Oh, and I had to edit out some bug splatters on my windshield 
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I don't blieve I've ever heard of someone doing that. I will have to most definately try that now.
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I've been trying something similar, nothing like this though. Excellent shot.
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amazing shot,ilove the prospective.
I loved your gallery,you're so talented.
and you should more portraits,you are good at it too
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the sky and the reflex on the water is amazing, definetly a
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Im loving the clouds. This is such a great shot.
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I thought about the windshield technique once. it is quite amazing, but this shot is the best I've ever seen of it. congradulations, it's great!
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Great shot. I love your work. I'll have to add you to my watch list.
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I was so sure I had commented on this before. I remember seeing this before. 
Anyway, I love how the road smoothly curves away from the viewer and round towards the edge of the border on the left side, the eye is drawn towards this area and that gorgeous sky.
Great shot.
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this is an amazing shot. the sky is beautiful, and the technique is quite interesting- good idea.
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MAGNIFICANT! I'm s-t-u-n-n-e-d..
The composition, the colors, the windshield effect, the perspective in the road.. romantic.. It's perfect! 
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now, if only i could my photos taken from inside the car to look like THAT!
a definitely good technique tho - absolutely ingenious to use that top part of the windshield to your photographic advantage.
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wow @ using something which has ALWAYZ irritated me (the dark part of the windscreen) to create something this beautiful !
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I like how serene everything looks, especially the sky and then there is that isolated storm. Amazing shot!
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Great. That sky certainly does it for me. +fav
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Ops. I got distracted, what I meant is " Great idea! Very good photo, great colors."
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this is so great!!! i love your newly developped windshield tecnique. it's really creative... thats what art should be like, an experiment...
thumps up!
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You did a better job than I at taken photo's while driving. I did it through the grapevine while there was fog....I really wish I had pulled over for it. I like the composition as well as the rich blues.
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stunning....awe inspiring. Good grief this is almost orgasmic.
::mike
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Amazing shot, and I think Iβve used this before, but great balance between the road in the sky. The dark patches above and below and the strip of light in the middle. Looking at it feels natural and I just love the title you used for it. It stands for the simplicity at first sight and a certain depth when you look at it further.
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Great concept. I have always wanted to try it, but I can't seem to stay focused on the road. Hell, if I did this, I would end up in the ditch or the back seat of the car in front of me.
Nice work. This is a beautiful pic.
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This is nice...I did windshield photography once (check my gallery if you care to see it)...didn't turn out this nice though...it was unintentional windshield photography
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Nice, One of my pictures in my gallery is a windshield shot. Came out pretty good as well, no bug splatters to be seen. I like the sky here, nice effect with the windshield dude!
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beautiful, the quantity of leading lines in this shot is impressive....
what can I say, windshield photography at its best....
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Wow! I love the way it just fades into black. (Oh my..instantaneously reminded of a Metallica song *baps head*) The shot is so clear..what kind of Camera do you have?
but anyways! onto the subject of the photograph lol
I guess all I can really say is that I just love the concept and how the sky looks. The sun looks really neat behind all those big fluffy clouds too.
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Haha! Great idea using your windshield as a gradient filter. 
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That's absolutely brilliant man, I'm gonna have to try it sometime, when I get my own car... Dont think Dad would like me taking pictures while driving in his
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on the highway
The photo gives me some kind of freedom-feeling!
good work!
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Such a wonderful composition; I love how you used the left side for the clouds in front of the sun, and give us a vision of the sunrays stretching towards the right 2/3 of it. This is very creative, and, isn't it something what we do for a photo?? I love the sky, it's terrific, and the darkness emphasizes the clouds and light. Beautiful capture!
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wow--- what a nice piece. i really like the wideness and the colors as well as the scenery for its own.
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its really a genius of a technique, really cool way to take shots, yep it shud be developed as a print
chris
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this is a really great shot. Great idea too, using the windshield for color
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Wonderful capture mister. 
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