Pushing It

For Round 4 of Get Pushed, I was paired with Danny Yu Photography, who doesn't have many photos in his stream, but takes some smashing cityscapes. He's also been playing around with freelensing, so my challenge to him:

 

Hi Danny,

I really enjoyed your Seattle cityscapes and the long exposure headlights. I notice though that I can tell what everything is in your stream... so my challenge to you is to create a more abstract image, with no free-lensing!

 

Nic

 

His reply:

Hey Nic,

Thanks and darn your challenge, I love free lensing. I love your use of le shapes. Well I can also it seems as though I don't see a lot of free-lensing (Seeing as you restricted me). So I challenge you to do a free-lensed tilt-shift of a landscape/cityscape/scenic-area.

 

Your Push Partner,

Danny

 

Eek! The idea of freelensing absolutely makes me want to poop my pants. All that potential for dust and moisture! Inside your camera! I have tried SOOOO hard with this all week and just haven't nailed this challenge so far. This is the best, but it's not tilt shift and only really looks good in the thumbnail. I could really do with an extra hand, I think. This week was NOT the week to lose the plate from my tripod. Ho hum. I have one more day I could try, but I don't know what we're doing yet tomorrow, so I thought I would post this, so Danny at least knew I had tried. Sorry Danny, and here's wishing you more success than I have had.

 

 

 

 

Done