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Helicopter

Active Assignment Weekly: Cinematic Photography

A cinematic photo is one which looks like a frame taken from a movie. There are no definite rules, but a cinematic photo should present some strong mood or emotion (happy, sad, fear, love, etc.), and tell some kind of story to the viewer.

 

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Spotted a helicopter yesterday, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, while shooting something else. So I dashed to the spot by which I knew I'd see it pass, then shot it a couple of times. I had fun in PP. Applied some gradients, especially to give it a dark frame; then did selective lens blur, which I learned from a tutorial. I toned down the saturation a bit.

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Uploaded on September 28, 2011
Taken on September 27, 2011