18938: adrift by northy

18938: adrift

@lizhammond gave me a really interesting challenge for get-pushed this week... she has suggested that i give up control, and allow various components of my shot to be chosen at random... the idea being that various elements (camera, lens, settings and subject) would be written down on bits of paper and tossed into a hat to be picked at random...

because i am inherently lazy, i decided to use a random number generator instead... asking it to give me a number between 10,000 and 39,999... the first digit representing camera, the second lens, the third f stop or shutter speed, the 4th subject and the 5th whether colour or black and white...

for this image i had to use the canon, the 100mm lens, and a shuttespeed of 1/1000s... the subject was "adrift" in black and white...

comes a bit more alive on black...

@lizhammond - another one... :)
March 13th, 2016  
Beautifully done.
March 13th, 2016  
Lovely shot. Enjoy embracing the random.
March 13th, 2016  
i really like the result of the randomness :)
March 13th, 2016  
Very cool challenge! And I like your result.
March 13th, 2016  
funny i can see a lot of colour in this!
March 13th, 2016  
This idea is just great. Must tuck it away for the future. I love the isolation of the image here. Beautiful.
March 13th, 2016  
Looks awesome on black...great use of negative space
March 13th, 2016  
@rosiekerr tx... And yeah... I keep wondering if there's a group challenge / game here...
March 13th, 2016  
Great minimalist shot.
March 13th, 2016  
challenge met...cleverly done
March 13th, 2016  
amazing on black - great idea
March 13th, 2016  
Beautifully captured, love the simplicity. Oh yes, on black the swan just pops! Instant fav.
March 13th, 2016  
Very nice.
March 13th, 2016  
What about post processing? Was that allowed?
March 13th, 2016  
@gardencat no restrictions on that :)
March 13th, 2016  
Fabulous on black
March 13th, 2016  
gorgeously simple.
March 13th, 2016  
Lovely Shot works well on black shooting at that speed needs allot of light
March 13th, 2016  
This is such a great challenge; and a beautiful shot
March 13th, 2016  
Perfect!
March 13th, 2016  
Well done on the finalist spot, & thank you for your challenge as it got me there too! Good luck.
March 14th, 2016  
I'm only looking at this on my phone and will have to look again tomorrow on computer, but so far it looks hauntingly beautiful
March 15th, 2016  
Turned out great. Who would have guessed that random choices could result in such a great image?
March 19th, 2016  
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