Ok. I'm not sure if I'm going to enter the challenge, but I thought I'd share my experiment from the day. My take on street watercolours.

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Interesting implementation; I would have never thought to try it with street shooting. Of the four, I like the last one the best. The red and yellow really bring me into the image.

My Choice would be between 2 and 4. I am leaning towards 2 color and contrast.

Great stuff!

Loving #2 & #4 - composition and beautiful watercolor effect. GP

#2 has beautiful colors!

These are really sweet - I really like #2 & #3. Great light - just the right amount of exposure, they each have a great watercolor look! The red in #4 direct center just doesn't do it for me (& I keep thinking big yellow bunny tail - sorry!).

I like #4. I could love all of them! i do like the contrasting colors and textures of these.

Chris

These are quite lovely. I am most drawn into #2 and #3. Hope you enter the challenge!

Gretchen

Great application! I am drawn to the face in #1.

Oh man, I really like #3. There's some real emotion in this set. Great job! :B

I would take number 2 and enter it. just the right level of abstract

Really appreciate all the feedback. Given there's more than a full week left in the challenge, I'll probably go out and see what else I can get. In any case, it's fun.

I like all of them - very cool interpretation and technique!

Great series, really hard to pick a favorite.

Thanks for digging this up Rock. I'm still doubtful I'll submit one as I think this is too derivative for the challenge. But it's been fun. Here are a few others I've captured this week. Love having learned something new.

For what it's worth I think I'm going to continue with this combined with something else I'm working on.

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Intriguing stuff - very appealing too! I really like the first one.

You say these are derivative. That (and the images themselves) imply that the effect you've created is not simply the "in-camera" motion, or the dual shot, dual layer technique blur/glow technique. But...

I really like what you've done and I'm curious about just what your processing is. Would you mind sharing your steps?

Very interesting use of orton effect. I love #2 & #4 !

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I think these are all stunning, very creative. I had wondered about urban shots, and whether or not they were "Orton enough"? But then the challenge is Orton Inspired, not Copy Orton, so I think these are bang on theme.

Originally Posted by billseye I really like what you've done and I'm curious about just what your processing is. Would you mind sharing your steps?

This is essentially all done in camera. I've experimented a lot with motion blur both at night and day. But mainly with a static camera position.

What this challenge inspired me to do was to put the camera into motion along with the subjects. All these shots were done in daylight with what I'll call a Landscape shooter's setup. Wide to normal angle lens (17-35 or 24-70) and stacked 8-stop neutral density and polarising filters. The shot I entered was 35mm, 5 secs, f/22, ISO 400. The objective was to get to a 1.5 to 6 second exposure on day lit sidewalks with as much contrast as possible. I also really wanted to avoid light trails as much as possible.

Taking the shot is basically about selecting the setting and waiting for a good subject to walk past and then following them from behind or walking backwards in front. It would certainly be easy enough to take a friend out with you to experiment to your heart's content.

The trick is to keep them essentially in the same spot on the frame for the duration of the exposure which becomes a lot about understanding your focal length and general aiming technique as it's pointless to look through the viewfinder while the mirror's up.

All post was done in Aperture to bring out the colours and textures. Each exposure was different so there's no particular technique for this.

Hope this gives you guys something to play with.