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18-JUL-2004 Jake Pratt

Brake Time *

Tulsa, Oklahoma

This is a simple wall clock made to look like a car's disk brake.
The angle made the clock more interesting than it would be normally.
Altered in PS to correct levels

http://www.pbase.com/jakepratt


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Guest 21-Jul-2004 09:02
I always thought the minute and hour hands were set to 10:10 (or thereabouts) to make it look like a smiling face!
This didn't scream "tilt" at me at first, perhaps because of the absence of numbers on the face, I see it now (duh!) but still think it's maybe a little too subtle.
OTOH, it doesn't induce the nausea of some of the seriously tilted images! Phil
Guest 20-Jul-2004 23:01
Ah, gotcha. The hour and minute were just displaying the current time. The second hand was the only one I really paid attention too.
Olaf.dk 20-Jul-2004 19:05
I was thinking more whether the position of the minute and the hour hands was intentional? If you look through watch and clock product catalogs, you'll notice that the hands are almost always at nine or ten past ten and the second hand is most often somewhere between 30 and 35. This makes for a graphically well balanced composition. This photo is different due to the tilt and the red "brake", so I am not saying you should have set it to 10:09:33. Actually I think it works pretty well the way you've done it! Did a different kind of clock shot myself in the patterns challenge which, due to the crop, needed the hands in a different position as well: [http://www.pbase.com/image/27220196 ] --Olaf
Guest 20-Jul-2004 18:14
Yeah, I played with a number of different shots. I was trying to capture the minute and hour and the second hand sweeping. Everything from 15 seconds down to 2 was tried and I finally decided on catching around 3 seconds of sweep point when the second hand "up" in my viewfinder.
Olaf.dk 20-Jul-2004 05:18
The blurred second hand is a very nice touch! Did you think about the position of the hands when photographing, or is this just where they happened to be? --Olaf