Mini Competition #70

Here's how it works ...

- You good folks post images in the thread (please change your post title to a name for your picture)

- When we get 10 images we will attach a voting poll

- After 3 days the poll closes and the winner is declared!

- If you would especially like some critique after the competition poll closes, please make it known in the post

Too easy eh?

Limit of 1 image per post, and 2 image posts per person.

If there are already 10 in the current comp, please start a new thread in this forums.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/...47f9d3c0_b.jpg

Took this of my friend practising some night shots.



https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...achmentid=2181

http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/v...OW/solo_up.jpg
Taken at Dayton Airshow in August '09.
50D 360mm ISO 800 f/8 1/800"

Snapped in Shark Bay, Australia ... hopefully not 'snapped up' :eek:

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...achmentid=2199

I took this on a recent trip to Morroco. Difficult shooting conditions, but I am fairly happy with the result.
Walshy

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...p;d=1264657047

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/...3114de6f_o.jpg

Captive Horned Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) at the Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska.

Minimal PP - "levels" and saturation in ACR, cloned out distracting bits of bird you-know-what on rocks in background and USM in CS4. C&C welcome.

Thanks!

For wedding & Funeral

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...theghost-1.jpg

Iwanbogor
I'm seeing a message that your image has been moved or deleted.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...achmentid=2233

Or how to ruin a nice picture :rolleyes: Another old bridge I found in my travels for Bridge that Gap

Jan-23-2010
Nikon D3000: 18-200mm: 1/60s: f5: ISO 100: 55mm
820 x 822

Here is my entry: Glory from Heaven


This is a rather difficult and also a bit risk shot. I probably won't do it again. I arrived the coast in the late afternoon with a hope to have nice sunset lighting. But the sky was unsettled instead. I got very close to the edge, waiting for waves. Then a huge wave crashed against the cliff causing a 15 meter high surge, which I witnessed and captured with a slow shutter speed.


https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...5&d=1264668070

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Yan Zhang

This is a rather difficult and also a bit risk shot.

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I think we have a competition for the understatement of the year.

Okay, we can close the thread now. This quote wins.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From the front window after an early spring storm...

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...p;d=1264732075

Attachment 2246

That's 9, if we don't count Iwanbogor's missing image.

It's now up

For wedding & funeral

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...a/theghost.jpg

Okay, that is 10 up now. Off to https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo....htm#post32797

Errr. Forgot to mention, but I really need some C&C on this shot.

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Originally Posted by Sahil

.... I really need some C&C on this shot.

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Okay! For me, this is the best image you have posted, Sahil. I like it very, very much. And it has a powerful documentary feel to it, in that it is giving us information about the life of a young person in India.

I think you have a nice balance in the composition, between the bundle of hay/straw on the cart and the bundle against the wall at the back of the image.

I would make two suggestions for you to consider:

1. Cloning out the dark upright stem at the bottom left
2. Putting in some Local Contrast Enhancement, masking it and painting it back onto the straw only. That, I think, would give it a bit more 'pop'

Thanks, Donald. Cloning can be done, but I am not very good with LCE. :(