Themed Photo Challenge #3 - Work

[Dave Humphries]

This challenge's theme is: Work
The closing date will be: 16th April 2010
Theme announcement date was: 3rd March 2010

There are a few rules;
A) Photographs must be shot after the theme was announced
B) Photographs should be posted in this thread before the closing date (don't leave it too late)
C) If a person enters more than once, each entry should be in a separate post
D) Please include your theme suggestion for a future challenge, if you win, this may be used
E) No voting for your own photograph(s)

Voting;
When announced, voting (open to any member) will be by Private Message (PM) to Dave Humphries, over a period of two days. This will ask you to state your favourite three photographs in '1st, 2nd, 3rd' order, just as the Monthly un-themed challenge does. Scoring will be done the same '3, 2, 1' points way.

Theme choices;
The theme suggestion of the person that entered the winning photograph will normally be used in the next announcement.

Good luck,

[RonH]

Voting number V2

Lets get the ball rolling ...

[Geoff F]

Voting number V3

I have a choice over which piece of equipment to use today. Which would you use?



Still desperately waiting for the rain to stop; so I have finally had a go at at indoor shot.

[RonH]

16 days 'til closing ... are you all shy ?? Maybe this is 'lost' in the maze of current comps?

[Geoff F]

Yes that is what I was thinking, Ron.

I will add another photo in the hope it will spur on some of those excellent photographers who can do a lot better!

[Geoff F]

Voting number V4



Still raining. Just the weather for a bit of marine engineering; wet with a gale blowing.

I was, rather gingerly, leaning over the quayside with my 'rough use' 10D & 28-135 lens. At ISO 800, I managed 1/125 at F8 but ideally would have preferred F11 or smaller.

Even in the gloom the yellow oilskin is giving a bit of glare so I had a couple of goes at some 'clever' editing but ended up preferring this simple edit as I think the darker rather gloomy light captures the moment better.

[arith]

Rough use a 10D That engine looks rough.

[Geoff F]

Yes it is a complete re-engine job. But keeping anything looking pristine in a small fishing boat is impossible.

Most of the time I use a 40D and 24-105 lens for general shots like this but always keep my old equipment in my vehicle for riskier use. I consider that leaning over the quayside while being buffeted by a strong wind constitutes a risky shot. If the worst was to happen, I may 'bounce' on the concrete but my camera gear could suffer irrepairable damage!

[ScoutR]

Voting number V5

[carregwen]

Voting number V6

I don't know what it is. Sounded OK though.

[Geoff F]

I think it is probably keeping his dinner warm!

[wilgk]

Voting number V7

[arith]

Voting number V8

[RonH]

Voting number V9

Any strong men out there to split this for me

[Colin O'Regan]

Voting number V10

[Colin O'Regan]

Oops! Didn't mean as a reply to Hard Yaka, sorry.
Rookie here.

[ScoutR]

Oops! Didn't mean as a reply to Hard Yaka, sorry.
Rookie here.

Colin: don't worry, everyone does the same thing. If you click on Edit Post and then at the bottom click on Go Advanced you will see the Title textbox which you can then edit from Hard Yakka to the title of your choice.

Nice shot by the way

[Donald]

Voting number V11


40D, 70-200 f4 L IS @ 200mm. ISO 100. 1/80@f6.3. Circ Pol. Manual. Spot. 1.00pm, April 11th.

This was really hard. What idiot thought of 'Work' as the theme title?

[Dave Humphries]

Hi all,

Just a timely reminder that it is the last two days for your entries to this themed competition!

Only 10 so far ...

Cheers,

[arith]

Voting number V12

Taken 17/3/2010 and is one of those HDR thingy's that I don't often do now.