Mini Competition #2

[Colin Southern]

Second Verse ...

Same as the First!

Here's how it works ...

- You good folks post images in the thread

- When we get 10 images I attach a voting poll

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

Too easy eh?

Limit of 1 image per post, and 2 image posts per person. Theme is nothing in particular, but should be appropriate to this forum (but I won't be getting too critical about this bit).

[Doughboy]

Let me be the first then....

[veloman]

Arwyn

[Dave Humphries]

Building a website


Nikon D5000 + Nikkor 18-200mm at 200mm, using on-camera flash, metering; Centre weighted.
1/60s @ f9.5 (Aperture Priority), ISO200, EC -0.5, FEC 0.

[carregwen]

Theme is nothing in particular, but should be appropriate to this forum (but I won't be getting too critical about this bit).

"joie de vivre"

[Maureen]

This was probably quite fashionable in it's day.

[Wirefox]

Rob

Nice lighting but the models seem a little too posed you need to talk to them more and get them relaxed. You may even persuade the one on the left to part with the M&S granny wear Also it may be best to get them to wear loose clothing for a couple of hours before the shoot. Those underwear imprints around the legs and arms are quite noticeable. You could be in the bucks if these two win the Eurovision next year.

[carregwen]

Rob

Nice lighting but the models seem a little too posed you need to talk to them more and get them relaxed. You may even persuade the one on the left to part with the M&S granny wear Also it may be best to get them to wear loose clothing for a couple of hours before the shoot. Those underwear imprints around the legs and arms are quite noticeable. You could be in the bucks if these two win the Eurovision next year.

It's not M&S (although it may be bordering on S&M) The girls came from an Oxfam shop. As for the body marks, I rubbed fake tan on them prior to the shoot... (sounds of Wirefox backing away rapidly)

[wjh31]

Heres a quickie then, taken just the other night from near box hill. On the right is Dorking, on the left in the distance is Crawley/Gatwick/Brighton, not sure which as they are all in that direction. Moon is just out of frame above and to the left of centre.


Stitch of 10 1min, 35mm exposures, F8, ISO 200

[Jim B.]

[arith]

This panorama looks quite a challenge. Nice sky how did you do it??

[arith]

I always like close ups of aircraft in action, takes me back to my cadet days. They don't look more than six feet apart.

[wjh31]

This panorama looks quite a challenge. Nice sky how did you do it??

Was that meant for me?

[arith]

Yes, it is a rather large panorama isn't it, wjh31.

[wjh31]

Its about 40MP, full file here. However its pretty noisy due to exposure time and ISO, so you dont gain alot. Not really a challenge, half an hour with the camera on a tripod and the stitch time is short for so few pictures, the near gigapixel daytime version will probably get uploaded soon.

[arith]

Just for fun; "Noisy Duck"

[Andy]

.... FEC 0.

Nice catch.....the shiny new bits of web look superb Spider looks a bit bright though...try FEC -1?

[Andy]

A baby springtail:

(Dicyrtomina saundersi)

40D, MP-E 65mm at 5x and f/7.1 (effective aperture f/42.6). ISO 100 and 1/250th...can't remember FEC (at a guess -2/3rds). Subject around 2mm long.

[john w revie]

I will through this one in the pot



these short competitions seem to be generating a lot of interest
good idea Colin

[Colin Southern]

Hi Folks - no more images in this thread please (I can't add more than 10 options on a poll) - but - I've now started Challenge #3 - so let's carry on with new images there

And - most importantly - don't forget to vote for your favourite image in this poll!

Good luck to all