Photo Challenge for August 2009

[batman44]

Stuck????

[Dave Humphries]

Sub-zero

[TARI]

From Soca river





p.s.
Amazing fly, batman

[batman44]

From Soca river

p.s.
Amazing fly, batman

Thank you! I love your shot too! Your timing is awesome!

[kevinbythebeach]

Stuck????

This is a mosquito?..good shot whatever it is.

[batman44]

This is a mosquito?..good shot whatever it is.

Thanks!
I really don't think it's a mosquito, it was too big.... unless it's on steroids! LOL I think it's some weird kind of fly?????

[pixel pete]

My aunt and her beau.

[Colin Southern]

My aunt and her beau.

Hi Peter,

Nice shot - how do you think it would look with a little more of the gents hair detail revealed and a slight bottom crop to remove the top of the hand?

[Doughboy]

Here is an old Ford truck, rusting at a corner gas bar on the highway

[Doughboy]

A friends Rottweiler when I was camping up north with a few friends

[Doughboy]

And my last one for this challenge, this was on the side of a large old rusting engine for mining equipment, in an old historic town north of me in the mountains

[pixel pete]

Hi Peter,

Nice shot - how do you think it would look with a little more of the gents hair detail revealed and a slight bottom crop to remove the top of the hand?

Sounds good to me Colin. You get half my points if I win! By "gent's hair detail revealed," do you mean in photoshop lightened the hair or do you mean leave more room on the right to show more of his head?

[Doughboy]

I think he means to lighten it a bit, just to show a little more detail with the texture, instead of a sea of just black....nice shot tho

[Colin Southern]

Sounds good to me Colin. You get half my points if I win! By "gent's hair detail revealed," do you mean in photoshop lightened the hair or do you mean leave more room on the right to show more of his head?

Hi Peter,

I think that there's too many hair tones clipped to black (although I am on an uncalibrated and unprofiled screen just at the moment). I'd be interested to see it with a bit of "psudo fill light".

Update:

I've just tried a tweak ... lifted shadows and then added a little more contrast and a quick sharpen ...



The other thing I wanted to mention ... I think that in this kind of shot your copyright symbol tends to over-dominate the shot somewhat - just wondering if you hace any thoughts on that at all?

[pixel pete]

Sorry Colin,
The detail in his dark hair is not meant to be. I took a peek at the original. Attached is a screenshot of the LEVELS.

I don't think it bothers me as much as her hand, as you suggested. I'll live with it as it is. Unless you tell me, it's a sure fire winner then I'll consider working on it

[Colin Southern]

Sorry Colin,
The detail in his dark hair is not meant to be. I took a peek at the original. Attached is a screenshot of the LEVELS.

Hi Pete,

Was it shot RAW?

[pixel pete]

No Colin,
I don't usually shoot RAW especially when I'm "playing." Thanks for the fixes. Looks a lot better. I don't usually tweak until I print. Pictures bound for the net sometimes takes too much trouble and you still don't know what the end users monitor will display.

The copyright thing? I've vacillated between real subtle of hardly visible to this.

I guess I got tired of people "borrowing" my images especially hotlinking so this is what I do.

I don't go to the extreme of disabling hotlinking. You'd be surprised how even with a watermark like this, doesn't discourage people from doing so.

Sorry if it ruins the picture.

[Jim B.]

400mm f/5.6 ISO 400 1/640"

[john w revie]

Taken 22/08/09



John

[JK6065]

Cemetery in the mist

EXIF 1/800 F4.5 ISO 200