Mini Competition #70

[Sahil]

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.

[Sahil]

[Doughboy]

Took this of my friend practising some night shots.

[Jim B.]

Taken at Dayton Airshow in August '09.
50D 360mm ISO 800 f/8 1/800"

[RonH]

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

[Walshy]

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

[Terry Tedor]

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!

[Iwanbogor]

For wedding & Funeral

[Donald]

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

[ScoutR]

Or how to ruin a nice picture 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

[Yan Zhang]

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.

[Donald]

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

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

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

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

[Taktell]

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



Cabin.jpg

[Donald]

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

It's now up

[Iwanbogor]

For wedding & funeral

[Donald]

Okay, that is 10 up now. Off to Mini Competition #71

[Sahil]

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

[Donald]

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

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'

[Sahil]

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