Image of the Week...Week#12

[Steve U]

Entry period will be from Sunday to Sunday, with this week closing on the 8th September.
Only two categories; Portrait and Landscape
Portrait- Anything with eyes, people, animals
Landscape- Country, town, city, sea, abstract, things (water drops, smoke, flowers, candles and so on)

Each category will have a winner each week and this week judged hopefully by John/Neuro our most respected adviser to anything to do with image reproduction. And I mean anything, from microscopic to 1200x's, Neuro has it covered.

Then a poll to sort out monthly winners.

Please supply a title for your image and what category you are entering in. Enter as many times as like, old or new images.
Start posting your new shots here.

[Steve U]

Another shot of our new pup in the back garden.

Portrait Angel
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/9648060967_807241c2e3_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steves_life/9648060967/)
Angel_10 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steves_life/9648060967/) by Steve's Life (http://www.flickr.com/people/steves_life/), on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.

[DavidWare]

Whippet or Greyhound, Steve?

[Steve U]

She's a whippet David. Sweet little girl.

[DavidWare]

Nice, my neighbor had one of those, great dogs!

Here's one of my entries.
"Milky Way Reflection"
http://i.minus.com/ibky0rEThNrPb6.jpg

[adhocphotographer]

Hey i'm having trouble attaching my photo... uploading it does not appear to work and it says my upload limit is 190k/image. any trick i should know about? :)

[erno james]

steve, you know i am enamored by whippets! man is that image perfectly exposed, composed, and clean!

David, great shot of the Milky Way...it's inspired me to give it a crack this weekend with my photo-buddies!

I took this shot last Sunday; Landscape category.
Prairie Burn
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3750/9653640352_c9315ca2e8_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ernogy/9653640352/)
Prairie Burn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ernogy/9653640352/) by ernogy (http://www.flickr.com/people/ernogy/), on Flickr

This had to be one the craziest sunset skies I've seen around here, or anywhere for that matter. All day long, the clouds were looking promising. You know, one of those days that you keep taking a look outside, hoping that conditions set up to make the golden hour worthwhile. Good fortune was with me as the sky became polychromatic as soon as the sun dipped below the horizon. It turns out these rich clouds were the prelude to a rare September storm in Folsom, CA.


Canon EOS 7D
Canon EFS 10-22 @ 10 mm
Exposure 0.6
f/11.0
ISO 100
LEE 0.75 hard stop GND

[DavidWare]

Here is a submission for the portrait section.
"Blue"
http://i.minus.com/iggfOoECWRb89.jpg

[Steph]

My portrait of the week: "Jeremy ready for school"
http://photos.deghaye.com/photos/i-HZSqP9Q/0/M/i-HZSqP9Q-M.jpg (http://photos.deghaye.com/Divers/The-Digital-Picture/n-BJwmk/i-HZSqP9Q/A)

[Jayson]

From a family session earlier in the week.
My portrait entry for this week... Swagger

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pq-PASS7AYU/Uilhx6RykfI/AAAAAAAAH90/2NKuXiMyCBQ/s800/2013_09_01_EOS%25207D_037579.jpg

[DavidWare]

Jayson, you can't see the picture, it says "Content Protected By Owner"

[UmiKaibutsu]

I climbed Mt Fuji last Sunday night at about 9pm, I didnt reach the summit by sunrise but I took these photos around Station 8 at 6am. Later, the summit was overwhelmed with fog and rain, as it rained a lot after sunrise, so summit pictures are moot. Sand, rain and 45knot gusts made anything difficult. It was actually raining in this picture slightly, and really cold and windy.

I guess this would be landscape. The photo is a landscape panoramic.

”富士山上りました”
http://foxy.ne.jp/images/photo/japan/fuji/fuji5000.jpg (http://foxy.ne.jp/images/photo/japan/fuji/fuji5000.jpg)

[conropl]

Landscape
Title: Lighthouse at Sunset

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7351/9684343740_a4f9ca257a_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/60479608@N05/9684343740/)
Manistee Lighthouse-6388 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/60479608@N05/9684343740/) by westmichigan (http://www.flickr.com/people/60479608@N05/), on Flickr

[Jayson]

Jayson, you can't see the picture, it says "Content Protected By Owner"

Man, must be a good one then. :) Sorry about that guys...fixing it.

[Kayaker72]

I spent part of the weekend kayaking in northern New Hampshire. We saw this guy at Lake Umbagog.

Portrait: "Bad Feather Day"

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/9683364873_e78eaf1b6d_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayaker72/9683364873/)
small-6407 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayaker72/9683364873/) by kayaker72 (http://www.flickr.com/people/kayaker72/), on Flickr

[Jonathan Huyer]

Brant - that's awesome. I also really like the Pileated Woodpecker on the Current Shots page. I Googled "Umbagog" to find the lake... it looks fantastic and in a great part of the world. I imagine it must also be a fine place to shoot the fall colours. Thanks for posting!

[Kayaker72]

Thanks Jonathan and great shot of the aurora, btw. Umbagog is a great spot...no Canadian Rockies, but great none-the-less. I may have to make it back up there for fall colors.... we'll see...another 3-4 weeks.

[bgood]

I just recently learned about frequency separation retouching and had to give it a try. So, here's a first attempt at using that technique on a pic of my wife. I only played the low frequency layer and refined the catchlight in her eyes (I haven't yet learned much about what to do with the high frequency layer). While the image is titled "She Said Yes" it's not the yes that you might think. She hates having her picture taken and I can't believe that she allowed me to take one, let alone post it. Anyway, here's my attempt and here's to her saying yes.

Portrait: She Said Yes

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/9688672411_9094eb19b3_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bthurgood/9688672411/)
She Said Yes (in color) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bthurgood/9688672411/) by B_R_T (http://www.flickr.com/people/bthurgood/), on Flickr

[UmiKaibutsu]

This is my submission for the thing with eyes, however, in the set I shot yesterday, there are many other objects with more interesting eyes. This is a dropbox link to the set. While I did scale down 2500x2500 I left quality jpeg 8 so the details are there if you download a full image.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w2owjzny1qx43hh/KQSNTAUvp-

Being a car collector and BMW fanatic I thought my father would enjoy these. The location is the 国営昭和記念公園 near 立川 in the suburbs of 東京。(Japan) I had to request permission to shoot with 2 light stands, umbrellas and strobes as this is inside a cultural center and museum. There was a lot of backlight on most of the items (in front of windows) and regular flash on camera had a bad effect. I am curious if anyone would take a moment to tell me what I could have done better. I shot about 100 items in 5 hours, moving stands and tripod constantly. I used 1/4 power and upped to full power on both strobes near the end. I wanted ISO 50 or 100 for the detail, shot at mostly F11 and 8 with mostly average 4 second shutter. I had to extend battery usage on the flash since I only had 1 set of spares for the cheapy flash and no extra for the 600exrt.

”どもどもありがとう” ("Domo Arigatou" (Mister Roboto))

http://foxy.ne.jp/images/photo/odd/BL3A6673e.jpg (http://foxy.ne.jp/images/photo/odd/BL3A6673.jpg)

I'll upload these to my site and change the dropbox link later. The artists name is Tanaka, I need to get his Bio which I forgot to shoot when I was there. He is a scuba instructor and obvious BMW enthusiast in Japan. I feel much of his work is being disregarded and that it should be shared among other facilities. The MET Japanese area in NYC could benefit from some of these things, as it is painfully lacking of works and is of small size. The thing that is incredible is the integration of mechanical and biological elements, which most artists using metal car parts never do.

[Kayaker72]

My Landscape entry for this week "Cloudy Day":

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/9701961354_85aac2bc7a_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayaker72/9701961354/)
small-6503 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayaker72/9701961354/) by kayaker72 (http://www.flickr.com/people/kayaker72/), on Flickr

[Steve U]

We'll close this off and await John's decisions.

[neuroanatomist]

Lots of great entries this week, meaning tough choices as usual.

For Portrait, I liked "Jeremy ready for school" by Steph - a simple portrait, but very well executed, nice pose and catchlights, and a wonderful expression captured.

For Landscape, the nod goes to Erno for "Prairie Burn" - great composition, excellent colors in the clouds, and I'll admit to a bit of nostalgia for when late summer meant rolling yellow-brown hills (very different here in New England).

Thanks, all...looking forward to Week #13!

[Steve U]

Thanks John, two excellent choices from a high class field. Congrats everyone.

[Jonathan Huyer]

Thanks John, two excellent choices from a high class field. Congrats everyone.

I agree --- Great choices, loved both of them. Congrats Steph and Erno!

[conropl]

I agree --- Great choices, loved both of them. Congrats Steph and Erno!

+1... congrats guys.

[Steph]

Thanks! I've just realised that I had been selected... 2.5 months later :o