Image of the Week...Week#9

Entry period will be from Sunday to Sunday, with this week closing on the 18th August.
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 David Ware, who is a prolific poster of high quality shots.

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.

I'll kick off again, with a rare self portrait.
Why Worry
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2864/9...b4546e43_b.jpg
Why worry by Steve's Life, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.

Great shot Steve! I saw that one on your Flickr photostream and thought you did a good job capturing yourself.

Portrait (couldn't decide between the two):

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2866/9...64a14eaf_c.jpg
Dakota Grey - A Basket of Love by budrowilson, on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2832/9...1e1aaabc_c.jpg
Dakota Grey - Weighing In by budrowilson, on Flickr

Landscape:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7448/9...9a5002f0_c.jpg
Dakota Grey's New World by budrowilson, on Flickr

This shot is just 8 hours old.... a pair of Perseids from last night's show. I was up for two hours, with the camera shooting continuously, before snagging this great reward. I was trying different settings through the night, starting with 30 seconds at ISO 400, then 15 seconds at ISO 1600, and finally 8 seconds at ISO 3200 (which is this shot). Of course the higher the ISO, the brighter the meteors will appear. I used my spiffy new 24 mm f/1.4 prime, wide open. This view is just a half mile from my front door, by the way.... I do like living here!

"Perseids over Canmore"

http://www.huyerperspectives.com/Lan...A39Q7116-L.jpg

@Jonathan: That's a really cool shot of the Perseids. I had some plans myself to try to get a shot of them, but yesterday night was all overcast/rainy. Thanks for sharing!

Very cute!!

I can imagine both parents standing just out of the frame ready to jump if the baby moves :) Or, at least, that's what I would do...

Edit: About Sean's 2nd picture (and 1st too)

Landscape: dry, very dry

http://photos.deghaye.com/photos/i-g...-g6Ts3df-L.jpg

Portrait: coffee - Italian style

http://photos.deghaye.com/photos/i-S...-SdS2VZ9-L.jpg

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Originally Posted by Steph

Very cute!!

I can imagine both parents standing just out of the frame ready to jump if the baby moves :) Or, at least, that's what I would do...

Edit: About Sean's 2nd picture (and 1st too)

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You're exactly right! The baby's mother and father were just out of the frame on both sides with their hands up just in case. :-)

It will be my pleasure to judge this weeks selections. I'm sure it's going to be difficult. Looking forward to everyone's entries!

Steve, you're cute, but the Coffee Girl is a tad cuter. You know my thoughts on your self portrait already; one of your best!

Jon, you nailed the Perseids! Great work. Does Canmore stand for "CANnon can do MORE?"

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Huyer

...I used my spiffy new 24 mm f/1.4 prime, wide open.

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Really cool shot. I have been think a lot lately of taking pictures like the one you posted here, and it is that desire that has put this lens at the top of my wish list. However, I may have to opt for the sigma 18-35 f/1.8 instead since it seems to look better on a crop body based on Bryan's testing, and his review he posted today. Again... well done, and well worth the couple of hours.

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Originally Posted by erno james

Jon, you nailed the Perseids! Great work. Does Canmore stand for "CANnon can do MORE?"

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Thanks! You could be right, but I'm also curious if living here makes me a Canmoron..?

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Originally Posted by conropl

Really cool shot. I have been think a lot lately of taking pictures like the one you posted here, and it is that desire that has put this lens at the top of my wish list. However, I may have to opt for the sigma 18-35 f/1.8 instead since it seems to look better on a crop body based on Bryan's testing, and his review he posted today. Again... well done, and well worth the couple of hours.

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Thanks Pat, and yes that lens review does look very good! You're probably right that the 18-35 would be better for the crop body. The 24 mm prime is just barely wide enough for sky shots on a full-frame body, but I'm definitely happy with it.

Landscape

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...0/IMG_2682.jpg


Portrait

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...0/IMG_2821.jpg

portrait
i call this one "howdy"
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3716/9...60a6ef0c_b.jpg
_MG_6837-3 by sedwards679, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by Steve U

I'll kick off again, with a rare self portrait.
Why Worry
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2864/9...b4546e43_b.jpg
Why worry by Steve's Life, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.

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Fantastic shot Steve. I wish my self portraits looked as compelling. Great work!

Steve, that self-portrait is superb and should be entered in many contests! A sure winner IMO!

Landscape
After The Rain

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2892/9...f3de7696_o.jpg
After The Rain by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

Thank you Denise and Brian, but you guys probably just don't worry enough. :cool:
The treatment and processing on that rose is just superb Denise.

...and thank you, Steve!

Here is my portrait attempt from a zoo in Norway. I don't often post nowadays, too busy. But I follow the threads to get inspiration.

Lars
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The treatment and processing on that rose is just superb Denise.

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I agree, it looks great and very natural. What did you do and with what? I'm willing to give it a try one of these days.

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Originally Posted by Steph

I agree, it looks great and very natural. What did you do and with what? I'm willing to give it a try one of these days.

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Thank you! This is a photo of a rose from my garden. I used the "quick selection tool" in CS6 to remove the rest of the rose bush and used a painterly texture by French Kiss set at normal blending mode for the background. I believe I also added another layer of the texture over the entire image at very low opacity with a soft light blending mode.

Landscape... "Out to Sea"

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3772/9...e5759c78_b.jpg
small-5796 by kayaker72, on Flickr

This is an image that I took almost a year ago, but recently learned how to use Adobe Camera Raw to process HDR shots to look much more realistic than what I've been able to do with Photomatix. So, I gave it a try on the set of shots that went into this pic. Here's the result, an old but new landscape.

Lockett Meadow Morning

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3673/9...e35a7414_c.jpg
Lockett Meadow by B_R_T, on Flickr

Well, it looks like it's time for me to pick my winners, and it was no easy task. Everyone had great entries, but in the end, I decided to go with Jonathan's gorgeous shot of this months meteor shower, "Perseids Over Canmore" and Steve's extremely well executed self portrait, "Why Worry"

Once again, great entries by all of you, I had a fun time judging this. On to the next week!

Great photos this week and congratulations to the winners.

Congrats Jonathan and Steve....well done!

Thank you David, very astute judging. lol. If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to give everyone a go at judging, so we all get to experience the pressure, but more importantly we see a nice cross section of images presented in the monthly vote.
Congrats Jonathan.
Week#10 is up and running and please cast your vote if you haven't already in the image of the month#2.

Thanks David, and congrats to Steve too! I'm enjoying these challenges very much, and the photos are all quite spectacular.

Congrats Jonathan and Steve. You both had my votes too!