Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

[Harry]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

I was thinking along the same lines, we have similar ferries and similar weather!!

[coupekid]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Drat, that's a rethink for me then

Ha ha!
Great minds Stephen, Iam intrigued to see yours now!

[Pol]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

My interpretation is possibly stretching the concept slightly, but successful salons need erm.......mavericks like me. Okay, maybe they don't then...

I realise this isn't the critique forum but I just have to comment -sorry.

I love this one, wonderful lighting and beautiful processing. Some
lovely skin textures too.


Pol

[Archangel]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Oooh - I'm certainly glad not to have been a passenger on that day!

Ian (who can easily succumb to sea-sickness!)

Hi Ian,

I'm exactly the opposite of you. I like to be on a ship when the weather is heavy. I enjoy very much to be on a ship diving in the water (and coming out of course!). My best heavy sea trip so far has been with these huge Greek ferries doing the trips Greece-Italy. I was returning to Greece from UK driving for Christmas. Took the ferry from Ancona (Italy) to Patra (Greece) with 11 beaufort weather. OK, these ferries are huge and very new (made from 2000 and after). The 120 meter, 8 floor ferry was going up and down, left and right, the sea was climbing on the deck outside of the 7th floor and the wind was whistling like crazy. Many people were afraid though because the waiving was too much even for a big ship like that, so the captain had to open the flaps. The flaps actually behave like stabilizers (not optical image stabilzers of course!) and they actually multiply by 8 the ship's area coming in tough with the water. After the flaps were out it was amazing to see the ship in such a bad weather behave like it was screwed on top of the sea. Really a very nice experience of what new technology can offer.

Anyway, I like heavy sea and I also enjoy that with my little inflatable even better than just speeding on a calm sea.

[Ian]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

I realise this isn't the critique forum but I just have to comment -sorry.

I love this one, wonderful lighting and beautiful processing. Some
lovely skin textures too.


Pol

Lovely picture of a lovely lass - I did initially feel it was too light, but this almost high key style works well in this instance.

Ian

[Bearface]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

I realise this isn't the critique forum but I just have to comment -sorry.

I love this one, wonderful lighting and beautiful processing. Some
lovely skin textures too.


Pol

Heck..... I'm really flattered; thanks!

Cheque to the usual place then?

[Bearface]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Lovely picture of a lovely lass - I did initially feel it was too light, but this almost high key style works well in this instance.

Ian

Thanks Ian. It was a really basic se in the form of a single, raw strobe bounced off a large white wall, about six feet behind me. For a wide, even spread of light it's quite effective, the only downside being the photographer-shaped sillhouette which is inevitably produced in the catchlights...

[Ian]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Thanks Ian. It was a really basic se in the form of a single, raw strobe bounced off a large white wall, about six feet behind me. For a wide, even spread of light it's quite effective, the only downside being the photographer-shaped sillhouette which is inevitably produced in the catchlights...

I do most of my product photography simply by bouncing a camera mounted flash off the ceiling/wall, like this:

Multiple strobes and brollies will only give a marginal improvement for this purpose. I'm a great fan of simplicity!

Ian

[Pol]

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Cheque to the usual place then?

Ok but I'm only asking half the price this time seeing as I was the model ...... and you made such a good job of smoothing out my wrinkles.


Pol

[Autumn]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Seeing Pol's entry, reminded me of an image I took in Visby Sweden. This currency was being blown around inside a glass container outside a Government Building. It fascinated me and I took the photo in case I ever needed a "Movement" image. It wouldn't be any good, as there are too many reflections, but I thought I would show it to you as a bit of fun.

http://tinyurl.com/y96c4w

I call it Money Laundering

[Pol]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Seeing Pol's entry, reminded me of an image I took in Visby Sweden. This currency was being blown around inside a glass container outside a Government Building. It fascinated me and I took the photo in case I ever needed a "Movement" image. It wouldn't be any good, as there are too many reflections, but I thought I would show it to you as a bit of fun.

http://tinyurl.com/y96c4w

I call it Money Laundering

Hey, that's fascinating, especially as it's currency!

The image I entered was actually just a lucky opportunity. I'd already had another shot in mind and was working on it, one from my archives. I'd been beachcombing and was on the way back to the camper when I spotted the leaflet and spent firework being blown along near my feet - so I decided to see if I could manage to grab a shot before or blew out of reach.

It was handheld ....

ISO: 200 (lowest possible on an istD)
Tamron 28-300 at 63mm
Metering: Centre weighted
shutter priority: 1/25
Aperture: f/32
EV: -7

I got lucky with 2 out of about 10. The others all showed camera shake or were overexposed.


Pol

[Stephen]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Well after a bit of a rethink, cheers Ben I've come up with this shot taken today at a local lake. It was ideal weather for them, and some of the more skilled people were going at a helluva lick

[Goatsmilkuk]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

That cold water would make anyone want to stay on I would think

[spl]

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My contribution is a pic I took about 2 years ago of some Tibetan prayer flags.

[Mowgli]

Re: Fortnightly Salon Competition No 3

Had a couple of pictures in mind for this competition and finaly settled on "hitching a ride". the other one is in the gallery (and my kind of surfing!)