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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
11-10-2021, 08:49 PM
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Around here autumn brings shorter days and colder weather. Between work and the shorter days, I haven't had a chance to take any outside photos this week, so here's one of the pellet stove we heat our house with just getting going.
Kristian
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
11-09-2021, 04:15 PM
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
09-09-2021, 11:36 AM
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Project 52 continues with P52-10-1 beginning tomorrow. For this challenge I'll judge and announce the winner next Thur. The winner will then get to judge and announce the winner of the P52-10-2 challenge. If you have a theme or technique you would like to see in the Project please let me know. I'll try and have themes posted a month or two in advance so you can see what will be coming in the weeks ahead. Thanks, Don
The bokeh effect is produced when the foreground and/or background is intentionally blurred around a subject. Bokeh, meaning "blur" in Japanese, can be achieved by using adjusting a camera's aperture for a shallow depth of field. The bokeh effect is an aesthetic choice and tends to give images a dreamlike appearance.
As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for.
Photos for P52-10-1 are to be taken and posted between Sep 10 and Sep 16.
Rules:
1. Anyone and everyone who is interested in eligible. The goal continues to be
have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques with fellow
Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-10 thread for the week. Explain what
motivated you to take the picture or how it represents the weekly theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color
saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to
keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. Since this project is about technique, and not camera, shots taken by non
Pentax cameras are allowed. Cameras may be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot,
Medium Format, et cetera. But no phones, please.
6. There is one “Theme Concept” labeled “black and white,” but feel free to post
black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
7. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is
active to be eligible for judging.
8. Any picture taken from thread start date to listed closing date is acceptable.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-05-2021, 01:39 PM
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And the winner is Ramseybuckeye, wonderful shot of that dragon. Congrats Tom!
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
04-24-2021, 11:24 AM
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A complex mess
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
04-24-2021, 06:17 PM
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This photo was somewhat complex to set up. I went out to the South end of Topsail Island to shoot sunset and hopefully the colorful twilight when the sun dips below the horizon, but as luck would have it the sky was clear so it would not be that colorful. However the tide was coming in and I knew there would be a lot of tidal pools forming, I had been to this spot a few times before so I had an idea of some things I wanted to use, including sand patterns, dune grass, and tidal pools. There was a guy out there shooting with what appeared to be a large format camera, I wanted him in the photo. Before I took this photo I was down near where the guy was, so when I came back to the spot I took it from I had to be careful and not track up the sand. I also wanted to get other photos, so I was trying to work pretty fast. With no good sky the ground had to take up the lower two thirds, which was good as I had the growing tidal pools and the ripple marks on the sand/mud flats, and of course the dunes with the grass on the right. I found a spot where the photo appeared somewhat balanced with the photographer and the sun taking up spots about a third of the way in from the sides of the frame. I set the tripod up and composed to to get the ripple marks prominently in the foreground, and the the sky to take up only the upper third. I don't positively remember, but I think the tripod was set up at about 18 inches off the ground. The photo may have been better if I had waited until the sun dipped at least to the horizon, but I was afraid the photographer may move out of the frame (but he actually did not). I took several other photos that evening and got some other that I was happy with. Looking at this again next time I'm out there for sunset I may try to get a silhouette in front of the sun.
 Joy of Nature by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
11-18-2020, 11:10 AM
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I find bubble film images produce nice vibrant colors.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
10-20-2020, 11:00 AM
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Tanks for your submissions RGlasel and Noel. I found this a tough challenge because it means several different things to different photographers but I did learn something new about composition in the process.
Good contrapoint RG on several points: big-small, old-young, fixed-mobile,etc
My pick/fav is Noel's tonal element contrapoint image though.I like its simplicity and the red reflection.
You get to judge the P52-9-30 Noel.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
10-15-2020, 01:00 PM
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
09-20-2020, 03:45 PM
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Hi Tsukiouji,
Thank you for posting this beautiful article, it is one of the many techniques that enhance creativity not only in photography but in all Arts,
that's why never stop but always experiment.
Ciao Mario
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
10-02-2020, 05:08 PM
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An opportunity presented itself to me today to get something for this challenge. I went to a place I had never been before, mostly to shoot plants, once there I saw there were many butterflies and birds also, so I put the 55-300 PLM on (of course most of the butterflies and birds disappeared then) the camera. I came around a corner of the trail and saw two gray squirrels chasing each other, which is always fun to watch how fast they go. I did get this shot, 1/500 was almost enough to get them without blurring. That was about the best I could have got in the woods at that distance, ISO was on auto and went to 2500, which produced a little noise in this instance.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
10-03-2020, 01:14 PM
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Falling Pins and Clips
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
09-29-2020, 04:46 AM
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Nice abstract Tom but I like the waterfall scene more. Probably because I like waterfalls.
Good effort RG. You did get some leaves moving in the end. You can get long exposures in a dark room with a flashlight light painting your subject also.
Tom wins this technique challenge and get to pick the next winner.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
09-24-2020, 06:09 PM
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Here is one that is a little more of what I wanted. This is Shunkawauken Falls, near Columbus,North Carolina, it was hard to find, because I lost cell phone connectivity in the mountains; and the car’s GPS couldn’t find it. Up a mountain road with lots of tight switchbacks, but lots of houses up there, the road was well paved, but a couple of places were one lane, part of the outside lanes was washed away, maybe in the heavy rains they had a week ago. Anyway the road was so tight we drove by the falls on the way up., gave up and turned around, then spotted it on the way down. There was a pullover spot about 50 yards down from the falls. It is right by the road, in fact, it goes under the road and continues below. This picture is only of the part above the road, literally the tripod was leaning on the guardrail. It wasn’t as dangerous as it sounds because nobody is traveling that road much over 25 mph. I could not see the top of the falls, we were actually in clouds, that and the mist held the visibility down.
This is shot with the KP and 20-40 with a Haida Nanopro ND 1.2 16x filter. This is a SOOC jpg, I was shooting Raw+ today. We’re in a hotel tonight and just didn’t feel like using mobile Lightroom tonight, sometime that SOOC is just as good anyway. Shot at 1.3 second, F9, ISO 100. I expected to use a slower shutter speed, but you get a lot of diffused light in a cloud, just like fog. I went to a couple other waterfalls today, this was the first. I wanted to use this since you have both the moving water and moving mist to affect with the slow shutter speed. I would have liked to get a faster speed too, but really didn’t want to mess with the filter and get drops on the front element, thinking I could miss them, but I’m not sure there may be some on here.
 Shunkawauken Falls by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
09-27-2020, 10:49 PM
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My Apologies for this late notifications- I have been on leave. And the winner is djb47. with a wonderful popping starburst.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
08-23-2020, 10:56 AM
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This will do, failed attempts at getting some splashing drops, with beetroot vinegar and milk.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
08-22-2020, 05:34 AM
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Zoom blur
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-26-2020, 05:24 AM
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This will have to do!
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-24-2020, 07:13 AM
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This is about as framed as I get for this challenge. Shot through leaves and branches for the frame.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-18-2020, 08:25 PM
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I had to decide between two photos, one was a more conventional shot of a man walking his dog, framed by overhanging leafy branches, and this one of frames within frames. Naturally, I chose the less conventional one.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-09-2020, 08:08 AM
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Suburban rural landscape;
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-11-2020, 08:03 PM
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Not close to suburban rural landscape.:) North Saskatchewan River, taken from the Petrofka Bridge. I should have taken this early in the morning instead of a couple of hours before sunset, there was haze in the air and a CPL filter could only help so much.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-12-2020, 05:14 AM
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-12-2020, 08:53 PM
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I have taken a few landscapes this week, in fact just returned from taking some sunsets tonight. This one is from Friday morning, I got up early to get the dawn shots, but this one is more of a sunrise.
 Sunrise Light by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
07-17-2020, 07:24 PM
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Well, i think it is time to pick a winner for this challenge, thank you to djb47, noelcmn and ramseybuckeye for your very fine entries and for keeping this challenge going. I'm going to select Noel's Clouds at Zoo Lake, I like different and a low key landscape, with indirect sunlight from clouds in an otherwise very dark scene is definitely different. On to the next challenge P52-9-21 Technique: Frame it (naturally) - PentaxForums.com |
