Photo competition #08

[PSi]

Thanks, one and all, for liking my bugs on a string.
The topic for photo competition #08, on from now until Feb 21st, is Amazing Grace


Rules..

1. The challenge is to capture and depict graceful motion in a still photograph ... water, air, machines, people, an animal, if it moves gracefully, snap it but don't freeze it .. too much.

2. 1 photos allowed, taken any time, must be your own work.


See here for the general rules (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/camera-corner/82504-photo-comp-rules.html).

I will be moving around in Borneo over the next two weeks so may not be able drop by here as often as I'd like so enjoy ...

[300+]

http://www.reddock.net/aulro/DSC05822edit1024.jpg

Taken over the Christmas break on Mount Tambourine.

Cheers, Steve

[Bushie]

I will be away over the weekend, so as usual, voting commences at 10pm Sunday.
Back to collate the votes for Tuesday. :D:D



Martyn

[Chucaro]

Steve, you are in a roll. the photo is very nice and with excellet exposure control.

Post one for me :p

Cheers

[300+]

Thanks for your kind words Arthur. I find that pic is sensitive to calibration. My desktop looks great with it - it is currently my wallpaper. My laptop (also calibrated but with poor dynamic range) looks washed out and muddy. The lichen highlights are dull, etc. I'll have to tell my boss to get me a better laptop next time!

Somebody else please enter. I don't want to win by default!

Cheers, Steve

[Chucaro]

Steve did you have done a print proof of this image? I think that it would be a good idea.

for the last 6 months or more I do not have the chance to dedicate much time to photography and for that reason I do not participate in the compos as I would like to do it.

but because no other member have posted an image I am posting this image that I am not sure if meet the requirements in the compo.
The Paleheaded rosella was captured in my back yard.
Nikon D200
1/200s f/5.6 at 240.0mm iso800
Cheers

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/710.jpg

[WhiteD3]

Hawk and the IFC building in Hong Kong, July 2009.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2843/ifcbuildinghongkong.jpg

[Chucaro]

I just wonder if the bugger it is nesting at the top of the building?
Nice image mate!

[300+]

Steve did you have done a print proof of this image? I think that it would be a good idea.


What is a print proof? Proofs to me are a print version of thumbnails which you choose the ones to make full size prints from.

Cheers, Steve

[300+]

My office is that building!

Cheers, Steve

[Chucaro]

What is a print proof? Proofs to me are a print version of thumbnails which you choose the ones to make full size prints from.

Cheers, Steve

You do your final PP to your image acording to the printer that it is going to do the job and then print a A4 proof and see if the printer can replicate your calibrated image on the screen.

You can have in PSCS3 a soft proof on the monitor if you trust it.

If you are happy with it then save the final version.

I am sending my tiff files with open layers to a person that does all the work for me. He print an image according to his Monitor/printer and send it to me for my approval.

[werdan]

Just to get back to 'Amazing Grace' :)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/707.jpg

[mowog]

Taken in Nov 2008.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/705.jpg

[300+]

You do your final PP to your image acording to the printer that it is going to do the job and then print a A4 proof and see if the printer can replicate your calibrated image on the screen.

You can have in PSCS3 a soft proof on the monitor if you trust it.

If you are happy with it then save the final version.


Well...

It looks like crap with soft proofing and looks like a very similar version of crap with the printed copy. So what do I need to do here? Calibrate my printer (which my Spyder 2 kinda does)?

If I edit the image until it looks good in print (or soft proof) then it will look bad on the monitor and on other's monitors.

What now?

Cheers, Steve

[Chucaro]

Well...

It looks like crap with soft proofing and looks like a very similar version of crap with the printed copy. So what do I need to do here? Calibrate my printer (which my Spyder 2 kinda does)?

If I edit the image until it looks good in print (or soft proof) then it will look bad on the monitor and on other's monitors.

What now?

Cheers, Steve

I will sending soon a PM

[Chucaro]

Steve, before you are going mad make sure that you have the proper printer profile for the paper that you are going to use.
I can telling you that the person that do my prints for customers have an apple computer and monitor well calibrated and inspecial room so the light on it does not change the view on the monitor during PP
Also he have a $ 6000 Canon printer and individual profiles for each type of paper.
My work is close but the only way for him to produce the image that I like is for me to send the images in Tiff with all the layers open!!

If you calibrate your monitor during the night and do the PP during the day chances are that the calibration is not good. :(

For that reason I relay on the pros to do my work ;)

Cheers

[DeanoH]

Didn't even know I had this one till I started looking. Taken on Brampton Island Qld.

Blue Tiger Butterfly

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/642.jpg

Nikon D80, f8, 1/250, ISO100, focal length 66mm


Deano:)

[DeanoH]

Resized it down from 800X800 to 600X600. Forgot about people with 1024X768 monitors. Did this on Photobucket's site. Don't reckon the result is as sharp as the original.

Deano:)

[dmdigital]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/353.jpg

Creek below St Columba Falls, Tasmania.
August 2009, Nikon D200, Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8 and B+W ND110, 30" exposure, 24mm f/11.

[Chucaro]

Very nice!!! Can I have a lend of the 24-700 lens :D

[dmdigital]

Thanks Arthur, and no you can't:p

It's the 24-70 really and you'd have to prize it off the camera!

This would be my most used lens especially now I've gone over to FX. I don't know why people complain about the lack of VR, it's a fantastically balanced close focusing and fast lens.

[Chucaro]

Thanks Arthur, and no you can't:p

It's the 24-70 really and you'd have to prize it off the camera!

This would be my most used lens especially now I've gone over to FX. I don't know why people complain about the lack of VR, it's a fantastically balanced close focusing and fast lens.

For landscaping I use the Tokina 12-24 which it is not a VR and I do not need VR for this type of photography because i use the tripod 95% of the time.

On the D300s the 24-70 in many cases will restric to much the angle, nevertheless is a very nice glass.

Cheers

[bblaze]

saturday sunrise shot
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/554.jpg
cheers
blaze

[Bushie]

Comp now closed, votes can be placed in this thread until 10:00pm Tuesday night.


Martyn

[dmdigital]

1. 300+
2. WhiteD3
3. Chucaro

[mowog]

1. dm_td5
2. 300+
3. WhiteD3

Is it possible to add a Poll to these threads for voting?

[WhiteD3]

1) DeanoH
2) dm_td5
3) Chucaro

[p38arover]

1. dm_td5
2. 300+
3. WhiteD3

Is it possible to add a Poll to these threads for voting?

Yes, but not until after it's closed as you need all the entrant names. Even then only Mods could do it.

[DeanoH]

1/ dm_td5
2/ Chucaro

[Chucaro]

1)dmTd5
2)300+
3)bblaze

[PSi]

1) dmTd5
2) 300+

[Armadillo]

1) 300+
2) DeanoH

[werdan]

1. Chucaro
2. DeanoH

[dullbird]

1. dm_td5
2. 300+
3. WhiteD3


Is it possible to add a Poll to these threads for voting?

been there discussed that not an option if you have more then 10 entries:)

[dullbird]

1) 300+
2) dm_td5

[bblaze]

1 - chucaro
2- 300+

[Bushie]

Winner for this week - dm_td5

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/02/353.jpg

dm_td5 - Congratulations - You now have the honour of thinking of a new topic for competition #10 to finish on 7th March. The new topic can be posted up anytime between now and Saturday.


Martyn