May Photography Competition

A place to discuss Photography and Photoshop, show off your skills and have the odd competition!
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May Photography Competition

Post by alexperkins »

Welcome to the May Photography Comp!!

With the summer approaching, a subject to reflect it is chosen!

The subject is Flowers

Get snapping!

Please resize your photos to 800 pixels wide MAX to enable everyone to view them without too much scrolling. Thanks

Please also list what camera, lens, ISO, shutter speed and aperture you used when taking the photo. Thanks!


RULES:
One Entry Per Member
All images must be your own work
All entries must be recieved by Midnight, Monday 30th June 2008
After this time, I will start a poll listing all the photos).
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Post by alexperkins »

Everyone ok with the subject this month? lol
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Post by s-l-i-x »

Sounds good! *gets camera into macro mode* lol. I'd better get snapping!
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Post by alexperkins »

Come on people entries?
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Post by Ollie_R »

Image[img]

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ8
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/100 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh
Date and Time: 2007:09:30 16:33:22
Host Computer: Mac OS X 10.4.9
YCbCr Positioning: Centered
Exposure Program: Normal
Date and Time (Original): 2007:09:30 14:22:33
Date and Time (Digitized): 2007:09:30 14:22:33
Maximum Lens Aperture: 30/10
Metering Mode: Pattern
Light Source: Fine weather
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Sensing Method: One-chip colour area sensor
Compression: JPEG
XMP Date and Time (Original): 2007-09-30T14:22:33+01:00[/img]
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Post by Chally_Rai »

alexperkins wrote:Come on people entries?
I don't do flowers, flowers are for Gurrrrls... bleugh

:P
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Post by pip_polo »

i have one for this month, just awaiting the arrival of my photoshop alex :lol:

and how much info ollie :shock: lol
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Post by alexperkins »

oh come on flowers are good for photography. Good chance for macro use!
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Post by Tim_GTi »

Ohh i have a collection somewhere very compatible to this competition 8)
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Post by Jamoygti »

Thought i'd whack this one up!

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Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Standard 18-55mm
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/999s
Focal Length: 38mm
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Post by Bryony84 »

Heres my entry for this month. Its a passion flower, apparently they have some kind of religious significance, mum keeps going on about it, lol!

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Post by Tim_GTi »

That's awseome Bryony! It's so perfectly focussed it doesnt even look real!
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Post by Bryony84 »

I know what you mean, keep thinking its plastic but its definitely not, lol
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Post by Tim_GTi »

What lens did you use? The depth of field is brilliant!
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Post by Bryony84 »

Would probably have been the 55-200 lens on my old d50, was taken a little while ago.
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