View allAll Photos Tagged 2018photochallenge
Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge 2018 Week 22: Pet Portraits.
This is our Handsome Siamese named Chai...he wasn't too keen on me following him around with the camera when I should have been putting food in his bowl! LOL
Saint Johann Baptist, Munich, 2018
This is a church close to my place, it is by far the tallest building in my hood the Haidhausen quarter in Munich, Germany.
Jan 6th 2018 • Ricoh GR • f/5.6 1/125s ISO 100
Cropped and adjusted the lighting to show off the texture in my nearly ready to bloom Lenten Rose. Comments welcome,
Canon EOS Rebel T6
EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
ƒ/5.6 55.0 mm 1/13 secISO200
#10thanniversaryphotochallenge #2018photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura
2018 WEEK 01: 2008 FLASHBACK – MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Fort Collins made a commitment more than a decade ago to upgrade the downtown alleyways. This was one of the first to be renovated in 2006. It is also happens to be home to my favorite artist cooperative in town – my happy place for creative inspiration. www.trimblecourt.com
The challenge:
This is a storytelling/editorial Photo Challenge. Don’t be afraid to focus on the small things that are unique to your region and/or your locality.
My process:
I had a difficult time coming up with a subject this week. At first I wanted to capture the herd of deer that “lives” in our neighborhood. But it is impossible to get them to pose where I want them – which would have been important because the majority of our landscape is brown, brown and more brown. I thought about a B&W image, but that would have meant no wiggle room in the composition and that concerned me. So my thoughts turned to downtown Fort Collins – the place I go when I want to stop being a hermit.
I had gotten a tip that the fountain in Old Town Square was still running and had a nice layer of ice around it, but when I got there to photograph it, my access was limited due to a temporary skating rink. The angle I did have on it meant that the lighting was less than ideal. So I went with my backup plan – the brightly lit alleyway just a few steps away.
There was a huge range in tonal ranges from the black sky to the brightly lit windows of Trimble Court Artisans, so I opted to bracket three images and combine them into an HDR image in post processing. I had hoped to capture some people in the alleyway (there were plenty who walked through), but my slow shutter speed pretty much turned them into a blur. (You can see a reddish blur a ways down the alley – and also the ghost like image of a person shopping inside the store.)
OTOH, I did remember to leave enough room around the edges of my composition to adjust the perspective of the buildings. (My lesson learned in our photochallenge just last week.) Yay me!
Lessons learned:
If I had been thinking more clearly (and not rushing off to another commitment), I would have tried taking some photos with people more visible so that I could composite them into the photo. I probably would have needed to adjust the aperture and/or ISO to get a clear enough image, so that might have made compositing a challenge, but it sounds good in theory.
As I was writing my “story” about this photo, I realized that it would be fun to do a “downtown alleyways” photo project. I have always loved photographing them and they look different in daytime vs night and throughout the different seasons. Hmmmm…
CC appreciated.
I've been holding this a few days. It's not great photography but has great sentimental value to me. I have 9 sheep and a miniature donkey. Six of the nine are mother/daughter pairs. They are the six ewes whose faces can be seen in this photo. Leftmost is Clarinet. Her mother CoCo Chanel is on the right. Second from left is Tresor. Her daughter Tympani has the straight up horns. Third from left is Calliope. Her mother, Bella, is beside her. Contentedly grazing behind are LaVerne (face not visible) and their guardian. Fiona. Dulcimer and Flora missed this frame. Canon EOS Rebel T6
EF75-300mm f/4-5.6
ƒ/4.0 90.0 mm 1/100 sec ISO 200
#2018photochallenge
Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge WEEK 6: Macro Texture
I got up close and personal with one of my paintings this week. I used my tripod, lit things up with the flashlight of my cell phone, and used an Opteka 10x diopter atached to my 18 - 55mm kit lens.
Please excuse the pun. :P
-
To start off the year, this week's photo challenge was "my neighborhood." I live in pretty much the middle of nowhere. I am on a gravel road that only a few people live on. Right across the road from my house is a field with horses, cows, and donkeys. I knew when I saw the title of this challenge that I wanted to get a picture of one of the animals in the field. I was lucky enough to have one of the horses looking at me from this position on the other side of the barbwire fence, allowing me to get this cool shot of him and the cows in the background. :)
I've been so torn about what to post. I've settled on the birch trunks. They are so dramatic in day light. Lightly cropped color removed with windows 10 photo editing. comments welcome.
Canon EOS Rebel T6
EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
ƒ/11.0 55.0 mm 1/320 sec ISO 200
#2018photochallenge
NOTE: I know I am almost a week late on posting this, but I did take the picture when the challenge was going on.
As I was taking a walk with my camera I noticed off in the grass a leaf that was sticking up with the light shining through it. Knowing this was a perfect opportunity for the macro texture challenge, I got down low and took a bunch of shots, with this one being my best.
The challenge:
This week’s challenge stars our pets and other animals! It’s a pretty straightforward one: shoot an image of your favorite animal looking at us. No other restrictions, both color and black and white are fine. The real challenge is finding a suitable subject and making it face you in some way.
My process:
It’s been a while since I’ve had the luxury of spending a few hours on a challenge photo. Our house is pet-less at the moment, so I knew immediately that I wanted to take a photo of one of the resident deer in our neighborhood. My first couple of attempts were disappointing at best due to harsh lighting or uncooperative subjects. (Where were the deer that sit just 5 feet from my garage door and sit calmly staring at me when I open it? Never there when I need them!)
Luckily, I saw a Facebook post from a neighbor with video of a deer giving birth. I had to wait for a rain shower to clear out, but based on past experience watching the entire birthing process in previous years, I knew that the deer would most likely still be there.
My ideal shot would have been the mama deer looking at me with one or both of the fawns in the frame. While I did get a few shots with the mama looking at me, I had two things working against me: (1) the fawns were oddly positioned in the frame and (2) strong shadow lines made for very challenging lighting. After the first minute, the mama deer lost interest in me and never looked at me again. Rather than continue to bother her, I decided to simply wait and see what transpired.
One of the fawns was much more adventurous than the other and took a couple of wobbly walkabouts away from the mama. One of those was straight towards me. When the fawn stopped and tried to look back towards the mama deer, I watched it wobble back and forth until it stuck its hind leg out for balance. When it looked back in my direction, I snapped my shot.
The shade made for nice soft light, but it was also limited how much light I had to work with. Since I was without a tripod, I set the shutter speed fairly high to prevent motion blur which in turn require a high ISO. I did my best to process the photo, but I felt like something was still lacking. Then I saw a “painted” photo that @StephAdams had posted and was inspired to try something similar.
After a bit of searching on YouTube, I found this very helpful Photoshop tutorial: youtu.be/n5v8p87hcYg In particular, I like that the presenter, Blake Rudis, used to be a painter so the resulting image is more than a simple filter.
I combined the “painted” layers with my original photo to create a blended image. I also punched up the saturation to give it more of a painted feel. All in all, I’m happy with my first attempt at this technique, and I’m curious to explore it further.
Lessons learned:
-I found that a heavy handed noise reduction before using the oil painting technique worked best.
-I need to upgrade my computer hardware. It’s so old that I couldn’t run the Photoshop Oil Painting filter on my system - I had to borrow my husband’s laptop for that part. I guess it’s time to get serious about upgrading.
CC appreciated.