CHAT: Weekend Competition 12-14 March - FILL THE FRAME

[Old Salty]

First again but it is already Friday here in Australia and being unemployed Ive got plenty of time on my hands.
This is a carved stone statue on a plinth above a swimming pool.
I havnt got any macro lenses so I took this with my 300mm zoom.Distance about 2 metres with a backdrop of dark tinted glass about four metres behind the subject.
Auto adjustment,cropping and sharpening applied.
Have fun everyone!!

[Forseti]

Salty, It is of course for oggalily as the theme setter to add further explanation if necessary but based upon what he wrote when setting the theme quote take a picture this weekend in which nothing but your subject (or a part thereof) is in the frame unquote I wonder if your image which includes some background is acceptable. I had something in mind that due to the form of the subject would, out of necessity, have also included a small amount of background, but as per the theme have had to come up with something else.

@ ogga - is the image that Salty submitted (with background) acceptable as per the theme? If so, this would allow me to revisit my original idea.

[oggalily]

Good question Forseti. Yes, a bit of background is allowed and Salty's pic fits (my vision of) the brief. As always there is room for interpretation.

By the way, I won't exclude any photos from the poll that I don't think meet the brief - I don't think that's my role and the voters will have the final say in those cases. I will exclude any that weren't taken over the weekend.

Since you asked, I have looked at my own flickr gallery to test my own pics against my own view of the rule.

Here's one where there is a central subject but the background is an important element to the composition so I would say it doesn't qualify:


This one is borderline, probably OK as is, but I might crop a bit off the top to make the point a bit more:


This one has some background but only enough to define the subject, so it's OK:


And this is pretty much spot on:

[Forseti]

Thanks for that ogga and with the inclusion of those images there can now be no room for doubt.

[matt wilson]

a quick play in the kitchen and a bit of sneezing and I have an entry .Straight short bar a bit of sharpening .

[HinFrance]

My first and probably only stab at this is Pot Pourri.



I can bit literal at times

Shucks H - I pondered a similar full frame

[HinFrance]

I'm sure yours would be better

Originally Posted by HinFrance

I'm sure yours would be better

I'm not sure it would - Will probably go in with a quick snap from the few whisked in this morning while out in the garden. Though so overcast here, the light is making my images seem rather flat

[michaelb104]

Well I'm in with this, I did find a nice group of ladybirds but I couldn't crop out enough of the background to fit the theme properly.



Straight out of the camera except I've cropped it square and applied an upsharp mask.