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

[michaelb104]

There are some fantastic entries this week, it's going to be a really hard choice when voting.

[jinky]

I found my sd card with my flower shots ogga so changing my entry as soon as I upload the two possibles. Really hard cos when I got them on screen just now to do quick levels/ brightness / contrast basic changes saw loads of muck on my best ones! I thought I could spot clean them thinking they were sensor dust but when looked at the vase again it was the flowers so had to reject them and pick out two and choose.
Been doing too many photos last few days and 5 sd cards on the go - beware of misplacing things
5 minutes and they will be up if you are early posring by any chance ogga

Later edit:

Done it ogga. Entered this one:


Would have preferred to have re-taken this one so it was not a little soft like my cat one on the nose but hey ho!



More setting up than processing for once. For those strobists out there. SB800 to right in front close, sb600 to left close too. Piece of black material behind that had to be moved a ridiculous amount of times to stay black! I`ll go back to my originals and do a lot of spot cleaning - thank god it wasn`t all sensor muck. Akthough it is hard to tell. A tip - after doing most of my white flower shots I noticed some muck on the flower head. Gave it a light tap, a rough shake and then used the kitchen pastry brush to clean it up a bit. Don`t do that - other people get cross and say it is unhygenic!

[oggalily]

No worries jinky, no rush as I will wait till midday before doing the poll. I know what you mean about muck on the flowers as I had exactly the same problem, hence a rethink.

[SieSmith]

Well, I'm in with a rushed effort after being ill all weekend. Managed this last night and posted late this morning, between trips to the loo!

Cheers, Sie

[oggalily]

Entries thread now closed - poll coming shortly.

Good luck all!

[iRebel]

Just voted for michaelb, I like colours, it look so peaceful I think this one will fit any wall,well taken and balanced. Very close was: snowlock, and jinky.

[Old Salty]

A hard decision but I liked the leaf for colour,detail,composition and filling the frame!

[ianpinion]

Such a difficult choice to make this week, but I settled on Matt's image. I liked the overall balance and composition of this shot, but I was torn between it and Beauxreflets.

[Forseti]

Some exceedingly good images entered this week and it was difficult to make a choice. However, I eventually cast my vote for Andy (Beauxreflets) - not only was it one of the few that exactly matched the conditions of the theme set as both described and illustrated by ogga, but also very well composed, executed and presented. I suspect that a lot of patience was involved in this capture. Very well done Andy, a very worthy winner in my view.

[Cutter]

Wow
Finding it hard to choose this week,it's between 3, will vote later! good luck you front runners great photo's and may I say all with not much photoshop. ( LONG MAY THIS CONTINUE) What do you think ?