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Member challenge #5 Macro of your garden or a garden near you
Started July 25, 2010 @ 12:15pm by scotthadl
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scotthadl
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| Member challenge #5 Macro of your garden or a garden near you | July 25, 2010 @ 12:15pm | OK here is the new challenge, Make an interesting macro or closeup of something in your garden or a garden near you, I know that some of us are in the middle of summer and others way down south are in the middle of winter don't worry your image doesn't have to be a flower or bug.
This will run for two weeks at which time I will pick the winner and that person will choose the new member assignment.
Please go out an make one or two new images for this assignment hopefully we all have a garden or green space within walking distance of where we live or work.
I have some vacation and a heavy work load over the next two weeks but will do my best to drop in and comment on each submission.
a couple of my recent images to get you started.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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Steve
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| July 25, 2010 @ 2:23pm | Scott - Thanks for picking up the torch again!
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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scotthadl
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| July 26, 2010 @ 1:03am | Happy to do so, the first few challenges went well I would love to see this as a staple of an already great site.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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Flo
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| July 26, 2010 @ 7:40am | Thanks, Scott. Lovely example images. I'll have to look around with a sharp eye, lol.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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RickT
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| Scratching "chin" | July 26, 2010 @ 9:34am | I think I'd better submit a bee picture now before I'm tempted to enter a spider picture, and thus spoil this thread for some people  . I shot several pictures of this bee while it was involved in self-grooming, rubbing its legs all over its head and anterior thorax. After some of my recent shots, it was a relief to try to capture as large an animal as a honeybee....
Canon EOS 40D, lens Canon 100mm macro, ISO 400, f/16, 1/250 w/flash, distance ~9 inches, tripod, 2010-07-25
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Trish
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| July 26, 2010 @ 11:26am | One to pop in, can't get as close as Rick but here goes.
Trish
PPY anytime and welcome
http://www.pfshaw.com
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Steve
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| July 26, 2010 @ 12:02pm | Rick and Trish - Great shots and very different takes on bees. Very nice, but I might need to keep some an epi-pen handy when reading this thread.
Scott - Sorry, I should have commented on your fine examples. I love the color triad in the ladybug shot. And the foliage shot is great. I have been trying to create a shot like that for a while with only limited success.
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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scotthadl
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| July 26, 2010 @ 2:07pm | Rick excellent sharpness and a supper tight composition well done.
Trish I like this composition as well I personally like to include the flower or plant the bug is standing on in my images, I would suggest making sure your focus point is on the bee in this case and let the flower go out of focus as I believe the bee is your primary subject and should be the sharpest object in the frame.
Great start looking forward to more entries.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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Tim
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Flo
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| July 27, 2010 @ 12:22am | Rick, gotta love your macros. This is such a close-up of the bee it took me a moment to figure out what was what!
Trish, love the colors and the graceful curves of the flower stalk. Glad the bee sat still for you.
Tim, again, a great image. Of course it's fine if you post this here, too.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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Tim
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RickT
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| July 27, 2010 @ 11:15pm | Flo, I'm saving my pennies for that scanning electron microscope so I can make dust mites look like ankylosaurs. 
Trish, I have no doubt that your garden is much lusher with far more variety than mine. (Actually, I don't have a garden anymore since the city surveyed and found that the flowers (also cultivated by a previous owner) were actually on city land. Ripped them out and let the little plot go fallow. But I digress.) At any rate, I see your shot as being about the relation between bee and flower.
Tim, I'm glad to see your tomato composition show up on this thread. It's just such a perfect progression of ripeness.
And Scott has given us the choice between bold colors and intriguing B&W leaves. Very nice.
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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JPetty
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| July 30, 2010 @ 9:28am | Rick, love the bumblebee. That's quite the close-up. Way to go.
Here are mine. Kind of difficult to find any flowers this time of year. These were out Saturday. Sadly, when I went to the post office yesterday, the passion flowers were gone.
Janet
Go ahead and play with the images. I would ask that when you post them on other sites (such as Flikr, Photobucket, etc.) that you credit my photography. I would do the same for you! Other than that, I'm E Z T D B W. |
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Flo
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| July 30, 2010 @ 9:34am | Janet, I love your bumble bee on the cosmos or whatever it is. And passion flowers are so exotic, they are almost unbelievable. I love the purple with the pale yellow of the anthers (the pollen producers).
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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Steve
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| July 30, 2010 @ 11:41am | Tim - Nice shot. Makes me wish that I had some tomatoes growing in my garden.
Janet - These are both great. I agree with Flo about the passion flower - It kind of reminds me of a Portuguese Man-of-War.
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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Steve
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| July 30, 2010 @ 11:51am | Here are a couple:
First, a macro self portrait (No the reflection, not the frog )
(Canon 7D; 100mm Macro; 1/30sec @ f/4.0)
Glowing Flower:
(Canon 7D; 100mm Macro; 1/350sec @f/2.8)
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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Trish
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| July 30, 2010 @ 1:37pm | Steve Lol at epi-pen but you could bee right!
Rick So sharp and so close too. Such a shame about your garden and a senseless waste too.
Tim perfect capture for this challenge. I love the smell of tomatoes growingand can't get enough of them
Smart bee Janet and colourful passion flower.
Steve what a great capture of the frog, could even fit the green challenge too. Sweet bud.
Trish
PPY anytime and welcome
http://www.pfshaw.com
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Billy Joe
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| Faces In The Garden | July 30, 2010 @ 2:13pm | The first image is for reference. The entire cluster of 18 flowers and buds, on a 24 inch stem, is less than 3 inches or 76mm across. The individual flowers average a little more than an inch or 28mm across. The faces, on each flower, average .08 of an inch or 2mm across.
The 2nd image is of the man's face on the left of the reference image. It's approximately 40mm across
The orchid is a hybrid of "Pacific Shangrila (El Rincon) x "Pacific Girl (Primavera) and has won an AM/AOS award. That's the only information that appears on the orchid tag.
I'm having a little trouble with saturation. The color on the reference image is OK, but the 2nd image is a little over cooked. I lowered it in PS, but had to increase in TME????? I'll work on it.
Thanks for taking a peek.
Billy Joe..
Nikon D3s, Nikon 200mm Micro w/25mm of extension.
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JPetty
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| July 30, 2010 @ 2:31pm | Billy Joe, WOW, WOW, WOW! Beautiful, simply WOW!
Janet
Go ahead and play with the images. I would ask that when you post them on other sites (such as Flikr, Photobucket, etc.) that you credit my photography. I would do the same for you! Other than that, I'm E Z T D B W. |
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Flo
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| July 30, 2010 @ 11:47pm | Aw, Steve, you mean I can't kiss you and turn you into Prince Charming?  I don't think I'd have noticed your reflection had you not mentioned it! It's a beautiful capture of the frog, tho.
Your flower is lovely, so nice and soft.
Billy Joe, again I must say that these are lovely and fascinating.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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Last Edit: July 31, 2010 @ 9:09am by Flo | |
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Tim
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Steve
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| July 31, 2010 @ 8:52am | Thanks, Tim!
Flo - Thanks! My wife has been trying to turn me into a prince charming for 20+ years - Obviously, without success.
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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scotthadl
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| August 1, 2010 @ 2:19pm | Wow some really nice work in here.
Tim tomatoes are my favorite garden fruit and you have done a nice job of capturing the progressing from green to ripe.
Janet wonderful bumble bee and cone flower shot Love the perspective giving you a nice clean background. Too bad about the passion flower maybe there will be more blooms next time you drop by.
Steve, super macro of the frog did you use a telepohoto lens for this image? I can't get that close with my macro lens.
Also a nice flower macro good backlight to bring out the glow of the flower.
Billy Joe. very nice I also like the angle you took on this macro of the orchid the colors look fine to me but I am not orchid expert.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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scotthadl
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| August 1, 2010 @ 2:20pm | One week left it would be nice to see a few more submissions.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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Steve
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| August 1, 2010 @ 3:27pm | Scott - Thanks. Actually, just a 100mm macro. I have a water feature in my yard and at least some of the frogs are pretty used to my coming and messing around with the garden and taking pictures.
Also, the flower was front/side lit. I used a trick of Tony Kuyper's which uses a couple of Gaussian blur layers to "spread" the light. It is very useful for landscapes, and this is the first time I ever tried it on a macro, but I like the effect.
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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Last Edit: August 1, 2010 @ 3:33pm by Steve | |
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Flo
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| August 1, 2010 @ 4:27pm | Steve - "spread the light? Using Gaussian blurs? Hum. First time I've heard of this, guess it could work.
To lighten parts of an image or the whole image, sometimes I used a white layer; to darken, use a black layer.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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Steve
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| August 1, 2010 @ 4:39pm | Flo - I should have provided a link. I think you may need to make a donation did get the instructions and the PS actions, but his tutorials and techniques are very useful. Anyway, here is a link:
http://www.goodlight.us/writing/makeitglow/makeitglow-1.html
-Steve (PPY)
Wayland, MA |
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April
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| August 1, 2010 @ 8:03pm |
Quote (scotthadl)
...the first few challenges went well I would love to see this as a staple of an already great site. |
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I just found this current thread; they keep moving around.
With Craig's blessing, perhaps post a link to each new member challenge in the "Site News" section?
There are inspiring images here, which make me re-consider exploring macro photography. It takes such incredible time, patience, and skill!
April (PPY)
Photos on Flickr
Just the other day (a photoblog)
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Prasanth
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| Black Beauty.... | August 2, 2010 @ 3:12am | A black beauty on a multi storied flower..Both are God's engineering....
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Flo
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| August 2, 2010 @ 6:48am | WOW! Prasanth, this is spectacular! Love the saturated colors, the details, the diagonal.
April and others, perhaps all that is needed when the choice is made by the current host is for that new person to add one more comment to this thread, stating where he/she will post the next member challenge.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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scotthadl
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| August 2, 2010 @ 6:39pm | Prasanth lovely butterfly and flower we have nothing like that around here.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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scotthadl
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| August 4, 2010 @ 12:10pm | I am going to be out of town on Sunday this week so will be picking the winner on Saturday. So don't wait to get your images in just a few days left.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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scotthadl
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| August 7, 2010 @ 12:04pm | Time is short today so just let me pick the winner I will try and give some additional details a bit later.
I picked RickT for the super sharp photo of the bee.
So Rick let us know which thread you are posting the next challenge in on the bottom of this challenge.
Great work everyone thanks for all the supportive comments along the way.
Scott.
Live life so that you notice all the wonderful things that take your breath away.
Please ask first before editing my images. |
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Flo
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| August 7, 2010 @ 5:22pm | Congratulations, Rick! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
http://photos.tonebytone.com |
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RickT
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| August 7, 2010 @ 7:26pm | We're in trouble now. You've picked one of the least creative among us and asked for a novel idea. I'll go cook dinner, have 2 glasses of wine, and then blame the lame idea on the alcohol.  To be continued....
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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assignment
Community Assignment #33
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Due Date: September 17, 2010
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