Challenge - Nov. 6 - 8 - Pick Your Best Shots
Irenejb wrote:
This should be a fun and informative challenge. Thanks for hosting Sharon.
Your egret image is beautiful....what a terrific job in capturing it.
My most current favorite image is a shot taken at Paul's Lake at sunrise Oct. 13, 2017. I was hoping to capture the fall colors surrounding the lake that are often a beautiful yellow. On this morning I loved the light and color of it and concentrated on that as the sun was not yet high enough to capture the true bright colors of the trees. Settings: f/11 1/100 ISO 800. PP in Corel Paint Shop Pro X9.
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A pretty shot, well done.
Lorima wrote:
This is going to a hard challenge as I have so many favorites. I am going to start with this one.
Taken last winter. I was driving around the farm looking for wildlife to photograph. I pulled up by the river and across the river I spotted a couple of deer, it was snowing and hard to get a good photo from that distance. After about 30 photo's they left.
I like this photo the best out of all the others. And worked it a little to darken areas to bring out the deer more.
Edited in Smart Photo Editor.
Canon SX50
Manual f5/56, 1/320, ISO 250.
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That's a really pretty shot. I like what you did with it.
SueScott wrote:
Here are a couple from this summer. The first is a picture of the nearby Pine Grove Methodist church which I think is my best this year - my favorite in any case! The second is from a misty morning in June in the woods surrounding our house - the lighting was astounding and the picture doesn't do justice to the real thing!
I like the composition in 1 and the lavish rays in 2.
Zudith wrote:
This is a challenge I hesitate to submit to, partly because my "Best" are not usually my favorites, and partly because I have long ago stopped trying to follow the rules I learned in the classes I took: using a tripod, using manual settings, using an interchangeable lens camera, etc., and started working toward what looks/feels "best" to me. I have no pretensions of being a professional photographer - I am probably what is referred to as an IWAC (Idiot with a camera!) But I love photography and if one photo in 100 gives me that "Wow" moment then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
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Really nice photo. I think that you are succeeding often.
Lorima wrote:
This is going to a hard challenge as I have so many favorites. I am going to start with this one.
Taken last winter. I was driving around the farm looking for wildlife to photograph. I pulled up by the river and across the river I spotted a couple of deer, it was snowing and hard to get a good photo from that distance. After about 30 photo's they left.
I like this photo the best out of all the others. And worked it a little to darken areas to bring out the deer more.
Edited in Smart Photo Editor.
Canon SX50
Manual f5/56, 1/320, ISO 250.
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That would look great on a Christmas card.
Lorima wrote:
This is going to a hard challenge as I have so many favorites. I am going to start with this one.
Taken last winter. I was driving around the farm looking for wildlife to photograph. I pulled up by the river and across the river I spotted a couple of deer, it was snowing and hard to get a good photo from that distance. After about 30 photo's they left.
I like this photo the best out of all the others. And worked it a little to darken areas to bring out the deer more.
Edited in Smart Photo Editor.
Canon SX50
Manual f5/56, 1/320, ISO 250.
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This is very appealing Lorima.
one shot wrote:
So nice to see the picture of that church again, love that shot.
You have a good memory - thanks!
The two photos I have chosen were both shot in favorite places we have visited many time over the years. The first is one I took of the Bass harbor Head lighthouse on Mt. Desert Island, Maine in 2005. The camera I used was a 6.1 megapixel Pentax istDL with a pentax 18-55 kit lens. I did minor post processing in the Photoscape program. It won Best in Class, Best in Show and People's Choice awards in our annual Country Fair Arts & Crafts competition. The second photo was taken on the island of kauai in the early 1990's using my 35mm Pentax with a Pentax 28-80 zoom lens. The Church was located in a small clearing in the midst of a sugar cane field along a red dirt road leading to Polihale State Park. The church and cane fields have now given way to extensive fields of genetically modified corn although a similar church has been recreated along Highway 50 on the west side of the island.
"Best picture" is a difficult qualifier but my included shot is definitely one of my favorites.
Picking your best (favorites) is a real challenge Sharon. Here are 2 birds that make my list.
FL Streetrodder wrote:
The two photos I have chosen were both shot in favorite places we have visited many time over the years. The first is one I took of the Bass harbor Head lighthouse on Mt. Desert Island, Maine in 2005. The camera I used was a 6.1 megapixel Pentax istDL with a pentax 18-55 kit lens. I did minor post processing in the Photoscape program. It won Best in Class, Best in Show and People's Choice awards in our annual Country Fair Arts & Crafts competition. The second photo was taken on the island of kauai in the early 1990's using my 35mm Pentax with a Pentax 28-80 zoom lens. The Church was located in a small clearing in the midst of a sugar cane field along a red dirt road leading to Polihale State Park. The church and cane fields have now given way to extensive fields of genetically modified corn although a similar church has been recreated along Highway 50 on the west side of the island.
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I enjoyed the colors and details of the lighthouse scene.
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