Flowers on father's day.

[ronlane]

Spent the weekend helping my mom and dad doing work at their place but I got up on Sunday morning and got some peace and quiet to myself and take a few images.

Since these were just for me and since I am working on some images for a competition, I have been adding some borders for these.

1) This one forgot to use sunscreen.


2) Purple times 3.



3) Growing in numbers.



4) All by itself.

 

[tirediron]

Nice... you're on your way to being Young Hippy!

 

[ronlane]

Thanks John. Not worthy of that but I'm learning. I really need a dedicated macro lens or a 1.4x TC to go with my extension tubes.

 

[Steven Dillon]

Nice set of images. I think Purple Times 3 is my favorite. Good luck with the competition. Would be great to hear how you did.

 

[ronlane]

Nice set of images. I think Purple Times 3 is my favorite. Good luck with the competition. Would be great to hear how you did.

Thanks Steven. I not be entering any of these images, just practicing my presentation (key lines and mat) with these images. I'll try to post my best image and tell you how I did.

 

[ronlane]

@Steven Dillon,

That image competition was last night and I will admit to being a little disappointed but also okay with how things went. The competition is through a local PPA and is scored in levels. All of my images were scored in a range that I am okay with and was surprised by how well one of them did.

I received two ribbons of distinguished award. I would love to have done better but I realize that all of the images that I submitted were taken before I was a member of this group and were not taken with any competition in mind.

I submitted the maximum of 6 images and I'll share with you the two that received awards.

1) Titled "Outrunning my shadow" - This image was the last one that I picked to for the competition and it scored the best of my images.



2) Titled "Together" - This image actually scored better than I thought and was the only image that I had where the judges gave critique. (which surprised me that they scored it as high as they did.)



I can tell you that it was a great learning process and something that I will do again. It is making me think about my images. I have not been shooting as much since I submitted these images but I find myself thinking about what would make a great photo instead of just snapping "snap shots" all the time.

 

[Steven Dillon]

Ron,
Thanks for the update. They are both fine looking images, congrats. I can see making changes to what I do to improve compositional aspects or artistic merit, but I wouldn't ever change what I do just to place better in a contest. That being said, I've only entered a contest twice (same one different years): won Artist-In-Residence for South Carolina State Parks the first time and never heard anything from my second entry. I have been considering entering more though as a source of additional exposure.

 

[ronlane]

The changes that I am making would be for improvements to help with my photography not to just win/place in contests. The feedback for me was more of composition aspect and that I was a little too tight on that portrait. Only one other image I had that they commented on and that was about a halo issue around a building.