Weekly challenge 7/25 - 7/31 The devil is in the details

johngpt · Jul 29, 2020

From one of my walks through the neighborhood.
Tried to use the contrejour light to emphasize and the shadowed areas to frame to what I hope the viewer's eye is drawn.

neighbor's wildflower

.

gk fotografie · Jul 29, 2020

Today I experimented a bit with some new plugins and graphical tricks from the analog photo time. The handbag model really exists, the color combination really does not. It was fun to play.

View attachment 195179

acparsons · Jul 31, 2020

This is Precious the praying mantis and she's on top of the world!

DSC_6188 by Machiavelliar, on Flickr

johngpt · Jul 31, 2020

To accentuate to where I wanted the eye to move and attend to detail, I used the zoom at its max 200mm and its widest aperture.
I tried to get complementary colors for the background to contrast the red of the fading bloom.
I tried to have luminosity contrast between bloom and background.
I tried to achieve natural framing of the bloom within the cactus branches.
And of course I shot about 6 frames hoping that focus on the bloom was achieved properly. It did on one.

fading cactus flower 25Jul20

.

Photo Lady · Jul 31, 2020

mjcmt · Jul 31, 2020

photoflyer said:
Only the details matter.

View attachment 195148

So many details...not to be forgotten!
(And a selfie too)

There's quit a bit or pincushion curvature in your lens. Did you process from raw files and didn't correct?

Photo Lady · Jul 31, 2020

Dean_Gretsch said:
Continuing in the insect's world...

View attachment 195017

wow this is awesome shot

Photo Lady · Jul 31, 2020

I feel so cozy..

photoflyer · Jul 31, 2020

gk fotografie said:
Today I experimented a bit with some new plugins and graphical tricks from the analog photo time. The handbag model really exists, the color combination really does not. It was fun to play.

I thought you'd gotten an x-ray machine from the airport!

mjcmt said:
There's quit a bit or pincushion curvature in your lens. Did you process from raw files and didn't correct?

I was out on a bike ride so I left the best gear at home. These were taken on a 50D with the Tamron 18-400 super zoom.

I noticed what you noticed and was too lazy to take it out! Busted!

That lens is actually really fun to use even with its limitations and I'm glad I got it.

fishing4sanity · Aug 1, 2020

SquarePeg · Aug 1, 2020

What is that?

photoflyer · Aug 1, 2020

SquarePeg said:
What is that?

I was going to make a joke about how fast he could cut the lawn with it! But I'm guessing his "yard" is measured in the hundreds or thousands of acres!

wannabe photog · Aug 1, 2020

@fishing4sanity, there certainly must be some interesting details to go with that sickle bar shot.
Probably not anything to do with sand peas (eriosema floribundum) since they likely won't grow in eastern Washington.

Nice photo, though, and probably nicely cleaned metal under that sand layer.

fishing4sanity · Aug 1, 2020

SquarePeg said:
What is that?

It's a close up of the sickle bar, the cutting part, of a combine header that just finished seed peas. Here's a pic of the combine from a couple years ago.