I took these both with my Canon 7D and Canon 75-300mm telephoto. I transferred the statue shot to monochrome and sepia in Digital Photo Professional and combined the two photos into the diptych using Gimp.
Let’s assume that the angel is a woman (how does one ‘sex’ an angel anyway?). So these are two different views of women, angels and models. These two overlap, of course, most blatantly with the Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels’ collection. I also thought the hair wrap on the model looked a little like the angel’s wing.
-Andrew Zirm
Menu- Nikon D200, f/5.0 Max f/3.6, 22mm 1/90 ISO 800.
Beach- Nikon D200, f/18.0 Max f/4.3, 44mm 1/1000 ISO 1000.
Both bracketed with additional 4 shots @ increments of 0.7, combined to HDR with Photomatix Pro. Handheld, no flash.
Maybe it’s my (limited) art-historical knowledge, but none of my horizantal shots were doing it for me. They just looked funny. Anyhoo. I was squeezing the remainder out of my summer, entertaining some visiting (maternal) family at out (paternal) family camp. Menuboard was taken at an ice cream dispensing establishment. The pic was more satisfying than the dessert (Note to self: Shaved Ice is not as good as Italian Ice). The Sunshot was taken a few hours previous; I was enjoying the reflection of the minerals in the asphalt as I crossed the street.
-Brendan Eaton
Nikon D300s w/ Nikkor 50 1.8 shot on tripod at f4 1/10 ISO 200 w/ diffused SB-600 handheld
I started saving beer caps a few months back. The original plan was for a photo project but it has now turned into a collection and a nice conversation piece. This challenge allowed me to get back to the original reason of why I started saving them.
-Daniel J. Dovalina
I know this is a few hours late but I’m on the West coast and I don’t have a home computer to be able to edit RAW data so I had to do it early this morning on my office computer.
Anyway, if I’m not disqualified here is my description for this weeks entry.
I really liked the depth to this weeks contest. After a bunch of dead ends I came up with this piece I titled “Dichotomy”. It is supposed to represent the duality of good and evil designed into all of our inner natures and it’s battle in each of our lives. Which side is winning in your life today? I shot this in my bathroom at 11:00pm with my Canon G9 and a mag light. Nothin else. I tweaked the colors in RAW. Hope you like it.
-Daniel Sidler
Canon EOS 7D
1/20
F2.8
tamron 17 – 50 mm
ISO: 320
It was kind of late and If I made real coffee I would have to drink it, so black food coloring and water did the job. Used the fiancee as the model.
-Dino Lie
Walpaper1
Camera: Canon PowerShot A2000 IS
F-Stop: f/3.2
Exposure Time: 1/80 sec.
ISO Speed: 80
Focal Length 6mm
Wallpaper2
Camera: Canon PowerShot A2000 IS
F-Stop: f/3.2
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec.
ISO Speed: 80
Focal Length 6mm
Haiku! =D
In Different Worlds
But In The Same Family
These Two Fungi Strive
It has been awfully rainy in Alaska of late, so the fungi have decided to take over.
It was easy to see the amanita (careful, its poisonous!) because it was all by itself, and orange of course. =D
I was picking up some garbage in front of my work and saw the cigarette butt being eaten by the brown fungi ( I don’t know what its called).
I thought that it was a good contrast of the different fungi in different locations, one in the forest, and one in the city.
-Disa Foshaug
Both shots were on the Canon EOS 7D in manual focus with the EF 50mm f/1.4 USM.
-Day shot
For this I used my Fader ND Mark II filter set to its max of 8 stops of density.
Mode: Manual
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 8 seconds
Aperture: 22
-Night shot
Heh, all the same as the day settings, minus the ND filter.
So I used light versus dark extended exposures for my diptych, and what better subject matter than the county fair Ferris wheel (in that anything that reminds me of summer is win!) To get the two images as close to the same as possible, I setup the tripod for the day shot, locking everything in place, then (don’t tell anyone) I dug a small hole right under the center of the tripod so I knew where to place it when I came back later that evening. I also kept everything set and locked on the tripod, only folding the legs in, so the angle at which I took the picture was the same. For both pictures I tried to time it so that I would start the exposure right before they started spinning the wheel so you could make out the actual carts on the ride too. This was probably the most difficult part of the shot.
-Joshua Winkelmann
I’m so excited to finally submit something to the Shooting Challenge! I took these photos with my Canon S90 (the “point-and-shoot” as I like to call it) which has a 6.0-22.5mm lens on it. These two shots were taken at ISO 80 at f/3.2. My friends and I were enjoying the sun on Saturday afternoon, when we noticed a large black object slowly making its way around the pool. Upon further inspection, we saw that it was this beetle! My friend is quite a fan of Coleoptera, and it seems this one likes her back!
-Kate Fehlhaber
Olympus E-300, f/22, 1/100, ISO 100, 33mm
-Kay Owens
Taken with a Canon T1i using the kit 18-55 lens and UV filter
Left Image1/20 f/22 18mm ISO 200 -1/3EV
Right Image1/50 f/29 18mm ISO 200 -1/3EV
Photos were taken Wednesday morning in Ames, Iowa as the Skunk River flooded over Highway 30. I took this very road not more than 90 minutes earlier to get to work when it was passable and stopped to take the shots on my way out of the area. Both shots were taken on the Dayton Ave overpass of US-30. Left image is facing east, right image is facing west (where river was located). Right image was resized to achieve horizon alignment, but shots were unedited otherwise.
-Rezza Rahmani
“Spider-man Diptych”
Cannon Powershot SD1400
Set on “Beach” settings
While waiting for my wife to pick up some drinks at 7-11 before we hit the beach I snapped a few of Spidey as he hung outside of the store.
-Sterling Silva
Camera: Pentax Kx
Lens: Stock 18-55mm
Day Image: 1/20 – f5.6 – iso 1600 – 55mm
Night Image: 1/2000 – f5.6 – iso 800 – 55mm
This is my first challenge. I hope you guys can still accept this. I know the cutoff was 7:00am, but I hope, if good enough, you’ll consider. With that being said, I decided to shoot a street light. I’m sure almost everyone can remember the times as a child when they’d have to come home after a full day of playing when the street lights came on. The first shot, taken on a gloomy day represents the time just before the lights would come on. The second shot representing the time to ‘call it a night’ and it lighting your way home.
-Tom Gutowski
