Lovely shot here from Dianne with some really inspirational tips and thoughts. I urge you to checkout more on her website www.masterwords.ca
Enter Dianne:
Sometimes we may miss the simple shots while we are out trying to get the Best. Shot. Ever.
Every year my front yard in Toronto, Ontario has a beautiful display of flowers. People comment when they walk by. I sit on the stairs and take various shots in natural light. 5 p.m. is my favourite time of day. The light is getting a bit lower and seems to backlight the blooms to bring out the best colour. It’s also a great time to create sparkling bokeh highlights. Overcast is also a great shooting setting. I use my telephoto zoom; I don’t own a macro lens … yet. I also like to offset my shots, to the left or right. You might say it’s a trademark.
My tip for creating effective photos – appreciate your surroundings, whether you are travelling or at home. Take pleasure in the beauty of spring and any season and enjoy the outdoors. In my case, I take time to smell – and photograph – the flowers.
We have featured Ross before http://www.photobotos.com/mayhem-crowd-shot/ and I hope you’ll agree this is another great shot (again, pretty different to what we normally see on PhotoBotos). I am particularly fond of black and white when done correctly.
Enter Ross:
Back in February i was asked to play a small part in a music video one of my mates was producing for Boy Kid Cloud. Always up for a laugh i agreed to join in and took my camera along with me (as I thought I could catch a few behind the scene photos).
This is my favourite one from the day. the rest can be found on facebook
The Artist page is http://www.facebook.com/boykidcloud
The production company can be found http://www.tpakproductions.com/
We’re a little bit late with this one, but never-the-less, it’s still a powerful image. Helen doesn’t have a website but you can find her on facebook where she posts a lot of her photos.
Enter Helen:
I am an amateur photographer–started it as a hobby after retiring from 30 plus years as a nurse. I have taken several digital photography courses at TCU. Usually I use my Canon 7D, but carry the G12 in my purse all the time. We have lived in Texas for 38 years, in a small town west of Fort Worth. After the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX, I was so proud of how all of Texas rallied around and helped West clean up and survive after the tragedy. I had taken this picture of the flag earlier in the year (right outside of my favorite hamburger place) and liked how it was framed and the lighting, and wanted to pay a tribute to all Texans and how proud we are of our state.
Here the Texas flag is pictured close to sunset in Hudson Oaks, TX.
A brilliant photo- amazing to catch these two almost as a mirror image. Please take a moment to checkout more of Suzanne’s work on her blog: www.walkingpapers.wordpress.com
Enter Suzanne:
I am a mom and amateur photographer. A couple of years ago, my little family took off to travel the world–my kids were just two and four at the time, so it was a crazy fifteen month adventure. I took this photo in Argentina’s Tigre Delta, a vast conglomeration of grass and forest covered islands and meandering canals. I took this photo at a small restaurant where we stopped our boat to have lunch. I grabbed my Nikon D3 to try to catch one of the brilliant hummingbirds in action, and was thrilled to catch two. It happened so fast I was not sure I had even gotten the photo. Despite how beautiful the birds are, my favorite part of the photo is the fat bee sitting on the fake yellow flower drinking his fill–a perfect example of synergy between man and nature!
The only editing I did was to lighten the photo a bit.
Sarah is an amaetur photographer, studying Zoology at University in Reading. She has a photography blog at http://allmanphotography.wordpress.com - please take a moment to check it out.
Enter Sarah:
This shot was taken on a private game reserve in South Africa where I was interning as an Assistant Field Guide. My main interest is wildlife photography, but I’d love to try my hand at landscape photography!
This young female lion was away from the rest of her pride, and we found her just by chance by the side of one of the dirt roads on the reserve. She had not been seen for a while so it was a relief to see her alive and healthy. We managed to get incredibly close to her, only a few metres away. After sitting with her for a couple of hours while she posed beautifully for some photographs, we left her to nap while we went off in search of the rest of the pride.
Into the Sunset, Arabian Gulf, Qatar – Gustav Brandt
Here is one of my latest shots, taken on the Arabian Gulf, just next to the Pearl in Qatar. I sat on the rocks, next to the sea and waited for an opportune moment for a good photo. The sun was still visible. All of a sudden and out of the blue, a guy on his board came paddling past me and then I waited for him to come into the targeted area for my planned shot. In the end, it all worked out picture perfect.
Canon 600D 55-250mm
Settings: 55mm, f/13, 1/1500 sec, ISO 800
Tripod used
There really wasn’t much editing to do in Photoshop. Just used curves to punch up the colours and then resized for web and added a slight sharpen.
A Dog’s Life (Ordinary Day) – Poitiers, France – Ben JT
White Sands Double Rainbow – White Sands, New Mexico – Rikk Flohr
“Forgotten” Alberta, Canada – Dave Mitchell – Guest Photographer
Life on the Edge – “A Small Hero” – Giuseppe Parisi
Take Some of the Best Images of Your Life (Part 1 of 5) – Tutorial
Butterfly on Flowers (Perhaps) – Tanzania – Lee Peiling
Blue Hawaii – Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu – David Orias
