Round 2 - DVXUser Photography Contest
- Thread starter Jeremy Ordan
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Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Yeah, Shred was great man, loved the feeling of motion!
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Blaine! That's a real awesome shot man! Love the post work you did on it!
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
KOVAROVA said:
yeah... how did you get that shot?
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Blaine said:
ah... brilliant!
FlintMI
Well-known member
"Music on the edge" by Shawn Chittle (FlintMI)
"Music on the edge" by Shawn Chittle (FlintMI)
it was literally right in front of me when the contest was announced, and summer=concerts so what the heck!
behind the stage is a sheer cliff, so I called it "Music on the edge"
This is the Gorge Amphitheater in George Washington, about 3 hours outside of Seattle. Widely considered the most beautiful venues in the world... at least all the artists that play there can't believe it when they arrive.
"Music on the edge" by Shawn Chittle (FlintMI)
it was literally right in front of me when the contest was announced, and summer=concerts so what the heck!
behind the stage is a sheer cliff, so I called it "Music on the edge"
This is the Gorge Amphitheater in George Washington, about 3 hours outside of Seattle. Widely considered the most beautiful venues in the world... at least all the artists that play there can't believe it when they arrive.
Mark Harris
Pain in the ass
FlintMI said:it was literally right in front of me when the contest was announced, and summer=concerts so what the heck!
behind the stage is a sheer cliff, so I called it "Music on the edge"
This is the Gorge Amphitheater in George Washington, about 3 hours outside of Seattle. Widely considered the most beautiful venues in the world... at least all the artists that play there can't believe it when they arrive.
Ah the gorge at George. Brings back memories of my Northwest days...
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
I really liked that shot as well... reminds me of an epic battle in LOTR or something... lol
fixitinpost
Well-known member
Before:
After:
Just went out with the DVX a few hours before the deadline, took a frame grab, and spent half an hour in Photoshop.
After:
Just went out with the DVX a few hours before the deadline, took a frame grab, and spent half an hour in Photoshop.
HowDareMe
Active member
Congrats Everyone
Congrats Everyone
Everyones pictures were DAMN good this week. I am sorry I didnt get a chance to comment on them this time, work sucks right now! Brandon and Blaine, those were two of my favorites, nice post work for the both of you.
Here is my entry, I snapped it the first day of the contest, was hoping to find somthing better to submit, but never got around to shooting anything else. Yes, Southern California is home to this strange car. I saw it twice that day, I took this photo on my walk to the grocery store for dinner. I like to take my D50 along with me when i stroll through Hollywood. You never know what you may see....
Congrats Everyone
Everyones pictures were DAMN good this week. I am sorry I didnt get a chance to comment on them this time, work sucks right now! Brandon and Blaine, those were two of my favorites, nice post work for the both of you.
Here is my entry, I snapped it the first day of the contest, was hoping to find somthing better to submit, but never got around to shooting anything else. Yes, Southern California is home to this strange car. I saw it twice that day, I took this photo on my walk to the grocery store for dinner. I like to take my D50 along with me when i stroll through Hollywood. You never know what you may see....
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
HowDareMe said:Everyones pictures were DAMN good this week. I am sorry I didnt get a chance to comment on them this time, work sucks right now! Brandon and Blaine, those were two of my favorites, nice post work for the both of you.
Here is my entry, I snapped it the first day of the contest, was hoping to find somthing better to submit, but never got around to shooting anything else. Yes, Southern California is home to this strange car. I saw it twice that day, I took this photo on my walk to the grocery store for dinner. I like to take my D50 along with me when i stroll through Hollywood. You never know what you may see....
Thanks! And HAHA! That is an awesome pic. Really liked that one, LOL! How is that thing street legal?!
dougspice
Veteran
HowDareMe said:Everyones pictures were DAMN good this week. I am sorry I didnt get a chance to comment on them this time, work sucks right now! Brandon and Blaine, those were two of my favorites, nice post work for the both of you.
Here is my entry, I snapped it the first day of the contest, was hoping to find somthing better to submit, but never got around to shooting anything else. Yes, Southern California is home to this strange car. I saw it twice that day, I took this photo on my walk to the grocery store for dinner. I like to take my D50 along with me when i stroll through Hollywood. You never know what you may see....
I've seen this guy and his car before! I didn't have a camera with me at the time, so thanks for grabbing the pic.
Jeremy Ordan
Major Contributor
Well since everyone is posting there thing here rather than in the individual pictures, which is cool, here is mine and the borderline novel about the image.
OK, well this image was mine... I think between my comment on the image as well as the description I highlighted what I liked and disliked regarding this image. Here is the quick story behind the image: I had originally planned for another nude shot but ran into a couple of problems with bugs and my model protesting, so that shattered the shoot on Sunday (it was going to be a birds eye of a woman laying naked in a patch of flowers, right hand covering breasts and left hand covering crotch)... Ultimately that just wasn't going to work for this though. I then decided I would actually submit a picture with a clothed model. I came up with this idea at lunch with a friend of mine discussing Tom Hanks and how far he has come... from Splash to Cast Away. I stood up and yelled, Splash! That's f*cking summer like nothing else. On a napkin I storyboarded out the shot with this idea of having a woman come out of the pool with this arch of water surrounding her. This proved a lot easier to draw than shoot. First I was down to 3 days and all the normal people I shoot were already booked tight. Heather, the model who I used for this shoot, and I played phone tag all the way up until Tuesday around 11pm before we were able to connect. At that point she agreed to show up at my house at 7am the next morning. I set up and got everything together for the shot, bringing an 18-70mm lens, 70-210mm lens, and then a 50mm 1.8. I had packed a polarizer, uv, IR, yellow filter, blue filter... everything just for this shot. Well come to Wednesday morning there is a massive fog and 98% humidity that had descended upon the city. We got to the pool and everything instantly fogged up and was covered with so much condensation I wondered if I could get a single shot off. We did a lot of pool shots of her playing with a beach ball and jumping into the pool because I learned long ago that what you plan to do may not be as good as that shot that you just snap while playing around (and in this case trying to wait out the humidity). Ultimately we said 'screw it' and just locked the camera down on the tripod and got ready to shoot. I made a decision to really go for a shallow depth of field to isolate the water and her profile, but believe this shot would have been more ideal at F4.0 rather than the 1.8 that I shot at. A slightly deeper depth of field would have allowed for more water to be in the shooting plane rather than the thin amount presented here. Ultimately I shot this with a light blue filter, a polarizer, and a 50mm 1.8 lens on the Nikon D50... this was the only combination I could come up with that wouldn't fog up, because originally I wanted something much wider like the wide end of the 17-70mm. Now to the actual shoot, this is where things got complicated in that the D50, even at 1.8 and a shutter over 1000 only generates 2-3 FPS shooting. My idea was for Heather to bend at the waist, submerge completely and jerk her body backwards creating this arch of water surrounding her. Well, with only about 2 frames per second I have a lot of shots of her under water or the splash falling on top of her. In total we took around 200 pictures to get 5 that were close to the image that I had in mind. It was a long shoot but ultimately the result I think speaks for itself in capturing that one moment that exists in a blink of an eye. I thank everyone for their comments, especially the constructive criticism about the DOF, the action, as well as the overall feel of the image.
OK, well this image was mine... I think between my comment on the image as well as the description I highlighted what I liked and disliked regarding this image. Here is the quick story behind the image: I had originally planned for another nude shot but ran into a couple of problems with bugs and my model protesting, so that shattered the shoot on Sunday (it was going to be a birds eye of a woman laying naked in a patch of flowers, right hand covering breasts and left hand covering crotch)... Ultimately that just wasn't going to work for this though. I then decided I would actually submit a picture with a clothed model. I came up with this idea at lunch with a friend of mine discussing Tom Hanks and how far he has come... from Splash to Cast Away. I stood up and yelled, Splash! That's f*cking summer like nothing else. On a napkin I storyboarded out the shot with this idea of having a woman come out of the pool with this arch of water surrounding her. This proved a lot easier to draw than shoot. First I was down to 3 days and all the normal people I shoot were already booked tight. Heather, the model who I used for this shoot, and I played phone tag all the way up until Tuesday around 11pm before we were able to connect. At that point she agreed to show up at my house at 7am the next morning. I set up and got everything together for the shot, bringing an 18-70mm lens, 70-210mm lens, and then a 50mm 1.8. I had packed a polarizer, uv, IR, yellow filter, blue filter... everything just for this shot. Well come to Wednesday morning there is a massive fog and 98% humidity that had descended upon the city. We got to the pool and everything instantly fogged up and was covered with so much condensation I wondered if I could get a single shot off. We did a lot of pool shots of her playing with a beach ball and jumping into the pool because I learned long ago that what you plan to do may not be as good as that shot that you just snap while playing around (and in this case trying to wait out the humidity). Ultimately we said 'screw it' and just locked the camera down on the tripod and got ready to shoot. I made a decision to really go for a shallow depth of field to isolate the water and her profile, but believe this shot would have been more ideal at F4.0 rather than the 1.8 that I shot at. A slightly deeper depth of field would have allowed for more water to be in the shooting plane rather than the thin amount presented here. Ultimately I shot this with a light blue filter, a polarizer, and a 50mm 1.8 lens on the Nikon D50... this was the only combination I could come up with that wouldn't fog up, because originally I wanted something much wider like the wide end of the 17-70mm. Now to the actual shoot, this is where things got complicated in that the D50, even at 1.8 and a shutter over 1000 only generates 2-3 FPS shooting. My idea was for Heather to bend at the waist, submerge completely and jerk her body backwards creating this arch of water surrounding her. Well, with only about 2 frames per second I have a lot of shots of her under water or the splash falling on top of her. In total we took around 200 pictures to get 5 that were close to the image that I had in mind. It was a long shoot but ultimately the result I think speaks for itself in capturing that one moment that exists in a blink of an eye. I thank everyone for their comments, especially the constructive criticism about the DOF, the action, as well as the overall feel of the image.