May 2009 Photo Competition: Discussion

[Frank Lopes]

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May Photo Competition

Theme:

• Flowers
  The theme was picked for our April competition winner: Sweetlight.

Entry Period:

• May 1, 20009 to May 28, 6:00pm EST

Voting Period:

• May 28, 20009 to May 31, 6:00pm EST

Discussion Period:

• May 1, 20009 to May 31, 6:00pm EST

[Nasturtium]

Thread on DGrin regarding post-processing flower pictures;

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=68167

[philbach]

Well you can upload files here that are less than 200k. I posted a file of 192 K with a 1200x964 pixel size. In photoshop I used the save for web and devices option with the optimize to file size of 195 K option.

[JAJohnson]

I saw this on Monday & I do alot of hiking & photographing... a couple years back I did some images of yellow wildflowers that grow along the water edge at a forest trial I hike... so today I took my camera back there & a small reflector (the area gets very little light) & grabbed a few shoots of what are some of my favorite things to see while I am hiking... glad I seen this challenge it was fun to photograph them again... I didn't read the link posted before I posted mine so I will go read it now & hope I didn't do it wrong... thank you...

[Frank Lopes]

This month's winner is Algarve Images

Congratulations!!

Gary has been informed and he will be choosing June's theme.

1 - Algarve Images 25 points
2 - Janet Petty 24 points
3 - Danny Raphael 9 points

[Veralisa]

Congratulations! Well earned and most deserved. Each of your photos was spectacular.

[learninlady]

Congrats Algarve Images!
I was trying to find the photos and cant find them to reference which one won!
It might be nice to add the photos along with the results

[WendyBobz]

Well done Gary - and everybody else too -lots of excellent photos this month.

[CathyH]

Great Job.

[Janet Petty]

Congratulations and Well Done, Gary.

Thank you everyone for participating. We did well this month.

Janet

[Algarve Images]

Hi everyone,
thank you all so much for the votes, i've been a bit down recently as my father is in hospital for heart surgery and i havn't had any time for the computer, this is a nice surprise as all the entries were of an exceptionally high standard...also thanks to Frank who chose this months theme, landscapes for me as i was unable to answer emails for a few days..
Best of luck to everybody in this months comp,
regards,
Gary...

[Sweetlight]

Congrats to Algarve and all of the beautiful submissions.
For those who inquired, the image is completely unworked except for spotting, and exposure correction.
No lensbaby, just 16mm lens shot while I scooted around betweent blossoms, snakes and fire ants.


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