March 2010 Photo Competition: Entries

[Frank Lopes]

Theme:

• Retail Environments
  As Southbay puts it, "This could be marketplace, storefront, shop window, produce stand, beach peddler, open air/farmers' market...the mall...any place or occasion where something is sold."

Entry Period:

• March 2nd, 2010 to March 28 6:00pm EST

Voting Period:

• March 28, 2010 to March 31 6:00pm EST

Discussion Period:

• March 2nd, 2010 to March 31 6:00pm EST

Voting Tabulation:

• Vote for the 3 entries you like the best by considering how well it fits with the chosen theme and how well the technical details were handled.

• Votes are weighted to give greater weight to First Place votes than to Second and greater weight to Second than to Third place votes:
  • First Place 4 points
  • Second Place 2 points
  • Third Place 1 point

• In case of a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "first place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "second place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "third place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person that first posted his/her entry

• The winner will be notified via retouchpro.com's private messaging and will choose a subject for the following month.

Tips & Rules:

• Be sure to make your entry as large as possible within the forum's restriction.

• Each member may submit only one entry for this competition but you may change your entry up until the deadline.

• The usual "copyright" requirements apply. You must have shot the picture or have the rights to it. Honour system applies.

• Since this is a learning forum, we'd love to have the technical details: shutter speed, ISO, f-stop etc.

• This is NOT the forum for photo art filters or art programs and this is NOT the place to showcase your abilities with layers, masks, collages or overlays of multiple images.

• Entries may be deleted if they do not meet criteria.

• The winner gets to choose the next assignment PLUS all the accolades that come from being chosen "Winner".

• Please post your photo submissions without commentary and instead use the Discussion thread for comments on your photo or other photographer's photos.

• All RetouchPro members may take part in the competition and all members may vote, whether they have submitted an entry or not.

[Southbay]

Hope this month's theme isn't too obtuse. I was just thinking about shooting anything you'd see in a shopping environment, stores, people, merchandise...

Canon S90 / P mode / RAW conversion in Lightroom

[crazyfly1]

Street vendors in NYC.
1/30 sec
f/2.1
ISO 100
14mm

[DannyRaphael]

Storefront in downtown Seattle, Washington.

Fuji D100 pocket camera
f/5.6
1/60 sec

[Frank Lopes]

Shot in the fall of 2009 at local Renaissance Faire

Camera
Model NIKON D70s
Image
Exposure time 1/100 s
F-number f/5
Focal length in 35mm film 84 mm
Lens 18-70 mm

[CathyH]

Here is what I have that I like best. I took this last summer.

[Frank Lopes]

And the winner is: Frank Lopes

Frank 9
Danny 8
Cathy 3
South 1

Frank was contacted and will select April's theme.