POTN Powershot Speed Challenge #6 - Emotion

[hhf]

POTN Powershot Speed Challenge #6 - Emotion

I want to be able to look at the picture and have it convey a feeling. Whether it's happy, sad, love, hate, angry, etc. It doesn't have to be people either. It could be a place, animal, etc.
Good luck and have fun!

To submit, click "Post Reply" and put your Photo Name in the Subject Line. Don't forget your Camera Model.

Post until noon GMT, Monday, 20 February 2006.

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Photo Submissions

1. Camera -- photos must be taken with a Any Canon Powershot Series Camera (SD, A-series, S1/2, & S-series only)


2. Time -- any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.

3. Size -- photo must be EXACTLY 800 pixels on the longest side, with NO BORDERS.

4. Post-Processing -- do whatever you like and the host will decide if it works.

5. Posting --

ONE PHOTO per photographer in each challenge.
Photo Name in the message subject line.
Camera model.

6. Commenting by Photographers -- While name and camera are all that are required, you're welcome to add any hints, story, special techniques, location, EXIF data.

7. No Commenting by others -- When the posting is closed, comments can be made in this thread.

Time

One challenge every week, on the following schedule:
New Topic ... Tuesday by midnight GMT.
Posting Starts ... Right after topic is announced.
Posting Stops ... Sunday midnight GMT
Winner Announcement ... Monday by midnight GMT.
POTN Powershot Speed Challenge Rules: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=136865 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=136865)

POTN Powershot Hosting Rules: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=136860 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=136860)

POTN Powershot Winners List and Rankings: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...34#post1140834__________________

[Action_Man]

Contentment ...

56884

[dinobike]

Canon a620
Manual mode
aperture 4.1 shutter speed 1/125
zoom 4x
lens adapter w/ polarizer filter
fill in flash

[Edd S]

Here's my entry.

Title: Faces Full of Joy!
Camera: Canon S2IS
Settings: F 2.7 shutter 1/125
Post Processing: Darkened me a little - cropped - sharpened slightly

Background: While in Ghana, West Africa last December I went to visit a school. Upon seeing me (a white man) the school children came running out to meet me. I put the camera on top of the taxi, set the timer and the camera took this shot as the kids gleefully mobbed me! It was a precious and joyful moment indeed.

Thanks for viewing,

- Edd Sterchi, Harrisburg, IL

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f31/Edd_S/eddkids2.jpg

[John C]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jcampion/images/potn_comp/pton6k.jpg

Info:
Camera: Canon Powershot A610
Settings: Manual, F/4.1, 4.0 seconds
Post Processing: Cropped, Sharpened, Resized to required comp size.

[frs]

Women playing drums

Canon S2 IS
F/3.5
1/60 sec.

[nwyman]

The wonder of photographing a toad!

S2 IS
AP 3.5
TV 1/40

[Diminished29]

Camera model: Canon PowerShot A610
Flash used: No
Focal length: 29.2mm
Shutter 1/100
Aperture: f/4.1

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e347/Diminished29/Portraits/heather23.jpg

[Stefan A]

Title: Hey - where did my friends go?
Camera: S2IS
F/3.5 & 1/500 sec.
No Flash

[snowrdr]

Canon S2IS
F/3.5
1/60 sec

Tasha and her pet Ball Python having some crazy fun

http://www.pbase.com/image/56197284.jpg

[getting-started]

"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare


My Powershot A400 was used with automatic settings.

[t-bonestahl]

A620
Post Processing: Converted to B&W

http://static.flickr.com/31/101194645_03a02adb7f_o.jpg

[aradia]

Premature Fatigue

Camera: Canon S2 IS
Date: Feb 12, 2006
Background: It had snowed from 6PM Saturday to around noon Sunday, so the whole family piled on the clothes and went out to shovel (except me, who took photos). My stepmom got about this far and called it quits, citing exhaustion and frostbite!! :lol:

http://www.boomspeed.com/quccibaq/karen.jpg

[teekay]

A95
http://community.netidea.com/teekay/temp/Pride.jpg

[Ansh]

Standing in Solitude among the dead
Waiting for a better life ahead. . .

Canon Powershot S2 IS
My Colors mode

[Moppie]

Happy Introspection
A80
1/250th
F8

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/emotion.jpg

[hhf]

I just want to say that there were some great pictures this week and congrats to everyone.
This was really hard, as some pictures were great photo's in general but maybe didn't capture the challenge as much as others. Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to

1) Edd S - Faces Full of Joy

2) Action_Man - Contentment

3) John C - Cliche'

[Edd S]

Wow! I'm humbled and honored!

I will post the next challenge by tomorrow at this time.

- Edd S.

[Diminished29]

Congrats Edd S! It truely was a great capture and I don't think there was one kid who wasn't smiling or laughing.

Congrats to Action_Man for your 2nd place entry and to John C for your 3rd place finish

[nwyman]

congrats to all the winners! My skills are improving - I'm learning to tell which shots are best, even if mine aren't among 'em. <g>

Nancy

[_SBradley_]

Well done, everyone! Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to enter an image this week, but I did enjoy looking at all your entries. :)

[Diminished29]

Yeah, I was wondering where you were off to Simon! I'm sure you'll have something up your sleeve for next week though. :lol:

[snowrdr]

Nice work everyone! I really enjoy seeing the different ideas each photo brings forward. It seems each new challenge brings out better and better entries!
Congrats to the top three! :D

[John C]

Wow! That's a nice surprise! I think Edd S' entry a very worthy winner - it's a beautiful shot, and the emotion of it leaps out at you from the page. Chad nailed it when he points out that there isn't a single kid who isn't smiling - it must have been a lovely moment, and the picture really captures that. There was lots to like in this week's competition I thought - I really struggled to come up with my shot (I really did feel it was a cliched take on "love", hence the title) and it was interesting to see what everyone else did with it.

For anyone interested in a bit of backstory, the book of poetry is the one I gave my wife on our first Valentine's Day together, and the rose is from this past Valentine's day (awwww :) ).

I tried a number of setups for this shot (taken on a coffee table in the lounge and lit with a tiffany lamp - that provides the nice golden tint) including other poetry books in the frame and in some a couple of CDs, but the overall effect was too busy. I also tried having the book in focus and the rose blurred, but frankly, that looked silly :)

It's also the first time I've used a proper tripod (a £20 job from Jessops) - much nicer than the little wirepod I was using, which is now being relegated to the camera bag for holiday use only! The eventual entry was cropped slightly to remove some of the wood of the table that was showing, and here we are :)

[Diminished29]

Ha. Wirepod. So, thats what you call those things. Thats what I call my "tripod". Fornately, I've only found it viable during one of my shots. For the rest I just sucked it up and handheld the thing. :)

[John C]

Also bendypod, flexi-pod, mini-tripod :)

They're ok, but a "proper" tripod gives a lot more options for framing the shot & using different points of view without stacking furniture/books under the wirepod. I've been doing a lot of long (2 seconds plus) exposure stuff lately, and having the tripod has made all that experimentation possible.

[Ansh]

Congratulations to the winners. The weekly competition is really bringing out the best in all of us. All the best for the next one.

[Diminished29]

Well, reason for this I believe is that we're all starting to discuss our pictures and setups more and how we obtained the results that we did. Its really great to see everyone progressing as photographers!

[nwyman]

Well, reason for this I believe is that we're all starting to discuss our pictures and setups more and how we obtained the results that we did. Its really great to see everyone progressing as photographers!

Well, SOME of us might be said to be progressing.
And some of us are going backwards!:o
But hey- at least I'm learning how to use emoticons!:lol:

Nancy

[John C]

I think the key is to mess about (posh people call this "experimentation" :D )

I found out the other day that having outdoors pictures taken with the "tungsten" white balance option gives everything a really interesting blue tint;

http://static.flickr.com/24/102316962_85ce6ac06b_m.jpg with "tungsten" wb http://static.flickr.com/36/102317203_030f8c891f_m.jpg without

(This one taken on a day where sky was a uniform battleship grey - typical Manchester)

Also - did you change your entry, Chad? I'm seeing it as the portrait you posted a while back rather than your "Sorrow" pic.

[nwyman]

[quote=John C]I think the key is to mess about (posh people call this "experimentation" :D )

I found out the other day that having outdoors pictures taken with the "tungsten" white balance option gives everything a really interesting blue tint;

http://static.flickr.com/24/102316962_85ce6ac06b_m.jpg with "tungsten" wb http://static.flickr.com/36/102317203_030f8c891f_m.jpg without

Ahem.
I took no less than 65 shots of a flock of Snow Geese on Sunday (bright and sunny that day), only to discover when I got home, that I'd used the tungsten wb.
Sheesh.

Nancy

[John C]

I hereby award you the title of "Top Experimenter" Nancy :)

Mine was a pure accident too - I forgot I'd left that setting on there last time I used the manual mode :o

[Diminished29]

To bad our cameras don't have RAW, as this wouldn't be a problem then. I've made this mistake a few times myself. Although it gave me a cool effect in a few of the pictures. :D

[_SBradley_]

The S50/S60/S70 have RAW support. Unfortunately, Canon dropped it from the S80 -- so I have no intentions of upgrading to that one, as I shoot RAW exclusively.

[Diminished29]

The S50/S60/S70 have RAW support. Unfortunately, Canon dropped it from the S80 -- so I have no intentions of upgrading to that one, as I shoot RAW exclusively.

I stand corrected. I completely forgot. I guess I was refering to the later bunch of A and S1/2 series cameras seeing as those are "crowd favorites" here. :o

[BARBIE]

taken with s450

[Action_Man]

The winner was quite outstanding and a worthy winner indeed, thank you for voting me 2nd in this competition ...

[Jethro790]

How can I see the winning photo? Aren't all the photos on one web page somewhere?

[nwyman]

How can I see the winning photo? Aren't all the photos on one web page somewhere?

look at the stickies on the top of this list.

Nancy

[nwyman]

Whoops! Seems I was in error. It's just a list of the winners in th sticky.

Isn't someone hosting the winning pics on a blog somewhere?

nancy

[Jethro790]

Right, that's what I am having trouble with. I found it by going to the posted submission by the name in the list, but I probably won't go through that again. It would be easy to do up a down and dirty web page with the 3 winners.

[Diminished29]

I could set up something on photobucket.com, but my only concern would be bandwidth contraits. Other than that photobucket is probably the most reliable free hosting site I've dealt with in a while.

Chad