Title: POTN Powershot Speed Challenge #123 - SILHOUETTES

[quarters]

Challenge #123 - SILHOUETTES

For this weeks challenge I would like to see your best color silhouette. Subject can be anything you like. Composition is important to me so it should be for you also.

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

Post until Monday noon GMT, 19 MAY 2008.

Photo Submissions
1. Camera -- Any Canon Powershot Series Camera (SD, A-series, S1/2, & S-series only...No Pro 1's!!!)

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 and no more than 200K in size with NO BORDERS. Here is some help for resizing your photos in Photoshop - http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...9&postcount=26 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=663519&postcount=26)

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. Notes -- Name and camera you used and any other information pertaining to the photo...location, photo tips, brief EXIF data ect.

7. Commenting -- No commenting during challenge. When the posting is closed, comments can be made in this thread.
Time

One challenge every week, on the following schedule:

New Topic ... After winner is declared.
Posting Starts ... Right after topic is announced.
Posting Stops ... Monday noon GMT
Winners Announcement ... As soon as possible after the contest has been closed.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please consider turning on Private Messaging in your profile.
This will allow the host to contact you about winning or ineligible photos. You turn this feature on by clicking "User CP, Edit Options, Enable Private Messaging" (about a third of the way down the page). Thank you.
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Quarters

[Neel350]

Name:- Ray of Gold
Camera:- A 720IS,1/249sec,f/8.0,ISO80

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p266/dissel_2007/Sunset.jpg

[pjs2]

Broken sky
s3is

[HuskerTony]

Boy with Fireworks
S2-IS F8, 2 Sec

[stanley_pope]

Canon S3

Stan

[Edd S]

Title: Seen Better Days
Camera: Canon S2IS

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f31/Edd_S/silhouette4.jpg

[DreDaze]

s2is 1/400 f4
no title <==my title...

[gjh1020]

S2IS
Exposure Time: 0.0010 s (1/1000)
Aperture: f/6.3
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l100/gjh810/potn/9a623c2c.jpg

[Micky Daeus]

S3 IS
1/640
F4.0
P Mode
Cropped out some cityscape, couldn't master cloning successfully to get the rest.

[quarters]

Challenge is closed. I will have the winner later today

[quarters]

Ok finally back home on a decent monitor. My choices are

1st - Ray of Gold, Neel350
2nd - Seen better days, EDD S
3rd - Blue Angel Star, gjh1020

Thanks to everyone for entering a picture. Honorable mention Stanley( I would like to know what you did to make the back ground look like that?)

quarters, on to you Neel350

[gjh1020]

Thanks for the 3rd place, quarters. I have to agree with your top two...Congrats Neel350.

[stanley_pope]

Congratulations to the winners, Quarters this shot was basically out of the camera, the sun was low on the horizon
Stan

[DigitalDisaster]

Good picks on the pics quarters. Glad I didn't have to judge this week. Some great entries.

[Neel350]

:D:D:D:D

Thanks quarters for giving me the first place...I never thought that, As I am noob in forum and the photographic world(and this is my 1st time submission in any challenge)...What I excepted for my shot is a good criticism.

According to the shot, No post processing in computer....only crop lower portion using GIMP...coz there are some cable hanging out in the original shot.

Thanks gjh1020....Your composition is too interesting

According To My eyes (Consider as I am newbie)

Seen Better Days:- Great Variations of Colors
Blue Angel Star :- Interesting Subject Matter
Broken Sky:- Nice Concept

Moon Silhouette:- Outstanding Beauty.

[Jon]

Thanks to everyone for entering a picture. Honorable mention Stanley( I would like to know what you did to make the back ground look like that?)

quarters, on to you Neel350

Congratulations to the winners, Quarters this shot was basically out of the camera, the sun was low on the horizon
StanI'm guessing quarters is referring to the "banding" in the sky. If so, that isn't uncommon when a JPEG image is compressed a lot, as your shot might have been to get it within the rules.

[BBoi]

I don't know why we cant use JPG 2000 - the browser plugins are as freely available now as java, shockwave and flash, and JP2 offers far superior quality to it's poorer quality cousin, in the same filesize.

The only downside I could see to it is you'd need to use html 'embed' command rather than the more formal (IMG), and that means allowing people to access html on the board. Some boards can say which commands are allowed to be used, mine does that, but some may not.

Anyway, worth a gander :)

Firefox
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/JPEG2000/mozilla_plugin.htm

IE
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/JPEG2000/

Examples here:
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/JPEG2000/J2K_samples.htm
(in honesty, most of the samples don't do justice, but look at the bottom one of the girl for 16k,
and the tiger halfway up for 48k - not baaaaaad)

Use in Webpages is here:
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/JPEG2000/J2K_how-to.htm

[Jon]

Well, the posted photo's only 32K, with an allowable limit of 150K (POTN Attachment limits, which are stricter than contest limits), so it was certainly compressed more than was necessary.

[Jon]

I've sent a PM to Neel350 reminding him he needs to post the next challenge. If he hasn't managed to do so by Noon, GMT on Thursday May 22, I'll ask Edd S to start one, to run until Noon GMT next Tuesday instead of the usual Monday, so the time isn't quite so short. After that, the schedule should return to the usual Monday finish.

[woke]

Coconut Trees



Im a new man here, so consider this is my introduction :D