POTN G-series Speed Challenge #212 - Macro shot

[macroshot]

Challenge #212 - Macro shot

For this week, please post your best macro shot (I've been wanting to have this challenge for a while now - seriously - and since I cannot post, well...) All the cameras involved have a macro function (or something close enough for our purposes) so let's see what you have and hopefully we'll be able to determine what the subject is :p.
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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, 02 March 2009.


Photo Submissions

Camera -- Canon G-Series Camera (G1, G2, G3, G5, G6, G7, G9, G10) or Pro 1 only.
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Time -- any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.
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Size -- photo must be EXACTLY 800 pixels on the longest side, with NO BORDERS.
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Post-Processing -- do whatever you like and the host will decide if it works.
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Posting --
One photo per photographer in each challenge.
Photo Title in the message subject line.
Camera model.
EXIF data, if you like.
Commenting -- No commenting on photos by anyone, including the photographer. Once the winners are declared, photographers can add comments to their images and everyone is invited to discuss.
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Photo Display -- Photos must appear in this thread to be eligible.
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One challenge every week, on the following schedule:

New Topic ... As soon as possible after winning.
Posting Starts ... Right after topic is announced.
Posting Stops ... Monday noon GMT
Winners Announcement ... Tuesday noon GMT.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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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Click this sentence for Hosting Rules and Winners List. (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=113480)

Click this sentence for Discussion of Rules thread. (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=59640)

OK folks, I have the winning entries ready for posting. Thanks to everyone for their images this week - good stuff all around. These are the ones that really grabbed me:

First Place: MFor (Bzyy) -- why can't I do this? Sharp as a tack, amazing detail, an absolutely amazing image from a G-Series camera.

Second Place: Gloubiboulga (Enjoy your meal) -- Again I ask "why can't I do this?" An incredible runner up shot that really had me hooked. I am not going to ask if that is a fly in its grasp...

Third Place: NJdez (Droplets) -- very abstract and a very cool image. I like the blue on gray coloring. Well done.

[Echostrung]

G10 1/5 - f/5.0 - iso 100

[Mike53545]

G10 ISO 80 1/20 F4.5

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/mgnphoto/laser_macro.jpg

[10megapixel]

G10
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i199/laserbug/bordered-1024x.jpg

[MFor]

G9, 1/40 sec., F 5, ISO 100
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/783/bzyy.jpg

[NJdez]

Canon G10
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/3076780656_18b12f608b_o.jpg

[Randall n LV]

Canon G9 1/25" , 5.6

[Maureen Souza]

Pro 1

[athrasher]

G10

http://bottlecap.typepad.com/pics/lenspic.jpg

[marie]

G2
1/160 f/4

http://www.pbase.com/image/109617422/original.jpg

[PicBug]

G9
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hFFU9IxiEtI/SadaoJGuX2I/AAAAAAAAIt0/H9wnDrRgVyY/s800/IMG_0056.JPG

[forestmat]

http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv77/forestmat/rustyspring2.jpg

[FourStrings]

Canon G10 f/4, 1/40sec, ISO100

[Car]

G7

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc306/biya_photos/coffee.jpg

[grandadraymond]

G6 The nut

[ahobden]

G10 f8 1/30

[teekay]

Camera: G1

http://community.netidea.com/teekay/temp/Tarantula.jpg

[Michael Wells]

G9
346042

[Boutty]

Canon G6 + reversed 40mm lens

[Kevan_G9]

G9:

[oleander]

G9.

[Gloubiboulga]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3321610343_8417da359e_o.jpg

[ryandood]

G10

[K-Holed]

Canon Powershot G9

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/K-Holed/Macro-Frog.jpg

[macroshot]

Good morning everyone, this week's challenge is now closed.

I previously posted that the image submitted by K-Holed was ineligble based on the posting time (it displayed on my PC as 06:27). However, the image was posted at 05:27 CST (11:27 in England) so the image is eligible and yours truly acknowledges his error. Thanks.

Hank

[macroshot]

Winning images have been posted! Thanks to all. See you in a couple of weeks - I am off to the Caribbean in a few days for some fun in the sun. It's been a long winter...with more yet to come.

[Michael Wells]

Congrats to MFor, Gloubiboulga, and NJdez! Thanks, Macroshot, for hosting and judging. Good call on your placings! Now, about your trip to the Islands...Remember in school when you had to bring treats for everyone? How many tickets you got, man??:D Seriously...Enjoy!!

Mike

[NJdez]

Congrats to MFor and Gloubiboulga! And thank you for 3rd place Macroshot.
MFor...that image blew me away. To be honest I didnt think that it actually came
from a G series camera until I checked out your exif data. was this shot with a
macro or reverse lens? the DOF is perfect and the magnification is awesome!

[Gloubiboulga]

Thanks Macroshot for hosting, judging and placing my shot in this excellent challenge! :)
I too checked exif data on MFor's photo to believe this could be possible! :D Congrats to him and NJdez!

[MFor]

Thanks! :oops: Congratulations for every one! :)

... was this shot with a macro or reverse lens? the DOF is perfect and the magnification is awesome!

Standard camera with macro mode and without any extra lenses... but image edited in PhotoShop. To be honest, this photo originally doesn't have that DOF and sharpness. ;)

[FourStrings]

Congratulations to you all wonderful photo's!

[NJdez]

Thanks! :oops: Congratulations for every one! :)



Standard camera with macro mode and without any extra lenses... but image edited in PhotoShop. To be honest, this photo originally doesn't have that DOF and sharpness. ;)
ahhh i see....
the shot with that magnified look and that circular DOF strongly resembles
that of an image coming from a reversed lens...which is why i asked. the color
accent worked well here too

[K-Holed]

These images have been amazing. It's definately given me the incentive to keep learning my camera and discover what it's capable of.

[Kevan_G9]

jeepers-creepers look at those peepers...

An amazing fix on the fly, Mfor. Congrats to the other winners. Tasty looking morsel that spidey is about to undertake. Yummy! NJdez what's the deal with the droplets, how'dja do it? Very cool.

[teekay]

Congratulations to the winners - some truly amazing shots this week!

[Gloubiboulga]

... but image edited in PhotoShop. To be honest, this photo originally doesn't have that DOF and sharpness. ;)
You don't really have to precise this as it is obvious that there's a postprod job behind your photo…*but WHAT A EXCELLENT JOB! :D ;)
These images have been amazing. It's definately given me the incentive to keep learning my camera and discover what it's capable of.
I think you've already discovered a lot about your G9! Your photo is so sharp and has so beautiful colors! ;)

[marie]

:)


Congratulations to the winner MFor

placings #2 Gloubiboulga and # 3 NJdez
they are all terrific photos

:cool:


hope you and family have a great trip Hank (Macroshot)
many thanks for a hosting and judging this difficult challenge ...so many great entries
thought Gloubiboulgas wonderful too especially as its not always easy get the background like so when photographing spiders.. just great
shows so much detail in the web (and spider) lol

welcome to the new members

welcome back and congratulations on the new baby daughter Carolyn :cool:
your photo is excellent. loved it

all the best

[Gloubiboulga]

Thanks marie :)
The hardest job in this photo was keeping steady on my ladder (this Araneus Diadematus was just under the roof of my garage…) while trying to get as close as possible to the spider whithout touching the web.

[Kevan_G9]

Thanks marie :)
The hardest job in this photo was keeping steady on my ladder (this Araneus Diadematus was just under the roof of my garage…) while trying to get as close as possible to the spider whithout touching the web.

While on a bicycle?

Sorry...old joke.

[Gloubiboulga]

… not on a bicycle ; but trying to keep my 2 years old son busy far away from the ladder! :D

[Kevan_G9]

A 2yr old running rampant under your ladder too???

I think Gloub's photo needs to be bumped up in the ratings folks.

[Mike53545]

Congrtas to the winners!! :D All of the photos were cool

[marie]

Thanks marie :)
The hardest job in this photo was keeping steady on my ladder (this Araneus Diadematus was just under the roof of my garage…) while trying to get as close as possible to the spider whithout touching the web.


thanks for that description Gloubiboulga
now thats extraordinary because almost the very same thing happened me
one day a few years ago
from the kitchen I saw a huge spider hanging in a web on the high wall outside which was between the carport roof of a neighbour and our side passage, his side a kind of garage
I got a chair from the kitchen brought it outside and balanced on it on very shaky ground while trying to get shots of mr spider.. hanging in there
lol

the background turned out terrific because of the situation and position

:D

A 2yr old running rampant under your ladder too

I think Gloub's photo needs to be bumped up in the ratings folks.

its way up there already

:p:lol:

[Car]

:)



welcome back and congratulations on the new baby daughter Carolyn :cool:

all the best

Thank you Marie and congratulations to the winners. The standard of photography here is always superb but this week was exceptional. I literally had 5 minutes to take a few shots of my 'coffee' candle - coffee being the only thing keeping me going since the lil one appeared 3 weeks early at the end of january :shock:
Hope I don't offend by hijacking the thread with a photo of the new arrival and her big sister - mod, feel free to move if so.
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc306/biya_photos/IMG_2708.jpg

[Kevan_G9]

Congrats Carolyn; that's a wonderful family you have there.

I'm terribly sorry to read that you're going to be distracted from your photography. ;-)

Oh, there is a rule about no kittens, puppies, or babies permitted in photo challenges...isn't there? LOL!

[marie]

Thank you Marie and congratulations to the winners. The standard of photography here is always superb but this week was exceptional. I literally had 5 minutes to take a few shots of my 'coffee' candle - coffee being the only thing keeping me going since the lil one appeared 3 weeks early at the end of january :shock:
Hope I don't offend by hijacking the thread with a photo of the new arrival and her big sister - mod, feel free to move if so.


how beautiful is that :D:cool:

thanks Carolyn
really gorgeous to have that photo of the two beautiful girls

(keep drinking the coffee)
:lol:

[MFor]

You don't really have to precise this as it is obvious that there's a postprod job behind your photo…*but WHAT A EXCELLENT JOB! ...

Thanks again! Editing in PS took me about 10 min. :D

I wasn't sure which photo I should put here. :rolleyes:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4186/43755118.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9184/42671676.jpg

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4692/87886920.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6050/91204110.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6026/64451365.jpg

I know, to much cropped jpg's. I have to learn more about RAW. ;)

[Echostrung]

All great photos Mfor, love the fly on the sock in particular. May I ask what in particualr you do for pp in ps? Also nice topic for the new challenge.

[MFor]

... May I ask what in particualr you do for pp in ps? ...

Usually... first I rotate and crope the picture to perspective nice for me, after that I play with each color - saturation etc (ctrl U), levels (ctrl L), sharpness, blurring, everything in parts of photo which I want to.

Sometimes I do something more. ;)

[PicBug]

Congrats everyone - what beautiful work. I love macro shots too. Gloub, I try to take spidey pics, and end up with yuck, so I admire your spideys.

Car, thanks for sharing your beautiful blessings. Nice job. We are like family here I don't mind you shared!

Mfor, #2 on post #48, the red eyes actually pop out of my monitor in 3-D. Anyone else see that or am I getting old?

[Michael Wells]

Congratulations, Carolyn! I was going to ask if baby had arrived yet, but hadn't gotten there yet. Beautiful child!! I'll bet big sister will be a lot of help to you now!

Mike

[Gloubiboulga]

A 2yr old running rampant under your ladder too???

I think Gloub's photo needs to be bumped up in the ratings folks.

:lol:

... Gloub, I try to take spidey pics, and end up with yuck, so I admire your spideys...

Thank you ;)


... And, of course : Congrats Car! Fantastic "moments" in life, followed by SO MUCH fatigue!... :D

[NJdez]

NJdez what's the deal with the droplets, how'dja do it? Very cool.
thanks man.
this is a shot of the drivers winodw of my car after some light rain overnight.
it was taken in the parking lot at CNBC before i took off for the day...in the
larger droplets you can see a light post and some clouds.

shot as a JPG in widescreen with a no name macro lens that gives around 10x
magnification (lens that came with my old wideangle head i converted to a fisheye).
then some work in PS to get the colors, contrast, and feel i was going for.

[Maureen Souza]

Thank you Marie and congratulations to the winners. The standard of photography here is always superb but this week was exceptional. I literally had 5 minutes to take a few shots of my 'coffee' candle - coffee being the only thing keeping me going since the lil one appeared 3 weeks early at the end of january :shock:
Hope I don't offend by hijacking the thread with a photo of the new arrival and her big sister - mod, feel free to move if so.
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc306/biya_photos/IMG_2708.jpg
Beautiful work there, Carolyn :)

[PlayersZ28]

oops

[Car]

Congrats Carolyn; that's a wonderful family you have there.

I'm terribly sorry to read that you're going to be distracted from your photography. ;-)

Oh, there is a rule about no kittens, puppies, or babies permitted in photo challenges...isn't there? LOL!
LOL Kevan - it's not just photography I'm distracted from - it's everything:o


really gorgeous to have that photo of the two beautiful girls

(keep drinking the coffee)


I am - it's the only thing keeping me going!


Car, thanks for sharing your beautiful blessings. Nice job. We are like family here I don't mind you shared!


Thank you:D

Congratulations, Carolyn! I was going to ask if baby had arrived yet, but hadn't gotten there yet. Beautiful child!! I'll bet big sister will be a lot of help to you now!

Mike
She's a great help Mike, and loving the fact that she is the BIG sister!

:lol:



Thank you ;)


... And, of course : Congrats Car! Fantastic "moments" in life, followed by SO MUCH fatigue!..

You're not kidding, :no wonder they use sleep deprivation as a form of torture:cry:

Beautiful work there, Carolyn :)

Thanks Maureen:D

Thanks everyone for your kind wishes, I'll try my best to keep up with the challenges !!
Carolyn xx

[jkdurden]

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Canon PowerShot G10 ISO: 200 1/13 sec f/2.8