PhOTW: Week 19 Entry

Speedtouch · March 8, 2009

WEEK NINETEEN

Rules:

Photo MUST be taken by you.
Any post processing allowed.
No Voting for yourself!
Photo sizes kept to 800x640 maximum. No thumbnails please. Your photo will not be entered if it exceeds this.
Winner chooses next theme (by PMing me). If someone wins twice in a row, the person they voted for chooses the next theme.
If you post many photos, the top one will be chosen as your entry, but you have until the closing date to choose.
Photos cannot be used twice for two different subjects.

Tell me if I've missed anything, thanks!

I ask for this contest to be a trigger of intelligence and creativity, and not just a fluke you got years ago. Please go out and take photos, not just take them out of your archives. Thanks.

Well looks like I won. Great photo in close second from Mb though! Hmm, what shall I have this week...?

This week's theme:

Light

Light is a wonderful thing. So play around with it. Use anything to reflect, refract etc light. Be creative!

Closing Date: 15th March.

Good luck!

Entrants:

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zo6dude · March 8, 2009

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii107/corvette1_2008/Picture735.jpg

Speedtouch · March 8, 2009

I will make it clear, It would be much preferred if the subject of the photo was light, and as I said, to make people go out and take photos for the theme. I may want to set a rule whereby you must take the photo during the contest time, which means that there will be no 'finding flukes in your archives'.

zo6dude · March 9, 2009

UGGH fine:rolleyes: i'll go take a pic

hpluls · March 9, 2009

Can it be a photo from last Friday? I took a photo on that day which I'd like to enter...

And3rs · March 9, 2009

Haha Highline will be happy! xD

Congrats for winning ;)

Speedtouch · March 9, 2009

HTF I said I was thinking about introducing that rule. Enter what you like, but I think that this contest should not be any different from things like the PTOTW one by which you [should] take the photo after the theme is set. Taking photos to a theme is harder and more developing that matching that theme to a photo.

hpluls · March 9, 2009

Okay, this will do then:

(Not my dog ;))

HighlineDSG · March 9, 2009

Haha Highline will be happy! xD
Congrats for winning ;)

Why would I be happy?

Car Freak · March 10, 2009

Great pic HTF! I don't know how you managed to get the lens flare, but it looks good! You could probably stand a better chance by editing basic elements like contrast and colour saturation though. Then the picture will REALLY pop!

BobbyV · March 10, 2009

LOL that sure is an enlightened dog :D:cool:

Yeah Happy u should do some fine adjustments with that photo and make it DIVINE :thumbsup:

And3rs · March 10, 2009

Why would I be happy?

The theme is light. ;)

hpluls · March 10, 2009

Thanks for the compliments CF and Bobby... :D I might try editing it, but I've never done this kinda stuff before, so I'll see what can I do ;)

EDIT: I've added some contrast to it, I think it looks a bit less "milky" this way... what do you think?

HighlineDSG · March 10, 2009

The theme is light. ;)

uhm, and??

BobbyV · March 10, 2009

I've added some contrast to it, I think it looks a bit less "milky" this way... what do you think?

actually I was talking about something more like this :cheeky:

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/wroomster/PToTW/bhf1ms-1.jpg

hope u don't mind I played with ur photo

there's lot u can do with Photoshop, this is only an example

hpluls · March 10, 2009

I don't mind ;) Looks nice, but the colors are a bit... purple :p BTW I resized my pic to fit forum rules.

BobbyV · March 10, 2009

I love purple snow :nuts: but this could be fixed...;)

edit: fixed a bit

Speedtouch · March 10, 2009

This is my entry for now. I will probably change it, but I thought I'd get something in now.

Light%20Bulb.jpg

That was straight out of the camera.

The Queen · March 10, 2009

Had a go at editing yours HTF. I want to see what you think.

Only a 5 minute job but this shows the capabilities of Photoshop. ;)

The annoying thing is, you saved the photo in Paint which drastically lowers the quality and doesn't give a very good base to work on in Photoshop so this is about all I could come up with.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t270/TheScottishSpotter/rle2i1edit1.jpg

(Linked. As it is too large in filesize to be embedded.)

a nugget · March 11, 2009

here mine

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp196/Spoon_Fit/IMG_2682.jpg?t=1236741598

hpluls · March 11, 2009

Had a go at editing yours HTF. I want to see what you think.
Only a 5 minute job but this shows the capabilities of Photoshop. ;)

The annoying thing is, you saved the photo in Paint which drastically lowers the quality and doesn't give a very good base to work on in Photoshop so this is about all I could come up with.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t270/TheScottishSpotter/rle2i1edit1.jpg

(Linked. As it is too large in filesize to be embedded.)

Thanks, I think it looks good :D What parameters did you adjust? But I didn't save it in Paint... I used Paint.NET ;) I still have the original picture, so I might try GIMP for resizing and see if it's any better ;)

EDIT: I tried GIMP, and I think it's much better for resizing than Paint.NET... I'll use it from now on :D The pic is now a bit smaller, but better quality... and it's exactly 350 KB :p