Photo Comp - June - 'Technicolour'

[HGFB]

I like this one. It fits the contest theme perfectly.

[nyarla]

[bumblebee]

Like this one a lot!

[nyarla]

Thanks bumblebee!

I didn't take it specifically for this compo sadly, it's from a few months ago.. I've given my camera to someone and everything's all grey and wintery here at the moment anyway Thought of it as soon as I saw this compo's theme.

[RiK]

Awesome. Love it.

[aureole]

Bumblebee - can you describe your shot a bit more? I know nothing about composition so I was wondering why the main focus element is where it is, compared with, say, Rik's tighter crop.

[bumblebee]

Bumblebee - can you describe your shot a bit more? I know nothing about composition so I was wondering why the main focus element is where it is, compared with, say, Rik's tighter crop.

Hmm. To be honest, it is mostly a gut thing with me, but in this case there is a loose rule-of-thirds thing as well, as the main point is in the lower left corner. The reason I shot it this way (and I did not crop afterwards) is to get some juxtaposition between the tiny geranium flower and the multitude of similar tiny flowers further in the picture, which I use as a background. If I have cropped it close, the whole flower would have been equally important. Or, um not

I am not good at explaining such things

[disciple]

I'll chuck this in for now, taken a while back though.

[Xstreme]

That's beautiful bumblebee, I like the composition as well.

nyarla - I'm also loving those pegs - may I ask what camera you used? The muted colours look a little 'lomo'.

[PVB]

I love the look of nyarla's one; as there's no frame of reference, the pegs (especially the blue one in the middle) look huge.

I'm at the South of England Show at Ardingly on Friday, so hope to get a pic I can enter from there.

[Meow]

I'll enter this one. Still not 100% sure it fits the Technicolour theme tho...

The peg one is the best so far....

I like this one. It fits the contest theme perfectly.

Perhaps not, although Art Deco really was Technicolour of the 1920's......we're not talking 1960's here. But no I don't think it fits in hindsight...spur of the moment posting...

[nyarla]

Thanks guys! I'm a bit surprised, the whole pegs pic feels slightly out of whack to me, not too good composition-wise.. wasn't really sure about the cropping either. Still, I guess nobody expects you to be all dressed up and formal in your back yard.

The camera was a little point and shoot Olympus FE270, which, when the light is just right, can take quite nice looking photos, though it's hard to get them non-blurry. I did stuff to the photo to make the colours look like that:

Took the original pic:
http://nyarla.gazaxian.com/pegs_orig.jpg

Then used the "false colour" filter (which has no parameters) in Pixelmator to see what it did:
http://nyarla.gazaxian.com/pegs_false_colour.jpg

Then combined the two with multiply blending:
http://nyarla.gazaxian.com/pegs_combined.jpg

Thought that looked cool, like a photo from the 70s or something.. so I cropped the poor cat out of the pic and quite liked it.

[skweek]

I really like bumblebee's and nyarla's pics. Nice one guy and girl!

I've got an idea, but I think I need some glass and prisms to pull it off. I better get tinkering!

[Xstreme]

From yesterdays shoot for a Paris clothing designer. Taken in central Paris but in the courtyard just next door to my place.

[moosedude]

her dress isn't quite as neon green as your bike

a full size version of disciples looks like it would contain even more sharp detail, I wonder if you took that with a tripod with a small aperture?