Stevesc's 52 for 2017 - week 32, 33 & 34 added
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Colour one for me Steve, like the DOF and love how you've processed it.
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Colour one for me too. Wish I could get Ayla to sit still so I could take a shot like this! It's really well done, nice blending of DOF on the eye lashes and where it's sharp, it's really sharp. I also like how everything else is slightly OOF but in a way that works for the image. Good for the theme too 
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Comfort - certainly fits the theme, the dressing gown and slippers do look like they are very comfy.
Hairy - two very good images and good composition, I have to say its the colour version for me. I think you have done well, with capturing the eyelash detail excellent work.
Hairy - two very good images and good composition, I have to say its the colour version for me. I think you have done well, with capturing the eyelash detail excellent work.
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Same here, colour for me ... The eye is striking. Lovely image
slight colour version .... Hey real nice job. Those lashes, or some of them, are pin sharp and - as Carl says - there are bits blending into the BG.
The colour eye for me - so soft and delicate and yet pin sharp where it's needed - very nice indeed
Colour one for me too. Wish I could get Ayla to sit still so I could take a shot like this! It's really well done, nice blending of DOF on the eye lashes and where it's sharp, it's really sharp. I also like how everything else is slightly OOF but in a way that works for the image. Good for the theme too
Thanks everyone, seems the colour version is the overwhelming favourite.
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Week 4 "Smooth"
It's our youngests birthday this weekend so have had lots on planning for a birthday party. So it's another indoor set up shot for this week, wasn't sure what to do but settled on trying to get a smooth curve for the theme. This was several sheets of paper stapled together, I'm not really happy with the piece of paper in the right hand corner but otherwise I was fairly happy with how it came out.
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It's our youngests birthday this weekend so have had lots on planning for a birthday party. So it's another indoor set up shot for this week, wasn't sure what to do but settled on trying to get a smooth curve for the theme. This was several sheets of paper stapled together, I'm not really happy with the piece of paper in the right hand corner but otherwise I was fairly happy with how it came out.
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Delicately Smooth curves and beautiful subtle graduated intensity of the colours too.
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Good idea and very effective. At first I couldn't work out what it was.
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Smooth - a nice abstract image, fits the theme, liking the pastel colours in the image.
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That`s nice. Lovely colours and cool dof
Delicately Smooth curves and beautiful subtle graduated intensity of the colours too.
My fave of the week Steve ...just my sort of shot, great colours ...I love it
Thanks everyone, appreciate all the comments and pleased it's gone down so well.
I like that. The contrasting colours work really well and the shape whilst abstract reminds me a little of the Sydney Opera House.
Thanks Tim, good thought on the Sydney Opera House, can see what you mean.
It was just set up at the kitchen table, had the camera on a tripod with a 50mm and some extension rings (can't remember what length, really should make a note of things like that). The paper was balanced on a cup and it was lit with light from a tablet. The tablet had an image on it with the two colours on (on on each end). I had the kitchen lights off and it was a reasonably long exposure so I could move the tablet to get light on top and underneath the paper.
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The left hand side is nice and smooth but the right side is rather sharp to the edges of the paper. If you took a photo a bit of a distance would the whole picture appeared smooth. Really nice colours though.
Thanks, I did take some with a much shallower DOF but only handheld and most were a bit too blurred, there was this one but I thought it a bit to abstract so didn't do much editing to it. It also didn't have the colours as I was just using the kitchen lights at the time.
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Oh Steve , that smooth image is excellent, such nice pastel tones and soft curves, worth printing and putting on your wall :thumbs
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That is superb Steve - the colours are wonderful and the composition of the lines spot on. Thanks for the background info on the lighting - I was wondering how you'd managed to produce those colours...I need to get more creative with lighting I think!
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Smooth reminds me of a Background/Screen saver type image, very gentle on the eye.
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Great idea for smooth and like the colours too and great compo.
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Very eye-catching, great colour, good work.
Smooth reminds me of a Background/Screen saver type image, very gentle on the eye.
Great idea for smooth and like the colours too and great compo.
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Week 5 "Mineral"
I have gone with salt for my mineral, was initially planning on just a macro of salt crystals but it was a bit boring so I have added some peppercorns (which I know aren't minerals) which also adds some size context to the salt crystals. Taken with a 50mm on a the smallest extension tube, lit with an off camera LED light, looking at it now I should have tried to reflect a little light back as the right hand side is a little dark.
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I have gone with salt for my mineral, was initially planning on just a macro of salt crystals but it was a bit boring so I have added some peppercorns (which I know aren't minerals) which also adds some size context to the salt crystals. Taken with a 50mm on a the smallest extension tube, lit with an off camera LED light, looking at it now I should have tried to reflect a little light back as the right hand side is a little dark.
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I've done salt 'n pepper shots before and always pleased with the result. What you've done here Steve is a mild stroke of genius ... adding those lovely peppercorns to your minerals exactly where they belong. Nice result, I enjoy looking at this. But, I think I'd prefer the 3 OOF FG peppercorns to be placed behind what I see as the focal point.
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Great shot Steve, good lighting and focus on the Mineral with the pepper corns to help
, nice light on the salt which stands out well against the dark background.
Cheers
.Thanks for the feedback on the OOF peppercorns at the front, seems like I'm in the minority but I actually quite liked them. I would maybe move the larger one to the left but I'm happy with the other two. I can see how it would work without them and should have taken a shot to see how it would have turned out.