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ES October - Broken

Postby leek on Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:29 am

Exercise in Style - October 2005:
Broken


Submissions between 1-31 October 2005

THE RULES:

IMPORTANT: There are no prizes. This is not a challenge. It is an exercise...
1. All members are urged to participate with photos taken in the current month
2. All makes and models of camera accepted, FSLR, DSLR, P&S, pin hole, MF, LF
3. All method of Post Processing (PP) allowed- unless 'theme' states otherwise
4. Only one (1) image per member
5. Submissions valid between the 1st and last day of the month.
6. You may do more PP after posting your image
7. First person who posts an appropriate image gets to choose theme for next month
8. Thats about it!
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Postby leek on Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:39 am

Broken...
What could that possibly mean???

A broken toy... A broken promise... Broken light... Broken Spirit... or something else...

Your choice...
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Postby krpolak on Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:38 pm

BROKEN - interpretation as simple as posible.

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Postby leek on Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:12 pm

Very nice Krystian...

I'm glad to see that someone has set this new theme off to a good start...
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Postby Sheetshooter on Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:48 pm

Tantalisingly Freudian Kristian,

You never fail to amaze and reward - thank you.

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Postby krpolak on Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:00 am

Thanks guys. Actually this exercise brought to me thought about an interesting series :)

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Postby sheepie on Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:54 am

did anyone think to take a picture of the screen while the site was down last weekend? ;)
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Postby genji on Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:55 pm

..into a million pieces

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Postby krpolak on Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:01 pm

I dont know how youe have doen it, but looks interesting. I would lift up a bit levels for cyans so texture would be more visible. Now effect is too subtle to hit at first sight.

It looks that is really brokes, isnt it? :)

Just a thought what if there would be posibility to put a guy behind and make his portrait? :)

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Postby genji on Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:40 pm

krpolak wrote:I dont know how youe have doen it, but looks interesting. I would lift up a bit levels for cyans so texture would be more visible. Now effect is too subtle to hit at first sight.

It looks that is really brokes, isnt it? :)

Just a thought what if there would be posibility to put a guy behind and make his portrait? :)

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what you see is the tempered glass from advertising billboard of bus shelter. when i walked pass the broken glass i thought is was the effect of the advertisment. but vandals has smashed the glasss.

second question, what is it advertising?? :wink:
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Postby JED on Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:48 pm

Had been thinking about how to interpret this theme and there it was staring me in the face.

18-55 kit lens, 55mm, 1/250 sec, f22, iso 800
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:14 pm

Yet again I am amazed by the colour quality from the D50 John. The lens looks to be a very capable unit as well :D
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Postby JED on Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:09 am

Thanks, Chris.

I couldn't be happier with how it performs, especially for the $$$$. Decent kit and the magnificent images posted on the forum has inspired me to lift my game so its all good.

Just won a 50mm f1.8 on ebay, looking forward to playing with that. :D

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Broken Entry

Postby calford on Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:14 pm

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My first post.

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Postby Willy wombat on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:49 am

Hope that more people get out there and get a "broken" image together for this theme.

[img]http://www.fototime.com/{AF113A2B-B011-4F04-9860-0BECDA0196EF}/picture.JPG[/img]

Here is my effort. Hopefully the snail did not die invain.
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Postby Willy wombat on Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:52 am

Now - if i can just come up with something special for "movement" i will be happy man.
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Postby leek on Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:52 pm

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Broken Through...

Over the last few months, we've been renovating our house, adding another floor on top... We've finally reached the stage where they break through the walls and ceilings to put the staircase in...

You wouldn't believe the amount of dust in the house... :shock:
I'm keeping my camera and kit in the car until they've finished... :lol:
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Postby PiroStitch on Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:16 pm

Leek, you should offer to help them out with a blow job from the rocket ;)
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Postby radar on Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:46 am

Hi,

This thread hasn't been too busy this month, everybody too busy with Challenge 7. Finally found something, I broke this glass while taking it out of the dishwasher :oops:

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Taken with D70s, 50/1.4, 4.5A, 1/1000S.

Not much PP, just cropped the base of the glass out, was just sitting on a retaining wall.

Ah well, some good things come out of mishaps :wink: , got a photo for this thread.

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Postby birddog114 on Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:52 am

Radar,
Find something to throw into the air and capture it for the challenge 7: "Movement" :lol: :lol:
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:20 pm

John - where do you park the car :wink:
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:28 pm

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Postby JordanP on Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:32 pm

excellent lighting on this one Chris. An interesting take on a broken cracker (pun intended) :)
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:06 pm

Thanks Craig - I was aiming for a low keylight to give a bas relief effect - in other words an accident :wink:
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Postby mdboo on Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:47 pm

Broken....no idea but i gave it my best shot :P
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Postby leek on Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:54 pm

Very nice Blackwater... Great concept

There seems to be a halo around the pencil though and almost some ghosting that looks like the lines on the paper have been erased??? How did you do that?
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Postby mdboo on Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:58 pm

haha phew i thought i screwed up or something ^^

Umm the halo...i just used the blur tool...before adding filter i randomly ran the blur tool around.

ps thanks for the comment leek :D

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Postby Jonesy on Thu Oct 27, 2005 8:05 pm

Blackwater...

I really like this... well done

and its nearly as good as your avatar and signature :D
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Postby leek on Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:48 pm

OK, a disappointing number for the October challenge... Time for Krystian Polak to cut & paste the rules into a new thread and set us another challenge for November...
I'll put together a gallery of the October entries soon...
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Postby krpolak on Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:02 pm

Maybe lets other user indicate the subject. I already have done it.

What about you Radar? :)

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Postby radar on Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:58 am

krpolak wrote:What about you Radar? :)


I did have a few other choices that I had come up with for Challenge 7.

How about "noitcelfeR|Reflection" :wink: ?

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Postby krpolak on Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:04 am

Sound perfect for me :) Would you like to set up new thread?

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Postby radar on Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:15 am

Done,

If one of the admin/mods can sticky the November ES, that would be great, thanks,

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