Photo Challenge 6: Macro

rymus

Lifted from the suggestions thread (simply because I don't have my mammoth list of subjects at hand). Go get me some macro!

heres something to inspire/help you along on your merry way (linkage ).

Submissions being taken from now until.. lets say 5pm on the 20th October. Email entries to the same ol' email address: boardsphotochallenge@gmail.com

Remember:
1. Attach files, do not link.
2. No zip files.
3. Only web viewable formats please
4. include your boards name if you dont want me using your real name.


G'wan away now...

Shrimp

Great, macro is brilliant at times. I think the deadline is a bit long, try make it two weeks maybe?

Lisapeep

So macro basically means big things?!

jlang

No, generally macro means close ups, but I suppose anything that looks larger than life would qualify. There's usually a special macro mode on cameras to focus close to the lens. Expect lots of bugs and flowers, but hope the prize goes to something else.

Eye

damnit i always seem to miss/forget about these
if this was posted about a week ago i got some nice looking shots out in my garden, flowers are all starting to die off now so might be hard to get something like that again....never know though, will try get back out with the ol macro mode going and see what i can catch

rymus

you can post pictures youve taken anytime, not just in the timeframe that the challenge is running.

Lisapeep

I hope you don't mind me asking this, but how do we submit them?

Rhyme

Lisapeep wrote:

I hope you don't mind me asking this, but how do we submit them?

Email them to Rhymus with the pics details and your Boards.ie username. http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=260773

Might enter this one myself...

slumped

Rhymus

Are we sending entries to the usual address?

S

Eye

was kinda wondering that myself as there is no email address mentioned anywhere i could see....or else i'm going blind

rymus

oops, my bad. same address... post updated above.

Eye

ok i've sent ya off an entry, see what ya think of it

can i assume you can enter more than once?

if so, good, coz i'll go on a hunt over the next few days with the camera to try and get some more shots

rymus

I'll stick with one entry per person again.. not sure I want to return to the days of yore where I got about 40 images to work through...

Eye

ok, since it's limited to 1 entry per person, and i've already sent off my entry would it be alright to post up an image or two here to maybe inspire people or give them some ideas?

rymus

fire away

Eye

ok well here are a few sample images to get those creative juices flowing

I was out in my back garden the other day and just started taking a few pot shots with the macro settings on a Minolta Dimage 7i and below you can see just a few of the results. I've had to scale them down quite a bit from their original size firstly to get them on screen without scroll bars and secondly to reduce the file sizes. Just to be on the safe side i also put on a bit of a "Do not copy" logo on it but it should'nt interfere with the images too much as you'll see the subjects just fine.

Personally i think the second one is the best of them, managed to get it focused just right.

For anyone interested all photos were taken on a Minolta Dimage 7i in macro mode, i just set it to auto and shot away.

rymus

not too shabby..

kjt

Very nice pics. I think the 1st is the best. Lovely flower.
I'll get out and start snapping soon.

Nice shots

Eye

cheers

yeah that first one is a lovely flower alright, got alot more of those ones, for some reason i just decided to go on a bit of a bug hunt that day getting all sorts of fly's, wasp's, spiders and the crane fly's too.

kjt

Eye wrote:

cheers

yeah that first one is a lovely flower alright, got alot more of those ones,

Ya should post em up
I'd love to see em.

Eye

i'll see what i can do for you tomorrow, if i get a chance i'll resize a few more of them and post em up. it'll probably be after lunch sometime though as i'll be out all morning with my brother hopefully trying to get some snapshots of the partial solar eclipse with his scope and camera

kjt

Sound sweet.
lol no rush at all buddy.

Eye

ok well as the solar eclipse was a waste of time, too cloudy to see a thing, i had a bit of free time and resized a few more of those pics of the flower for ya kjt.

since myself and my brother were a bit bored waiting for clouds to clear we went off on a bit of a hunt for spiders and anything else we thought would look cool, might start a thread in the photography board sometime with some of my pics and see what people think, but for now lets stick to the macro flowers

Eye

here's one last one that would'nt fit into the last post

kjt

Lovely pics. I like the last 1, its a fair bit away. But with a bit of imagination it sort of looks like a little world... :eek:

Or mayb I'm crazy. Either way they look good. Havta give macro's a bash during the week. Not too many flowers alive though.

Thanks

Lisapeep

Shrimp wrote:

I think the deadline is a bit long, try make it two weeks maybe?

I agree! One competition a per month is not enough - there should be at least two competitions a month. One week deadline for entries and then one week of judging - how bout it?

kjt

Lisapeep wrote:

I agree! One competition a per month is not enough - there should be at least two competitions a month. One week deadline for entries and then one week of judging - how bout it?

Sounds good to me. Must start taking part in em.
Probably get slaughtered though.

Shrimp

Yeah thats good 2 comps a month

jlang

Dunno about that - one week isn't really enough time, unless we're just going to submit shots from our archives. I like it the way it is - not too much pressure. If they overlapped or if the next one gets started on the same day as the judging for the last one, maybe. Anyway, rymus puts some time into it, prolly not fair to push more work on him. Maybe have a rymus-run competition and a someone-else-run competition each month?

Or if you're just looking for competitions to enter, there's plenty out there on the interweb. I like looking at the ones from the forums on dpreview.com (latest), and also here but feel the standard gets a bit too excellent for me or my camera.

To get back to the theme of this month's comp, check out these for some macro inspiration.

rymus

yeah woohoo, 2 competitions a month. It's not like I have anything else to do. Maybe I should just give up my full time job and run photo challenges for a living? Sounds lucrative....

Unless I win the lotto this week, it's one challenge per month.

slumped

rymus wrote:

yeah woohoo, 2 competitions a month. It's not like I have anything else to do. Maybe I should just give up my full time job and run photo challenges for a living? Sounds lucrative....

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So you DON'T run the challenge FULL TIME??

Shattered my illusion!

S

rymus

no, sorry about that slumped.. I'm just too busy shooting for national geographic and FHM to even consider taking boards photo challenge on full time

Lisapeep

rymus wrote:

yeah woohoo, 2 competitions a month. It's not like I have anything else to do. Maybe I should just give up my full time job and run photo challenges for a living? Sounds lucrative....

Unless I win the lotto this week, it's one challenge per month.

I don't understand what's so time consuming about the competition. People send you emails, you post them here - how long can it take!

rymus

long enough that I dont want to have to do it more than once a month. case closed.

Lisapeep

rymus wrote:

long enough that I dont want to have to do it more than once a month. case closed.

How evasive!

kjt

Lisapeep wrote:

I don't understand what's so time consuming about the competition. People send you emails, you post them here - how long can it take!

I'd say it takes quite a bit of time. Or at least some time, nice of himself to do it.
Maybe you could do the other one Lisapeep? if its not 'that' time consuming.
Doubt I'd have the time myself anyways.

JackKelly

yeah,i'd imagine it takes a fair while tbh. Linking and posting and sorting all the emails. Everyone is free to start their own one if they want.

Rhyme

I think one fixed competition is best, lets you keep to some kind of schedule rather than split between 2 or 3.

Finally downloaded the manual for my camera and as it turns out i do have a proper macro mode on it :rolleyes: ...Flickr likes 'em.

rymus

here endth the discussion on frequency of challenges. If anyone else feels compelled to comment on it, expect a severe slapping.

Lisapeep

jlang wrote:

Or if you're just looking for competitions to enter, there's plenty out there on the interweb. I like looking at the ones from the forums on dpreview.com (latest), and also here but feel the standard gets a bit too excellent for me or my camera.

The photos in those competitions are indeed of a very high standard - have you entered any yourself?

jlang

Not yet, but would if I thought I had an eligible pic. Some of the other folks' pics that've been entered here would be up to scratch. Anyway, shows us what we can aspire to.

Lisapeep

When does judging begin?

mbf

Lisapeep wrote:

When does judging begin?

I presume it starts on the 20th, when the competition closes. I hope so because I've narrowed down my macro selection to 20 photos - now I just have to choose one of those and enter it.

I hate doing that, though - it's like judging the rest of them and finding them wanting somehow.

rymus

on or around the 20th, I'll be away for a few days but I'll have my laptop with me so while uploading photos I might just have chance to sort out the competition.... if not, juding will more than likely begin err, tomorrow morning.

Lisapeep

Tomorrow morning? Really? I'd actually like that!

rymus

wowzers! I'll do it right now then!

Entries for challenge 6 are no longer being taken; apologies to anyone that thought they had 4 more days.

Rhyme

Damn, im particularly taken by Photo 8... nice work whoever