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Title: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on July 31, 2016, 07:32:25 AM
This is the CHAT thread

The ENTRY thread is here: http://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?topic=4663.0
This week's theme is 'Still Life - Something To Eat'  - the still life can be of anything as long as it includes at least one thing you can eat.

Pictures to be taken preferably between now and Sunday 7 August 2016, 23:59, or enter one from your Personal / Camera Cranium Archives if you prefer.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23:59pm Monday 8 August 2016.
Poll will be up Tuesday 9 August 2016.
Winner to be announced Saturday 13 August 2016.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to

Post a topic on the Sunday (or sooner) following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted (or earliest archive shot if applicable) wins.
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: ABERS on July 31, 2016, 08:54:30 AM
Ah the old bowl of fruit and grapes again. ;)
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: Reinardina on July 31, 2016, 11:15:59 AM
I am no fan of still life, but as there is no restriction on dead animals this time, I may throw something together. Without grapes!
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: Hinfrance on July 31, 2016, 03:03:45 PM
Still life in French is 'Nature Morte' - dead nature, so you can bring on the corpses and no-one will mind!
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on July 31, 2016, 04:47:00 PM
Hope for more adventurous than the normal bowl of fruit and grapes!
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: Reinardina on July 31, 2016, 05:20:09 PM
If I enter, the picture will show plenty of juicy fruit.
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on July 31, 2016, 06:02:00 PM
It's appealing more and more lol....dead animals and juicy fruit....can't wait to see the composition Reinardina. Go girl
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: Reinardina on July 31, 2016, 08:52:54 PM
Only one, very dead, animal, and I'm sure you'll be disgusted.
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on August 01, 2016, 07:55:11 AM
Remember the entry I did years ago of my hubby on his cycle trainer. There was a drop of sweat hanging off the end of his nose. People were disgusted by that.  Is rotten dead corpses not worse than that? Remember it needs to contain something you can eat.
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: jinky on August 06, 2016, 12:36:57 PM
Wasn`t going to bother again this week as I`m just not doing much photography just now then noticed my wife had laid out last night`s left over fruit in exactly this order on some kitchen roll and thought "There`s an idea". Been done I know but why not... Moved it onto black background and constructed a crap frame  :)
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10154/normal_CC.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=19432&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on August 06, 2016, 12:48:45 PM
A fun entry Jinky. Great stuff. I managed to avoid fruit, though I have a lovely Pear (oooerr missus) photo which I was tempted to enter.
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: Hinfrance on August 08, 2016, 10:54:36 AM
I didn't want to do a (terribly) clichéd shot, and had a couple of bits of fruit left in the bowl. I also wanted to try out the automatic focus stacking on the TG-4, and to much delight it works really well.

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10146/normal_Pomapple-P8060033.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=19439&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: ABERS on August 08, 2016, 03:41:22 PM
Can't get much stiller or devoid of life than this.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10216/normal_Piscatorial_Portrait.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=19440&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: CHAT - 'STILL LIFE - SOMETHING TO EAT' - Competition 31 July - 7 August 2016
Post by: DigiDiva on August 08, 2016, 04:36:59 PM
Nice varied array of shots this week