OLD AGE
This weeks subject can refer to anything that changes over time.
Pictures to be taken between 00.01am Monday 5th August 2013 to 23:59 Sunday 11th August 2013.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 12th August 2013.
Poll will be up Tuesday 13th August 2013.
Winner to be announced Saturday 17th August 2013.
The Rules for the weekly competition are...
By entering you agree to take responsibility to
Post a topic on the Sunday 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 wins.
Photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie Monday xx to Sunday xx
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59 Monday night.
Great - an Idea Has sprung in my head already. I like it when that happens.......but I bet my final entry is nothing like my initial idea!
Blast, a week too early!
Don't You Believe It!!
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10216/normal_Don_t_you_believe_it21.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14137&fullsize=1)
Aha, I think I have an idea for this one already. I wonder if it'll work out . . . ?
Quote from: Hinfrance on August 13, 2013, 10:06:12 AM
Aha, I think I have an idea for this one already. I wonder if it'll work out . . . ?
You too eh?
It's my age ;)
Aha, I think I have an idea for this one already. I wonder if it'll work out . . . ?
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You too eh?
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And Me :2funny:
Quote from: kerbside on August 13, 2013, 10:44:33 AM
Aha, I think I have an idea for this one already. I wonder if it'll work out . . . ?
You too eh?
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And Me :2funny:
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self image? :D
Oh, one more rule, no self portraits, eh boys? You know who you are.... :legit:
Joking!!
Aha! It's not a selfie!
I need as long as I can for mine...starting tonight and going till Sunday!
that's a damn long shutter speed Chris! :2funny: (far too early in the morning over here!)
Got mine in early this week. This was, until this morning, the first year since we moved here that I hadn't photographed any sunflowers - they bloom and die so quickly and we were on holiday the week that they were all at their peak. So I figured that sunflowers dying of old age would be a suitable subject for the comp.
Helianthus Gerontius:
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10146/normal_Helianthus_Gerontius-57596c_flickr.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14148&fullsize=1)
Old age is not confined to humans!
I took my camera for a walk just now, in the hope to find some 'old age,' whatever, wherever. Not much luck, wrong time of day I suppose. Plenty of student type people, but not one wore or carried anything of great age. No old cars and even the dogs were young-ish. Disappointing; I normally find something on my walks. Will have to go again on Saturday.
Quote from: Reinardina on August 14, 2013, 05:18:28 PM
Old age is not confined to humans!
Indeed, that's why I said "anything" changed over time. ;)
here is my entry for this week.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11372/normal_Old_Hands_28small29.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14158&fullsize=1)
Quote from: spikeyjen on August 15, 2013, 10:44:39 AM
here is my entry for this week.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11372/normal_Old_Hands_28small29.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14158&fullsize=1)
I like the message!
I'm still struggling a bit.
Went out this morning to shoot something/someone old, but the weather wasn't obliging. It was simply too wet. To keep my camera dry, I had to lurk under awnings, but everyone else was lurking there as well. It was quite warm and muggy, so people were congregating there, to catch up on the latest gossip.
People going about their business, were all hidden in umbrellas, and virtually invisible. Got a few 'Bus Pass Pensioners,' but the shots were nothing much.
So, I had to use my studio (bedroom floor in this case), to photograph some old stuff that is lurking (lots of lurking today! You would have felt totally at ease, Mick.) in the cupboard.
To keep in style, I gave the end result a vintage look.
I am in with:
Old Stuff
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11140/normal_Old_Stuff_in_beauty_case_warm_tone_with_border_Toned_coll_vintage_res.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14161&fullsize=1)
Weather! Why couldn't we have had the umbrella competition this week?
(It's been lashing down all day, and a big dog show (for dogs of all sizes) in the park I wanted to photograph today.)
Some old photos and Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates collected over the years when exploring my family tree.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10216/normal_Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are-.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14168&fullsize=1)
Great Aunt Chris (bottom left), my Great Grandad and Grandma (bottom right), the family group includes my Dad aged about 7, third from the left of the sitting children, the one withh the Eton collar, although he left school at 13.
'Hands Of Time'
OK, I had a go with an effect called 'dragan', to create in image in the style of Andrzej Dragan. I took an image, hand held, of my mums hands and applied the technique using inverted layers/masks before making the image B&W and dodging/burning some areas. I think this is a 'marmite' thing, like HDR, you either love it or hate it and can use it subtly or exaggerated.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11291/normal_Hands_Of_Time.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14176&fullsize=1)
My original idea, when I said I needed a week to pull it together was no good. I had planned on a triptych (or however you spell it...) of a flower open, dying them dead but my lilies are all blooming and lasting ages so it didn't work! Hence the replacement image.
In with a very rushed shot as we were heading home for tea. Old and Youthful :D :2funny:
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11049/normal_oldyouthful.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14181&fullsize=1)
My Dad, aged 73.
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11327/normal_Dragan_Dad_b_w_vig_resize.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=14180&fullsize=1)
I'm assuming that Jeff (kerbside) was the winner this week with his amazing pic of the suitcases.
Just wondering if Jeff will share how he did this (ie what post production work he did to get that look).
The voting doesn't actually close until tomorrow morning UK time, but unless there is a sudden rush of voting it looks like Jeff has nailed it.
It would be interesting to know how he got that look.
I'd like to know too!
Would like to thank all the persons that voted for my Suitecases, I will think of a suitable topic and post later this evening.
As for the PP it is about 4 layres stacked on top of each other to create the crazed look of the glossy picture, tinted with a light cream colour to give the old yellow look to the borderland then added a vignette to give it the old camera look, it's a combination of Photoshop and Snapseed.
Hope this answers some questions.