My current favourite

Hi All

This is my current favourite shot of the month. I took this while in Pongola at the beginning of the month. I'm hoping to potentially enter it into the Fujifilm wildlife awards (SA) and Nature's Best (USA) awards. What do you think? Is there a chance of getting past round 1? This is pretty much as is as well so any ideas as to PS work would be appreciated.

tech: D700 with 400mm f3.5 and 10mm extension tube. 1/1600sec @ f5.6 on ISO400.

Thanks for looking

E

Capillary Action and NEW THEME

Hi all

Something new for me but maybe not everyone here was a 'studio' product shot the other day which i appreciate and crits on. The brief (on spec stock shooting, Neil might also have tried this) was to shoot a clear glass with a straw demonstrating capillary action. Problems that i encountered were first that food coloured water isn't 'thick enough' to have any capillary effect in a straw and also reflections on glass require the use of an expensive light tent. My solutions were to create a gelatin mixture (sure enough the liquid travelled up the straw) and to heath robinson together a lighttent constructed from dashboard shades clothespegged together. Two strobes supplied the lighting.

and for the new theme...While I was shooting this i though let's maybe do some technique themes...first one 'freeze frame'. Stop motion in some way to demonstrate something about an object, or even a person (using high shutter speed or freezing time with a burst of flash...my personal goal is to do the whole drop of water thing). Have fun

Cheers
E

A long awaited entry

Was editing some wedding photo's now (my weakness is not sitting down and doing the post photo work). So I've not waited for the morrow to blog this..

Back to the theme of a book cover... I have this that stirred something. Maybe a title like My Sister's Keeper or something along those lines. I'm the worst at remebering names of titles. But anyway, here it is..

Shrooms

ok so I was just wondering if you guys had any comments on this shot?I like it, but i also know that there is loads more I could of done with it..?any ideas?