July Photo Challenge - Comments & "John West" Rejects

[Photo Challenge]

Post your comments on the July Photo Challenge Entries (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?p=1187486#post118748 6)here.
Do you have any "rejects", post them here too.

Have Fun!

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[leon]

Wow Jonathan that is impressive indeed, never seen anything like it.

Leon

[AstroJunk]

Thanks Leon, here's another I've done today - I'm gathering quite a collection of them. Great fun to do and a completely different outlook on things :)

[BilliGoatsGruff]

I've had a lot of fun with this month's challenge :D

[astronobob]

Thats an amazing view Jonathan - how does that happen, does one need a special prog to put it together ? I love this stuff, any tutes about how to etc ?
Thanx

[AstroJunk]

Cheers Bob,

Its a 360 degree panorama stitched together using a brilliant piece of software called PTGui. You can do some very creative things with panoramas - I've attached my favourite night time one that I took at home.

So normally, they are taken from earth looking up, but now I'm using my drone to take somewhere between 20-40 16mp still images to create an incredibly large panorama that can then be manipulated to get the desired effect - that projection is called Little Planet and is effectively the same as taking a fish-eye shot.

Get clicking :)

[Regulus]

Scouring my photo collection for an entry and found these nasty 'circles with teeth'.

Trev

[OzStarGazer]

Not for the contest, but I was looking at the thumbnails of my images today when I noticed the first photo and I had to open it to see what it was. A sleeping duck! I thought it was fun as it's almost a circular shape (not quite though).
The second one is for fun too (circle within circle?)...

[OzStarGazer]

Cute image!

[OzStarGazer]

I have found another one for fun...

[AstroJunk]

How about me pondering modern art!

I think the caption would read "WTF"

[OzStarGazer]

I think it is this:
http://www.countrystyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/raised_chocolate.png

[AstroJunk]

I could actually appreciate that artwork :rofl:

[BilliGoatsGruff]

Gotta love our native flora! :D

[BilliGoatsGruff]

Do you know what the flowers are? They're very pretty :)

P.S I thought it was an allium but the leaves don't look right? :shrug:

[OzStarGazer]

I think they are just dandelions. A bit sharp, and I don't even remember sharpening that photo. Maybe I had chosen a wide aperture (the background is indeed a bit blurred as contrasted to the sharp dandelions).

[BilliGoatsGruff]

Haha the leaves look like they belong to a dandelion. I though it was some exotic flower :lol:

[OzStarGazer]

They look like you can grab them! Oh, I meant the background is a bit blurred, not sharp (when the background is blurred and the central subject sharp it means the aperture is wide). Where is my coffee? :rofl::P

[OzStarGazer]

This was my 1000th post! Time is crazy!

[BilliGoatsGruff]

Congratulations! Are you gonna throw an anniversary dinner? :lol:

[OzStarGazer]

I wish!
I think I should have spoiled myself with some astro stuff today... And somehow I did... I bought a container (a storage organizer box) which should be very useful for filters!

[BilliGoatsGruff]

Haha you must have subconciously known that you would reach 1000 posts today :)

[OzStarGazer]

Maybe...
It looks like this:
http://image.dhgate.com/albu_305533524_00-1.0x0/15-slots-clear-storage-box-bead-organizer.jpg

:) I paid less than $2 for it! Well, I cannot really say that I "spoiled" myself, but it's nice anyway. :)

I must go back to starwatching soon. It has been so cold here at night that I succumbed to some sort of survival instinct in the last few weeks. :lol:

[Regulus]

That's a creative use of a pretty sad time Bob. I hope things have improved for your lady wife and self.
Best Wishes to you both.
Trev