MAY Photo Challenge - Voting ***Pick up to 4***

[Photo Challenge]

Voting for the MAY Photo Challenge is Open.
View the Entries here: fun (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=156467)

Rules:

1. Don't vote for yourself.
2. Don't reveal which entries you voted for.
3. Pick your favourite entries (up to 4)
4. Winner will be announced at the end and gets to choose the next month's subject.

Good Luck !

[Photo Challenge]

Congratulations Tim (zenith), you are our winner for May.
A deserving winner there, looks like you had lots of "fun" composing it and it captured the theme of the month brilliantly. Well done!

Congratulations also to the runners up, Wayne and David. Great shots also and a pretty close competition for the voting.

A Big thankyou to everyone who submitted an entry.
There were all great.
And a special thankyou and welcome to our New entrants. :thanx:
Keep up the good work.

Tim, your entry now proudly hangs in our Hall of Fame.

What theme would you like to nominate as the challenge topic for this month?

[zenith]

Hi all, thanks to those who voted for my photo, I very much enjoyed this month's competition. For next month I would like to choose a "Pier or Jetty" for the competition.

[jbdave]

Pier or Jetty ?

Damn it - can I re-submit my April challenge shot ;)

[Allan_L]

Congratulations Tim,
a great shot and a well deserved win :thumbsup:

[JA]

I agree ^

Great Shot Tim & well done !!!

Best
JA

[Nebulous]

Well done Tim. :thumbsup:

We're a bit short of jetties up here in the Hills, but I'll have a hunt round and see what I can find. Bound to be one somewhere...

[Suzy]

Congratulations Tim, I loved your shot so much, I want to try that :D.
Me being the squisher of course to the hubby :lol:.
I'd really appreciate some tips to do it if you can spare the time please :).

[zenith]

Thanks again everyone.
Hi Suzy, this was my first attempt at a forced perspective image and was a bit harder than I expected. The idea is to have the camera well back from both people and fully zoomed in (a technique called lens compression) and also use a high f stop to get both people in focus. I used a 70-200mm on a full frame camera, and wanted to use f32, but unfortunately my back yard is not long enough (and we were moving about too much to close the aperture right down), and ended up shooting at 105mm and f20. I couldn't get both of us in perfect focus in the one shot, so I had to "focus-stack" 2 images, since I was a bit out of focus in the single image. My daughter was about 7m from the Camera, on a step ladder, and I was about 20m, holding a wireless shutter release.
I think I could improve it using a plain uniform background, like a large grass field or at the beach, use the full 200mm and close right down to f32, and change our positions to more like 15m and 30m. I think this will get it in one shot.
I had to do it a couple of times to get the positioning right, so it would be much easier not being in the picture, or use another trick instead - with a Canon 6D I can pair it to my phone and see a live view and hit the shutter remotely, but I didn't get that far before my daughter decided I was "taking fooooorrrrrrreverrrrrrrrr" :screwy: and so we just took a few images and lucked out in one of them.
I looked at a couple of youtube videos, and did a google image search of "forced perspective" to get some ideas. :thumbsup:
Cheers.

[Suzy]

Hi Tim, enormous thanks for taking the time out and explaining how you did it. Oh wow, am I going to have some fun trying this out.
I'll have a go at a park perhaps so there's more room.
I like the idea of a wireless remote release (I have one but it's attached), so I'll check out the price as I'll be passing Ted's Cameras on Saturday.
I wish my 1100D would live view on my phone, I don't think it does. Hubby's 70D I know he can get on his ipad but I haven't learned how to operate that camera yet. I'm finding the 1100D so perfect for starting out as its menus are easy to get at and is quite intuitive; I'll stay learning on that for a while.