The Photo Challenge - Animals

[Barret_wallace]

1. one picture pr person
2. no previously used material
3. the motive must have something to do with the Topic
4. Starting Monday, closing Sunday.
5. the winner of the last pol will sett the next topic, if the same person stands as the winner two times in a row, he or she must chose an other user to present the next topic
6. new challenges will be presented as a new thread
7. enhancements of the picture (hue/saturation and levels) is allowed but a minimum of Brushing EC.
8. simple frame, no fancy shit
9. no voting for your own picture
10. the challenge starts Monday, pol opens Friday and closes Sunday
the winner starts a new post on the photo forum that is named
"The Photo challenge - the chosen topic"
11. the pol shall not be opened before Friday board time

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The challenge this time will be animals

i tried taking some animal pictures yesterday, and i found it hard
since i can't explain to the dog how to sit :)
(do not count insects as animals)

:yayca:

[mdwsr]

Here be mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/mdwsr/birds/post_redb_raptor/1.jpg

[ShadeOfDawn]

Heres mine:


http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/Shade17/TiggerEye3.jpg


it was trouble getting my cat to pose


Edit:

hah my cat wants to eat your bird

[stine]

wow. phantastic photos, guys! damn, i better get up tomorrow and sit in the garden with some bird-food around me and hope that i at least get a picture of a dove or a squirrel. insects really don't count? cause we have nice spiders in the basement...:)

[mollyduker]

Awesome topic! Domesticated animals are ok, right? O, wait, yea I hope your cat is domesticated ShadeofDawn. Scratch my question. Awesome pictures so far! WEEEE!

[stine]

dunno. that cat has some sort of a wild look... :) yeah, with first posted pics like that, it IS a challenge!

[ShadeOfDawn]

my cat is a Bengal Toy Leopard - it is a breed of domestic cat though - just a wilder one. She's the size of a normal house cat, or well maybe even on the small side because she's so skinny.

oh and stine just a manner of spelling - in English it is Fantastic, not Phantastic - heh just thought i'd point that out as you seem to like the word :p

i look forward to seeing your guys stuff!

[Barret_wallace]

mdwsr, did you use a tele lens for that picture?
i found it damn hard taking picture of birds even when using a tele lens :)

[stine]

forgot, i had a "pet", too. :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/mouse.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/stine17/dictionary02.jpg


to my defense: it has SOMETHING to do with the topic...:)
oh, and sorry for all the spelling mistakes. SPEAKING a foreign language is one thing, WRITING is another...

[Barret_wallace]

Stine it doesn't need to be a pet,
it can be a wild animal as well

[mollyduker]

I think Stine's picture counts! And i think it is a most creative interpretation!
-Mollyduker

[ShadeOfDawn]

i second what Molly says!

[bobbinika]

heres my cat
http://www.superhonda.com/photopost/data/515/cat.jpg

[Barret_wallace]

I'm not saying that Stine's picture doesn't count but i would prefer that she took a picture of a living being

[igorstshirts]

Sort of an animal abstract...
http://www.igorstshirts.com/temp/gator.jpg

[claudeEGYPT]

Okay, I just took this today. Tell me if this works under the "Animal" section. Here's MY CAT:



http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/2585/lion19dd.jpg

Merry Christmas

Claude

[claudeEGYPT]

Cool Igor!

Claude

[guggemmaneuver]

i'm a photo-packin-papa

+++ROSCO+++
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/guggenmaneuver/rosco.jpg
Here's a shot of my dog bringing back a toy to me:)!
It took me a long time to get the frame and shot exactly the way i wanted it to be with this shot. I wanted to fill the composition as much as possible with his running towards me, minimize the grass, and have him look larger than life. in order to get this particular view, i threw his toy a long ways, then promptly laid down in the grass in a way that would have him run back towards me in good light.

IGOR: i love this shot! very very nice!

-joel
EDIT (27 december): resized the image as requested thanks guys! :)

[claudeEGYPT]

Hey Joel, couldnt we get a bigger shot of that? It looks good.. just too small!
Igor: I checked out your site, IT's fun! Particularly that computer graphics shot.

Claude

[stine]

joel - i agree! bigger shot would be great! sweet dog and good pic so far.

barret - sorry i didn't reply earlier - looooooots of relatives to visit...:)
i try and get a pic of a living creature, i'll spend new year's eve at my sister's, so i hope to get a nice picture of elwood (friend's dog)... sorry for being more abstract, but all spiders were gone...:)

great photo, igor! nice to see some more people at this challenge...

claude - being in cairo must be cool. nice pic, great light. like it a lot!

okay, have to sleep now *yawn* see ya!

[Barret_wallace]

stine, your picture is nice, i just thought that i living creature would be better :)

[mollyduker]

I dropped film off at the store today with TONS of doggy pictures, but they wont' be back until Friday afternoon :( I'm so sad. Maybe I will try and borrow my dad's digital camera.
Its great that so many pictres are posteD!
YAY
-Mollyduker

[Barret_wallace]

it's one week is short time for i film photographer :(
but a little long for a digital artist
i haven't found a motive myself. :(

it seems like the photo challenge was a good idea :)

[ShadeOfDawn]

Here in Canada it takes only a day, sometimes only an hour to develop a roll of film from any film camera i've ever used. Maybe the film used in SLR cameras takes longer? i've never used a non digital SLR before.


and i believe that interpretation is a MUST for this contest - i look forward to pushing the suggested topic and seeing others do it as well, i think its more interesting that way.

[Piotrpociecha2006]

Sorry Guys it does say only one entry, I just removed buster.

[ShadeOfDawn]

thats a nice picture but part ofthe rules to keep it more of an interactive thing is that you need to take the picture for the challenge, so you cant use a back catalogue of photos

see if you can get another shot of Buster

[Piotrpociecha2006]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/Piotrpociecha2006/DSCF1945.jpg

[ShadeOfDawn]

nice pictures, but also only one entry per person heh so choose which

[stine]

wow, you're motivated!:)
but like shade said, you have to taka a new picture and you are only allowed to post ONE photo for the challenge. barret posted the rules as this thread's first post...
but it's really cool you could join us!

[stine]

cool! posting simultaneously! btw- why can't i write "fantastic", but THIS word?

[ShadeOfDawn]

hah hah hah! well clearly fantastic is harder to spell than simultaneously.

P.S. you have very good english! so do Barret, and Slash

[Brand_X]

Hey all,I dont normaly take anything but reference photos but this one was to good to pass up.:P


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/gulogulo/wet_dog3.jpg

[Barret_wallace]

we got 9 contributions to the challenge this far :)
we really raised the activity level here

[mollyduker]

All you digital camera ppl!!! Curses! I will sit here and wait patiently even tho my film won't come back until Friday night. These are awesome pictures! Its so exciting! So much busier! I'm so happy!!!! YAY
-Mollyduker

[Barret_wallace]

haha =) didn't you say something about you fathers digital cam?

[claudeEGYPT]

Shade o' dawn, ur pick ROCKS! Those eyes, are u sure no photoshop was induced? I wish i had eyes like those .. hehe..

Claude

[mollyduker]

Hmmm.... the only problem with the digital camera is its a point and shoot pretty much. Well here is my picture
My two doggies!
These are two of my three doggies playing tug of war together!
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/mollyduker/livizoebone.jpg
Hmmm... I need a good digital camera of my own!!! bah
-Mollyduker

[Norwin]

http://www.insanex.de/schaf.jpg


What about an Award (a picture) for the Photo Challenge?
That could be a simple "*" (star) or some other symbol... Just something the winner can show in his signature.
The picture shouldn't be bigger than 50x50 px..

[ShadeOfDawn]

Thanks Claude! and yeah im sure i didnt photoshop heh.

my cat just has amazing eyes and i wish i had her eyes too!

[Barret_wallace]

i was not able to get the picture i wanted,
so i just had to take a picture of my cat :)
I'll open the pol to morrow morning GMT +1

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a326/barret_wallace/challenge/cesar.jpg

[andres_pad]

man, i havent posted for AGES. oh well, here's mine

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/andres_pad/borderbee.jpg

[ShadeOfDawn]

Sorry Andres but in the rules he said dont count insects, and coincidentally that bee (or wasp?) is an insect


but what camera do you use? if D SLR what lens? and did you have to zoom in at all after taking?

[andres_pad]

oh crap, sorry, i didnt see that. i skimmed over them and missed it.
nah my camera is just a konica minolta - Dimage X50 and a lucky find of a bee.

sorry guys *blushes*

hows this one then?
(i dont really like it)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/andres_pad/horses.jpg

[ShadeOfDawn]

I think if you cropped it around just the sun and horse it would be really nie and far more powerful

also, theres another rule you may have skimmed over. To keep this contest more interesting the picture you enter in it should be a new picture taken for the contest, not one of your older pictures.

but try cropping it and thne bring it back

also if you have a dark pic with a black border you should put a white line around the pic before the border. IMO anyway

[Barret_wallace]

if you crop that picture i think you will lose the best part of the picture
that picture is really nice, but i wouldn't really put that picture under the category animals but something like forest :)
but that picture counts in the pol :) ;)
welcome to the competition
could you remove the picture of the wasp?
just to prevent confusion

[Barret_wallace]

the pol is open!

[alithenake]

Here is mine:

Still dreaming
http://www.agorafoto.com/files/dsc6364-640x450_142.jpg

[Barret_wallace]

to late!

[mollyduker]

ShadeofDawn.... I just saw your post about time it takes to develop film, and it takes about 5 days if you develop black and white, which I was shooting. But you can develop color in an hour (though, the quality is rather iffy)
-Mollyduker

[BrianT]

Hi, I'm new to this forum. I'm an amatuer photographer, but a professional artist. All photos are taken with my Canon Powershot S30, as well as edited in Photoshop. Here are some animal photos (both dog photos are my dogs):
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/BrianT51/Dog_Run_small.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/BrianT51/Elk_B_small.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/BrianT51/Horses_small.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/BrianT51/Lizards_small.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/BrianT51/Morgan_B_small.jpg

[FrontlinePs.10]

I'm a little late in the game, but here goes anyway...

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Ph0t0Bug/kitties-2_bw-web.jpg

[claudeEGYPT]

Frontline, ur too late.. but i must say, i like your pic a lot.

Claude

[Barret_wallace]

Hi, I'm new to this forum. I'm an amatuer photographer, but a professional artist. All photos are taken with my Canon Powershot S30, as well as edited in Photoshop. Here are some animal photos (both dog photos are my dogs):



did you read the rules?!
only one pic, before friday, and specialy to the challenge

nice pic's dough :)

[ShadeOfDawn]

Molly - i didnt know B&W took so long!

BrianT - i really like your lizards picture, its by far my favourite of teh bunch

and thats a very nice calendar-like picture Frontline!


Barret may i suggest a new rule? In the event of a tie in the polls, the person who created the challenge casts the tie breaking vote.

[madpencil]

Here's my two cents worth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v29/Madpencil/Biskit_01_mailB.jpg

[Barret_wallace]

!!READ THE RULES!!!
1. one picture pr person
2. no previously used material
3. the motive must have something to do with the Topic
4. Starting Monday, closing Sunday.
5. the winner of the last pol will sett the next topic, if the same person stands as the winner two times in a row, he or she must chose an other user to present the next topic
6. new challenges will be presented as a new thread
7. enhancements of the picture (hue/saturation and levels) is allowed but a minimum of Brushing EC.
8. simple frame, no fancy shit
9. no voting for your own picture
10. the challenge starts Monday, pol opens Friday and closes Sunday
the winner starts a new post on the photo forum that is named
"The Photo challenge - the chosen topic"
11. the pol shall not be opened before Friday board time
12. In the event of a tie in the polls, the person who created the challenge casts the tie breaking vote


Shade Of Dawn you will prensent the next topic.
i give you the vote because you are an active user :)

[Barret_wallace]

Here's my two cents worth.



nice! :) desaturated everything but the details :)
but you are to late to participate in this challenge,
but there is coming a new challenge later on today

:yayca: