DSS #23 Unofficial Feedback Thread

hawkeye978

Here is the official gallery to give your C&C for DSS#23

Gallery Found Here


This unofficial feedback thread is a catch-all of sorts, lets make it happen:thumb

Anyway, Lets get #23 Feedback started!!

This thread is:

• a place to post a list of your top ten favorites. (be heard, and let everyone know what images moved you.)
• a place to post your "the making of my image"
• a place to ask someone "how did they do that?"(for us all to see:D )

Feedback is an important part of the photographic process. While those selected as finalists get feedback from the judges and those who vote, others are never quite sure where they stand. So share your thoughts both in this thread and with comments in the actual gallery. Constructive criticism should always be welcome.

dnie

hawkeye978 wrote:

If you want to make a top ten post in this thread using thumbnails of the pictures, these can be obtained at the DSS#23 Gallery by selecting the picture you want then clicking the 'Share' tab in the upper right and selecting 'Get a Link'. Get a copy of the thumbnail and then use the 'Insert Image' button above. Paste the link into the pop up box and hit OK. That will insert the thumbnail into your post.

Except that 'Share' isn't there in the gallery (at least at this time...)

hawkeye978

Yup, that does appear to be the case. The gallery rights have been changed on every Challenges gallery, past and present, to prevent any copying at all. I will edit the original post.

Llywellyn

Yes, the easy "share" button has been removed, but it's still easy to post thumbnails: with the image selected in the gallery, copy its URL from your browser, add "-Th.jpg" to the end, delete the jumble of numbers and letters preceding the hashtag (#), change "gallery" to "photos" and that's it. (I've honestly never used a share button to link here.)

Example

Change this url

[U]http://challenges.smugmug.com/gallery/7821877_VUfQz#508585564_r5YQB[/U]

To this

http://challenges.smugmug.com/photos/508585564_r5YQB-Th.jpg

To get this:

hawkeye978

Llywellyn wrote:

Yes, the easy "share" button has been removed, but it's still easy to post thumbnails: with the image selected in the gallery, copy its URL from your browser, add "-Th.jpg" to the end, delete the jumble of numbers and letters preceding the hashtag (#), change "gallery" to "photos" and that's it. (I've honestly never used a share button to link here.)

Example

Change this url

[U]http://challenges.smugmug.com/gallery/7821877_VUfQz#508585564_r5YQB[/U]

To this

http://challenges.smugmug.com/photos/508585564_r5YQB-Th.jpg

To get this:

What she said

Greensquared

My Favorites for this Round










Yeah, I know there's more than 10, but I just couldn't whittle it down any further!

DRabbit

My favorite ten...





Obvious, in general, I was more drawn to the idea of "parched or saturated" as it related to "dry or wet" rather than the color interpretation. It seemed a little odd to me for the challenge to include both, as the entry topics end up very different and hard to judge against one another (in my opinion only of course). That's not a complaint, just an explanation as to my own thinking. Even when you see my top ten, obviously I judged from the "dry or wet" perspective.

And yeah, it's a little big-headed of me to pick my own image as part of my top ten :patch
Though it wasn't an image I planned out ahead of time, when I came across that little water spigot it just reminded me of a cute little animal reaching out desperately for a sip of water. I struggled a lot with this challenge, so I just had to give a vote to myself

mpflies2

contest
I'm about to head to Savannah, GA so I don't have time to post my 10 favorites at the moment. I'll have to post again later this evening or the next couple of days.

I did however want to comment on how my image was made.

Many of you have probably seen the fruit in water images before, but as I watched the Masters on Easter weekend, I thought I'd modify the fruit idea and use a golf ball.



To get the full breakdown and setup, I've created a blog entry on the process. I hope you take a few minutes and check it out. Always appreciate new followers and anyone willing to link to my site. I'm trying to help people learn the art of photography "From the Ground Up!" With that said, here's the link! Enjoy: http://www.marcpaynephotoblog.com/

Marc Payne

Velvet-Art

Wow!! Thanks for picking my image in your top ten DRabbit & Greensquared. bow

My top 10 in no particular order.



Tim

hawkeye978

My top 10. Standard disclaimers apply.

Eia

For some reason I can't seem to get the thumbnails going... so here are names/titles in no particular order. Gee, this is harder than I thought.

-photo-bug: "Urban Art"
-Greensquared - My Cup Runneth Over
-mpflies2 - "In The Drink"
-dlplumer - "After The Rains"
-dnie – Obscured
-DsrtVW >>> Displacement
-pyroPrints.com - spheres in the morning
-the supervillain - 'virus'
-nxthree – forgotten
-Cmorganphotography ~ "Water SOS"

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dnie

There are so many good ones, it was hard to pick a top 10. I tried to choose by what really came across to me as the theme, but I may very well have just been going by my favorites.
Too much thinking for a Monday and my son wants the computer so....
Top 10 in order entered:

photo-bug: "Urban Art"
Halite - Soaked City
JAG~ Dripping colors
KatMitchell - Humanity VS Global Warming
gnooj - Saturated Steps
pyroPrints.com - spheres in the morning
karlabbott - In Search of Water
quark - dry peppers
DRabbit - Waiting for a Sip
CWSkopec - About to be...

Good luck to everyone!! It was a well thought out concept for everyone I think.

DsrtVW

I will list mine less thumbnails. I also thank all for the support of my image so far.

photo-bug: "Urban Art"
Halite - Soaked City
jeepzj94 - Feeding Frenzy
KatMitchell - Humanity VS Global Warming
BeachBill - Hey Buddy, Can you spare a drink?
ic4u - Dying to be Green Again
CWSkopec - About to be...
Deucefour - Eternal Landing
mpflies2 - "In The Drink"
Unkl Stuart - A Drop in the Ocean

KevXman

Amazing set of photos again, as usual. Here are a few of my favs.



Good luck to all of the finalists!

— Kevin

MarkR

Greensquared wrote:

Yeah, I know there's more than 10, but I just couldn't whittle it down any further!

Thanks for the kudos ... just wish you were still judging!

ic4u

Great entries from everyone! Here are my top ten in order of entry

photo-bug - Urban Art
Halite - Soaked City
Velvet-Art - Parched Water
dlplumer - After The Rains
Eia - Times of Refreshing
KatMitchell - Humanity VS Global Warming
Mike J - Double Double
photobrando - Full On Neon
Porter - Saturated in Clearance Rack Fabric
DRabbit - Waiting for a Sip

There were so many other really good images, it was hard to cut it down to ten, best of luck to all the finalists!

sapphire73

I liked the flexibility of being able to interpret "saturated" and "parched" as amount of water and/or intensity of color for this challenge, and it was interesting to see where people went with this. My left brain has a little trouble seeing saturation illustrated with objects that are not especially porous, but my favorites include a range of interpretations.

This is my first posting on Dgrin - aside from my entry - as I am new to SmugMug. I appreciate the wide variety of entries and the helpful feedback people are providing. It was hard to select just 10 from the array of photos here, but here goes - in no particular order.





















(Thank you for your help, Drin! Nice to see the images finally show up. How do I tweak this to avoid taking up so much room?)

Drin

My favorites, no order.

EDIT: sapphire73, you got it, just add the [img][/img] tags around each one. Welcome to DGrin!

nxthree

Thanks to those that included me in their picks! This was a fun round with lots of great entries. Good luck everyone!

mpflies2

amazed
I'm amazed at how many of the images I thought would make the finalists didn't make it. I suppose that's where different tastes come into play lol. Congrats to all the actual finalists and good work everybody on a fun round. I think 90% of the entries were very good and on theme. Looking forward to the next round.

Thanks to everyone who listed my image in there top 10 as well. As promised earlier, here is my 10 faves:

No particular order











Marc Payne
From the Ground Up!

Tango

linking must be easier or i aint doing it....:D

good job everyone, but my favs are just that...favs

jeffmeyers - Red Rush (Bush Stadium, St. Louis)

Greensquared - My Cup Runneth Over

Halite - Soaked City

vandana - Run into the light

quark - dry peppers

coscorrosa - Spring Glow

dlplumer - "After The Rains"

ilbcnu

My favs in no particular order~

photo-bug: "Urban Art"
Greensquared - My Cup Runneth Over
Halite - Soaked City
Velvet-Art - Parched Water
jeepzj94 - Feeding Frenzy
BeachBill - Hey Buddy, Can you spare a drink?
pyroPrints.com - spheres in the morning
photobrando - Full On Neon
annnna8888 - Flooded

Thank you Hawkeye978 & sapphire73 for including me in favs!!!

Greensquared

Thanks to all who listed my humble shot in their favorites. It has totally lifted my spirits.

dlplumer

Thanks to all who included me in their top ten. I am constantly reminded of how subjective and varied our views are when it comes to artistic expression of any kind.

My favs:

Red Rush
Urban Art
Soaked City
Feeding Frenzy
Double Double
Spheres In The Morning
Pipilio Floating

Congratulations to all the finalists.

Drin

Thanks to those who liked mine, I'm honored. Also appreciate the how-to, mpflies2!

Velvet-Art

Thankyou to everyone that has put my pic into their fav's, it has given me a real boost on a dreary tuesday morning.

And Congrats to all who made it through to the final, there are some stunning images to choose from.thumbthumb

Tim

Velvet-Art

Some folks had asked for setup info on my image, here's a wider shot of the setup used.

The idea came to me in a flash, or at least a dim "Blip", of a shot of a tap with dust instead of water coming out.

Having done a little bit of diy plumbing I had an old outside tap that had a weathered piece of pipe attached that I figured would do and mounted it as you see above. My 1st thought was just to pour in the dried sand via a funnel and it would just come out of the tap under the power of gravity but that didnt work, so I had to fill the 1st section of pipe connected to the tap with sand, then attach the "L" shaped piece and then blow into the free end pictured above to get the sand to come out while holding my camera remote (shown draped on my tripod) and snapping at the right time. It took about 60 frames to get about 6 usable images to choose from.

The bucket would then catch the sand to be re-used as I only had about a cupful of dried sand, and the whole lot was positioned against an old wall in my backyard that is in desperate need of a coat of paint.

Both camera position/angle and light position changed a few times to get the shadows right, I think the flash was set at 1/16th to 1/32 power. The observant among you will have noticed the strange setup of my tripod, the fact is that it is a video head on it and so I have to arrange it like that to take portrait shots. I really must get a decent Ball-head.

Anyway, I hope that answers how I did it, thanks for the interest shown.


Tim

travelways

Thank you so, so much to those who included my entry on their selection.

I cannot tell how happy I am for this - wow! :ivar

Sorry for my delay in answering. We've been traveling from Germany,
(where I took the water fountain shot) to Portugal...
- well, we like traveling and because we have an opportunity now, we don't want to waste it...

However, the inconvenience of traveling is sometimes the lack of connectivity.
For the past few days I couldn't access the Internet, so I haven't even seen the last entries to the contest.

I'll insert my comments as soon as I will be able to do it.

PS:

When I have the chance I take a lot of photos for the current contest theme,
and this was also the case this time.

I just thought to share with you some of the shots I took for this one, if you don't mind...

Here they are, by date taken in descending order:

http://allbiz.smugmug.com/gallery/7968130_wXDcq#517644621_sydvo

Thank you again so much

Here are some of my favorites (no order):

dnie

Velvet-Art wrote:

Some folks had asked for setup info on my image, here's a wider shot of the setup used.
Tim

Wow, now I am even more impressed with the whole thing! That seems like a lot to go through, but the shot was worth it. I never would have been able to think up anything like that!

Velvet-Art

dnie wrote:

Wow, now I am even more impressed with the whole thing! That seems like a lot to go through, but the shot was worth it. I never would have been able to think up anything like that!

You are too kind. I really enjoyed executing this challenge and was quite pleased with the shot.

I'm sure you can come up with similar and better, sometimes an image just appears in your mind that fits the purpose needed. The trouble can be getting the image out of your mind and into your camera.

Thank you for your very kind comments

Tim

dlplumer

Velvet-Art wrote:

Some folks had asked for setup info on my image, here's a wider shot of the setup used.

The idea came to me in a flash, or at least a dim "Blip", of a shot of a tap with dust instead of water coming out.

Having done a little bit of diy plumbing I had an old outside tap that had a weathered piece of pipe attached that I figured would do and mounted it as you see above. My 1st thought was just to pour in the dried sand via a funnel and it would just come out of the tap under the power of gravity but that didnt work, so I had to fill the 1st section of pipe connected to the tap with sand, then attach the "L" shaped piece and then blow into the free end pictured above to get the sand to come out while holding my camera remote (shown draped on my tripod) and snapping at the right time. It took about 60 frames to get about 6 usable images to choose from.

The bucket would then catch the sand to be re-used as I only had about a cupful of dried sand, and the whole lot was positioned against an old wall in my backyard that is in desperate need of a coat of paint.

Both camera position/angle and light position changed a few times to get the shadows right, I think the flash was set at 1/16th to 1/32 power. The observant among you will have noticed the strange setup of my tripod, the fact is that it is a video head on it and so I have to arrange it like that to take portrait shots. I really must get a decent Ball-head.

Anyway, I hope that answers how I did it, thanks for the interest shown.


Tim

Very impressive. Thanks for sharing.