>>> LPS#4 Semifinalists List!

Shay Stephens

Congratulations are in order, the 10 dgrinners below are now qualified for the semifinal starting May 14!

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Post 33 - Greensquared - Soil Sample



Post 10 - richtersl - I Just Want to be Human



Post 16 - Dalantech - Frozen in Time



Post 5 - bgaras2001 - new life



Post 18 - kingmamaof2 - I Saw Her Move



Post 32 - osoi - Off With Their Heads!



Post 30 - seastack - Morning Fog



Post 71 - JFreeman - Setting Lights During Tech Rehearsal for Dracula



Post 53 - ultravox - Evolution.



Post 25 - sherstone - "slice of life"




And a first for the Last Photographer Standing contest, A breakdown on the voting!

Position - Points - Photographer
1 - 32 - Greensquared
2 - 23 - richtersi
3 - 22 - Dalantech
4 - 21 - bgaras2001
5 - 16 - kingmamaof2
6 - 16 - osoi
7 - 15 - seastack
8 - 10 - jfreeman
9 - 10 - ultravox
10 - 10 - sherstone
11 - 9 - Povertybarn
12 - 8 - DRabbit
13 - 8 - sser
14 - 7 - JimW
15 - 7 - eoren1
16 - 6 - chertioga
17 - 6 - sunione
18 - 5 - vandana
19 - 5 - pyroPrints.com
20 - 5 - LiquidAir
21 - 4 - anwmn1
22 - 4 - speck26
23 - 4 - Annie222
24 - 3 - Aurora
25 - 3 - Tessa HD
26 - 3 - urbanaries
27 - 3 - heatherfeather
28 - 3 - shatch
29 - 2 - ristyz
30 - 2 - indiegirl
31 - 2 - annnna8888
32 - 1 - alex
33 - 1 - s.shinjin
34 - 1 - dizzy

Nikolai

Congrats!
WTG, everybody!
Special congrats for seastack: 3 out of 4!

osoi

Great Job to all who were selected... And to all try, there were some awsome photos in this round...


omg i made it....

Dalantech

Wow -I'm humbled to be in the company of some really great artists! Thanks!! :cool

padu

wow... that was very humbling... not even one vote. and I even thought I had some chances judging from the unnoficial popular votes...

next time I promisse I won't forget the title :cry

seastack

Nikolai wrote:

WTG, everybody!
Special congrats for seastack: 3 out of 4!

Ah man, you're keeping track ... thanks Nikolai. And thanks to Shay and the Tabulatron3000 for posting the rankings, helps give some insight into the judging. Very helpful.

Nikolai

seastack wrote:

Ah man, you're keeping track ...

Like you don't :-)
Of course I do, I wanna know who'm I competing with in May:-)

JFreeman

Thanks guys, there's some amazing photographers there to be competing with come the middle of May

ChrisJ

Great shots!

6 artificial, 4 organic. Again a pretty even split. I definitely had trouble with this theme. I think fewer entries showed that others did, too.

I expect a *lot* more shots for LPS #5!

lynnesite

Great choices, wonderful entries, congrats to the ones now movin' on.

douglas

Congrats everyone, great entries

sherstone

Congratulations Everyone!
I'm honored to squeak into the 10th spot.

Lot's of surprises in this round, many I liked didn't even get one vote.
Thank you Shay for the breakdown that is very valuable information.

A big thank you to all the judges and the time they took to bring us
this excitement!

ultravox

OMG! Thank you v.much. I am still not beliveing this. To be selected amoung such wonderful semifinalists. For me, a day to remeber.

LE. original sized down with EXIF (just for the record.)

thebigsky

Oh dear, not a single vote, rejection I can handle, but delusion, that's a whole different can of worms.

Still looking at other entries that received no votes, I'm in good company.


Charlie

Greensquared

Okay, I am shocked, stunned, humbled and totally ecstatic! I was just so happy to have found this forum and be truly inspired by you all, and now this! Thank you, thank you to everyone who has offered me encouragement and support (especially Fashiznitsngrins!). Congrats to the other SFs too - awesome job!

thebigsky

Greensquared wrote:

Okay, I am shocked, stunned, humbled and totally ecstatic! I was just so happy to have found this forum and be truly inspired by you all, and now this! Thank you, thank you to everyone who has offered me encouragement and support (especially Fashiznitzngrins!). Congrats to the other SFs too - awesome job!

Well done Greensquared, your image is in a different league to most of the other entries and I'm glad the voting reflected this.

I'm looking forward to following your progress through the competition.

Charlie

VisualXpressions

Dalantech wrote:

Wow -I'm humbled to be in the company of some really great artists! Thanks!! :cool

First of all congratulations to all semi-finalists this go around "Soil sample" is especally noteworthy!

Dalentech... Very interesting shot, not one of my choices though; I guess because I don't understand what I'm looking at? Maybe because I haven't delved into macro photography... anyway someone please educate me? Is it artificial or organic? And what is the small flower? A reflection in a drop of water or a refrigerator magnet like my wife thinks?

Thanks
Winston

Dalantech

VisualXpressions wrote:

First of all congratulations to all semi-finalists this go around "Soil sample" is especally noteworthy!

Dalentech... Very interesting shot, not one of my choices though; I guess because I don't understand what I'm looking at? Maybe because I haven't delved into macro photography... anyway someone please educate me? Is it artificial or organic? And what is the small flower? A reflection in a drop of water or a refrigerator magnet like my wife thinks?

Thanks
Winston

I turned my kitchen sink into a studio for that one. It's a water drop falling in front of a flower and I used the flash to freeze its motion. The flower behind it (out of focus and in the upper left corner) is refracted in the drop. The real trick is getting the image of the flower in the drop in focus. I took that shot hand held and about a dozen frames before I got the drop where I wanted it. I was shooting at the minimum focusing distance of the lens (Canon's 100mm) so it is a true macro photograph (life size magnification).

Minimal post processing on the computer: I cloned out a small reflection from the flash and did a minor levels adjustment and bumped the highlights by about 5 percent. I also cloned out some of the flower in the background (odd reflection from getting damp). Spent all of five minutes in Photoshop Elements before I saved the RAW file as a jpg...

As for the theme: I looked up the word "organic" in the dictionary and one of the definitions is this:

"Fine Arts. of or pertaining to the shapes or forms in a work of art that are of irregular contour and seem to resemble or suggest forms found in nature."

So I went looking for a way to shoot something organic, to suggest the shape, but not to shoot it directly...

VisualXpressions

Dalantech wrote:

I turned my kitchen sink into a studio for that one. It's a water drop falling in front of a flower and I used the flash to freeze its motion. The flower behind it (out of focus and in the upper left corner) is refracted in the drop. The real trick is getting the image of the flower in the drop in focus. I took that shot hand held and about a dozen frames before I got the drop where I wanted it. I was shooting at the minimum focusing distance of the lens (Canon's 100mm) so it is a true macro photograph (life size magnification).

Minimal post processing on the computer: I cloned out a small reflection from the flash and did a minor levels adjustment and bumped the highlights by about 5 percent. I also cloned out some of the flower in the background (odd reflection from getting damp). Spent all of five minutes in Photoshop Elements before I saved the RAW file as a jpg...

As for the theme: I looked up the word "organic" in the dictionary and one of the definitions is this:

"Fine Arts. of or pertaining to the shapes or forms in a work of art that are of irregular contour and seem to resemble or suggest forms found in nature."

So I went looking for a way to shoot something organic, to suggest the shape, but not to shoot it directly...

Absolutely amazing! I never would have guessed Thanks so much for the explanation!

Winston

MaxThompson

Congratulations to all - the "Soil Sample" is the best! These are all great shots!

kingmamaof2

Congratulations to all the qualifiers!~and thanks Shay for the breakdown of points/votes. It obviously was a tough round to judge. Great job guys!

Swartzy

thebigsky wrote:

Oh dear, not a single vote, rejection I can handle, but delusion, that's a whole different can of worms.

Still looking at other entries that received no votes, I'm in good company.


Charlie

Not to worry Charlie......I'm with you on this one . Here, I thought my idea was incredibly creative....here's the great part of it.....we learned tons of new stuff! Yaaaa!

Congrats everyone for participating and way to go top 10ers There were many many great entries this time around, so if your's didn't make it, don't fret. Go get the next one.

Green2

Congratulations!

Greensquared wrote:

Okay, I am shocked, stunned, humbled and totally ecstatic! I was just so happy to have found this forum and be truly inspired by you all, and now this! Thank you, thank you to everyone who has offered me encouragement and support (especially Fashiznitsngrins!). Congrats to the other SFs too - awesome job!

Congratulations Emily! Great shot!
I am happy that you found some inspiration here.
This is a great community and forum. Well done. Thank you all for sharing and helping.

Congratulations to all of the other qualifiers! There are some really talented artists here.

Yes - we are related, and what is wrong with a little healthy competition amongst family members?

....Now, what to do for LPS #5 now that I have de-lurked.....

richtersl

I am in shock
But it's a very happy state of shock. There were some phenomenal entries this go-around and I was afraid to even open this thread this morning.

The encouragement and support from everyone here has been fantastic! You guys are the best cheerleaders!

Congrats to all the other semi-finalists!!!

thebigsky

Swartzy wrote:

Not to worry Charlie......I'm with you on this one . Here, I thought my idea was incredibly creative....here's the great part of it.....we learned tons of new stuff! Yaaaa!

Congrats everyone for participating and way to go top 10ers There were many many great entries this time around, so if your's didn't make it, don't fret. Go get the next one.

I've certainly learnt a few things, not sure they'll improve my photography mind.

Charlie

Tessa HD

congrats everyone!
that was fun!

Tessa HD

JillG

Congrats to all the winnersclap and to all who entered. Thanks also to the judges for their time and effort. It's a joy for me to see all the different takes on the themes ( sometimes I'm really surprised ):D and be involved in some of the works in progress. This challenge, as Shay probably intended, is making me think outside of my own little box. Of course I'd LOVE to qualify and I still have almost a year
Jill

Dalantech

VisualXpressions wrote:

Absolutely amazing! I never would have guessed Thanks so much for the explanation!

Winston

Anytime

Tentacion

padu wrote:

wow... that was very humbling... not even one vote. and I even thought I had some chances judging from the unnoficial popular votes...

next time I promisse I won't forget the title :cry

Your photo was a winner in my book, but I guess cuz you forgot the title that was a factor..Don't feel bad, I didn't get any votes either, good luck in the next round!!

padu

Tentacion wrote:

Your photo was a winner in my book, but I guess cuz you forgot the title that was a factor..Don't feel bad, I didn't get any votes either, good luck in the next round!!

Thanks for the encouraging words...

The bummer is that I actually HAD a title for the picture, just forgot to include :cry

In case anybody want to know (which I doubt), the title is "Allura Red"... which is one of the FDA's approved food colorant.

Dee

Congratulations
To the semi finalists and all who entered.