Rich_Phelan

Submitted as a competition entry for my local photo club where the topic was "The Seven Deadly Sins / Seven Heavenly Virtues".

 

I was on a field trip with some other photographers (one is in the background) and we were looking at the Christmas windows at Macy's in downtown Chicago. This was just one of several people looking for help. The image is unfortunately a bit blurry as it was handheld and very low light.

Here's a black and white version - Rich

This was taken just a few feet away from 'Survivor' and is from the same fire. This was the door of apartment 3B across the hall from the apartment where the fire occured.

This was taken along a major highway south of Nogales and is one of three shrines to St Death at the site. As it was built by the local drug lord for his workers to use, we didn't stay very long.

 

- Rich

This image was taken of a wall in a stairwell after a fire. The black at the top 2/3 of the image is from the soot. The white verticle lines are from the water used to put out the fire. If you look at the handprints you can see that they are on top of the soot but under the water. They were made some time during the fire.

 

- Rich

Comments and suggestions please.

A grab shot at a county fair. I like the b&w selenium tone much

better than the

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Comments and critiques appreciated.

This just caught my eye and I had to give a rating. I like this!

I like this angle!

I'm not sure if I want to follow the tree line or the machines. Crop it in a bit more to emphasize the machines and I think you'd have a stronger picture. Don't worry about keeping the trees symetrical.

I was walking around the Midway during the State Fair and stopped for a while at this booth. This couple really caught my eye, but the light was so low that it was hard to get a shot without flash so I turned up the ISO to 3200. This one was a challenge to get the noise out. Here's a 100% crop from the original image. I used the NeatImage plugin and tweaked the analyzed parameters to get this result. I also let NI do the sharpening to a much better result than PS.

Thanks Amar. I've updated the exposure information and this about as fast as this lens will go. I'll try the 24mm f2.8 next time... or maybe it's time for that 16-35L f2.8??

Experimenting with a wide angle lens and an extream closeup of my

grandson. Originally in color, converted to B&W with PS channel

mixer. Comments and suggestions please!

My grandson was enjoying his first time at the piano.

Witolda - Great tips - thanks. Very quickly yes - they were running at about 181mph at the time. This was my first time trying the panning and I'll use your advice for the next race. Not sure how familiar you are with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway but on the inside at the start finish line there is a 10 story building called the Pagoda that houses the track owners and officials. I was lucky enough to be on the 3rd level of the Pagoda as the guest of a race sponsor. If you like there are more pictures (good and bad!) here.

 

Timed exposure of the State Fair Midway. I'm trying to show all of

the activity, action and motion that goes on in this busy place.

Comments, suggestion and obseravations welcomed.

Witolda - I have to agree with you! I'm not very fond of this picture, but it was the best I could come up with at the time. :-) This is probably a better example. I attempted over 100 panning pictures that day and was able to keep only 5.

Because of the 25 second exposure and a bit of movement in the boats, some of them are a little blurred. I was also experimenting than an Expodisc for custom white balance.

 

Comments, suggestions and observations welcomed.

I though of lightening this up some, but I like it better a little dark like this.

 

Comments, suggestions and observastions welcomed.

Comments, suggestions and observations welcomed.

Looks a bit dark and the tiny bit of sky at the top is distracting.

Great DOF!

Simple beauty in the common everyday surroundings - there if you know where to look. Well done.

Focus distance from the EXIF data was 0.6m