365/52 Photo Challenge
The 365/52 Photo Challenge is to take at least a photo every day. At the end of each week (Saturday), select one photo you have taken and email to rockcameraclub@gmail.com. Submitted photos will be displayed on this web page.
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Ted Burrowes - Fun With Fungi
Ever since late last summer, when I first started noticing them, I have made a point of watching for mushrooms and fungi and now have dozens of satisfying shots of such. The variations in color, shape, size are quite remarkable. Brushy Hills has been a particularly bountiful source, and as winter has progressed, I have learned that they do not all just die back and disappear. Last weekend’s warm, damp weather was apparently all some of them needed to perk back up and put on quite a show. This photo is of a modest-sized congregation, made more interesting by virtue of the combination of fungi and lichens. The colors and shapes draw my eyes back to the photo again and again. My trusty iPhone 8 is again the instrument of capture :-) .
SaraCoffey - Details
Details ~ I've always been fascinated by pine cones. They seem like these free gifts just waiting to be picked up, admired & taken home. I brought the pine cone inside along w/ some needles so I could control the lighting & avoid the wet ground. I light painted areas of the pine cone w/ an LED flashlight in addition to a clamp light pointing up beside the cone in an otherwise dark room. I applied a very small percentage of a Topaz HDR filter. I feel like the tip should be in sharper focus but its not, & rather than reshoot I'm
moving on to next week. Settings were: F8 1.60sec iso100 @50mm.
moving on to next week. Settings were: F8 1.60sec iso100 @50mm.
Peggy Fleming - Cords
As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches a one year anniversary this month, I am seeing everything in my house with fresh eyes. iPhone.
Ellen Martin - The Morning Ritual
Just drinking coffee this morning I said – OK, this is it! I replaced the image I intended to send.
Chuck Almarez - My Cup Runneth Over
I ordered a fancier frame than I normally would for a still life photo soon to be hung in an upcoming show. The frame arrived days before the photo and it just sat there looking at me while I searched for a subject worthy of this week’s 365/52 Photo Challenge. At some point I had it propped against a black backdrop and immediately loved the way it contrasted with and framed the void beind it. What a perfect frame to surround my weekly offering! I thought a photo of the flood-stage creek behind the Historic Masonic Theatre would be a perfect compliment to the frame, but placing it “inside” the frame just wouldn’t do. As the water rushed to the end of frame and just stopped it just seemed to be artificially (and unnaturally) constrained. I thought the best solution would be to let nature take its course and overrun the man-made barrier. Maybe “Freedom Prevails” would have been a better title.
Frame Image: 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 12,800, EV -1.5, 42mm, Canon 5D III. Water Image: 1/120, f/1.8, ISO 40, 24mm equivalent, iPhone 7 Pro
Basic edits in Lightroom. The edge of the frame was removed using a Layer Mask in Photoshop.
Frame Image: 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 12,800, EV -1.5, 42mm, Canon 5D III. Water Image: 1/120, f/1.8, ISO 40, 24mm equivalent, iPhone 7 Pro
Basic edits in Lightroom. The edge of the frame was removed using a Layer Mask in Photoshop.
Bob Kovach - Tiny Flower
I just purchased a new toy - a 60mm macro lens. So naturalIy I had to try it out. The subject is an unidentified house plant with tiny flowers. The flower in this photo is only 1/2" diameter. In addition to macro focusing I did a focus stack of 10 images, using a LED light for illumination. Shot at f/2.8, 1/15 sec, ISO 200.
Eben Ostby - Sycamore Valley Church
I didn’t really even know that Sycamore Valley existed until this week. I had taken out an old Brownie camera that I had cleaned up and adapted to use currently-available film; I was searching near Kerr’s Creek for suitable subjects to test it with. A passer-by told me that this had been an Adventist church before it was more or less abandoned. I liked the raking sunlight on the clapboards and the general feeling of disuse.
Leil Hackett - Ice Cream
Judy Robichaux - Textures
We were traveling on a new trail through the woods last week and I saw this tree for the first time. I'll probably go back and try other shots of it. iPhone photo uncropped, edited slightly in Lightroom.
Ann Hopkins - Flowers
Valentine's flowers from my brother. I like the stark black background and contrast and the composition feels satisfying to me.
Lucile Kesterson - Flower Patch
This was a gift bag that caught my eye. I used my
Samsung Smartphone which shows the following settings. F2, 1/30 sec, ISO422.
Samsung Smartphone which shows the following settings. F2, 1/30 sec, ISO422.
Len Zentz - Woodpecker.jpg
This pileated woodpecker was taken mid morning on March 1st. It was taken with a 600mm Tamron Lens.
Andrea Popick - Helleobore
My TG-5 olympus has a setting for close-up images. I was practicing trying to get the flower in focus (hand held) while on the plant. You can only see the image on the screen so I find that very hard for me. The sun and breeze did not cooperate so I clipped a flower and shot it inside on my mouse pad. The camera also has the feature to do focus stacking, focus bracketing and microscope control so I will have to try them another time when I can put the camera on a tripod.
Mike Smith - Memories Don't Fade
My mother passed away last month. We got a sympathy flower basket from a relative which is now a dried flower arrangement. I took this image with my iphone SE in the morning light on the table my mother used as she grew up.