Cliosport Photography Challenge Round 14: Texture

[ukaskew]

Congrats to Anim@l for his victory in the last round with his image depicting the theme 'Night'

The next subject, chosen by him is:


Texture


Comp runs from now until midnight Sunday 21st September. Any photos entered must be taken between now and midnight September 21st.

Rules:

- Post a maximum of 3 images at one time, you can come back with more pics if you have tried something different, but please stick to 3 pics max each time.

- You must flag one image as your entry, feel free to repost your chosen image towards the end of the comp with 'entry' above it, this will be placed into a new thread at the end of the alloted time for people to vote on.

I will no longer be automatically taking the first image somebody posts, only images with entry clearly written above or below it will be accepted

- Try to keep posted images to a max of around 800px wide.

- No rules on photoshop use etc, but this is first and foremost a photography contest, not a photoshop contest.

- All images entered must be taken within the dates of the competition specified above.

- Winner chooses next subject

 

[Anim@l]

Popular theme so far....

 

[Ian]

Lol, didn't see the last one finish, congrats on the win! Should be plenty of entries tbh, can be applied to pretty much anything!

 

[Anim@l]

Cheers mate. I thought that "Texture" is suitably challenging, but yet broad enough to get a good variety of shots. Doubt if i'll be able to get out at all and take anything myself, but we'll see.

 

[ukaskew]

Popular theme so far....

They always start slow, give it time

 

[Ian]

Hopefully a bit of inspiration.
Previous winning photos (apologies if my sp&g is off, or details are incorrect, I'm tired!):
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01. Kitchen
Winner: No winner/ pilot round?

02. Yellow
Winner: big_peaches

03. Capture The Effects of Modern Industry on Wildlife
Winner: planetx

04. Spring Landscapes
Winner: Kris86, James.

05. Sky / Clouds
Winner: planetx

06. Old & New
Winner: andywright182

07. Macro / Close-Up
Winner: andywright182

...
​

 

[Ian]

08. Black & White
Winner: J0sh

09. Body Parts
Winner: WilT

10. Motion
Winner: Schweppy

11. Running Water
Winner: Jezz

12. Graffiti
Winner: AndyRS, halfpint

13. Night / Reflections
Winner: Anim@l

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[Brown.]

ENTRY:

 

[Ian]

Ok I'll keep this moving. This is my entry for now, but I'll hopefully replace it:

ENTRY

 

[Paul_G]

Here's an initial entry from me, still getting used to my new EOS 40D

ENTRY:

 

[Gaz]

What do we mean by textures?

 

[Ian]

I was just thinking of anything that makes you want to touch it lol.

I took that photo of the teddy cos you have about 6 different materials/surfaces in one shot, although compared to the other photos it looks a little washed out, so may have to come up with a new one.

 

[Gaz]

I was just thinking of anything that makes you want to touch it lol.

dont be rude, lol, i might have a good one for this then, bare with me took it last week on holiday

 

[aucky]

Entry:

 

[Gaz]

If we can have a teddy bear we can have

Entry

MONKEY lol

 

[Ian]

Haha, nice one Gaz. My explanation was entirely innocent, lol. Looks like I definitely need to brush up on photographic technique anyways.

What's the purple flowing out of the rock, aucky? And have you been trying to smoke pine cones again?

Looks like we could have another good round on our hands.

 

[aucky]

Haha, nice one Gaz. My explanation was entirely innocent, lol. Looks like I definitely need to brush up on photographic technique anyways.

What's the purple flowing out of the rock, aucky? And have you been trying to smoke pine cones again?

Looks like we could have another good round on our hands.

Guilty lol. it was a bit sooty.
The purple stuff is just candle wax..

 

[Gaz]

Haha, nice one Gaz. My explanation was entirely innocent, lol. Looks like I definitely need to brush up on photographic technique anyways.

What's the purple flowing out of the rock, aucky? And have you been trying to smoke pine cones again?

Yeah yeah they all say that lol

i was just wondering that, looks like alien blood not that i no what alien blood looks like, lol

 

[Anim@l]

I can't submit this as i took it earlier in the year, but this says "Texture" to me.

 

[Ian]

I think alien this hypothetical alien blood gives a slightly more charming angle to the photo, but I'll settle for candle wax. Alien candle wax.

Right fellas I need some help if you don't mind. Been following Chris/ukaskew's advice on DOF etc and you both seem to have achieved it, but for the life of me I can't get a decent blurry background. I've set the aperture to it's widest of 3.5 and I can only assume that my focusing sensor-y type thing is picking up the wrong thing? Obviously not gonna get it in the teddy shot really, but whatever I try seems to fail.

I will of course understand if you don't want to help, because I'll undoubtedly win the competition, save for the interference of sub-standard hardware. Ahem. We can dream, but I wouldn't mind some advice!

 

[Ian]

I can't submit this as i took it earlier in the year, but this says "Texture" to me.

Really like that photo. It gets across the point I was aiming for about being almost able to reach out and touch it.
Like they say pictures.. 1000 words etc..

 

[Anim@l]

Right fellas I need some help if you don't mind. Been following Chris/ukaskew's advice on DOF etc and you both seem to have achieved it, but for the life of me I can't get a decent blurry background. I've set the aperture to it's widest of 3.5 and I can only assume that my focusing sensor-y type thing is picking up the wrong thing? Obviously not gonna get it in the teddy shot really, but whatever I try seems to fail.

I will of course understand if you don't want to help, because I'll undoubtedly win the competition, save for the interference of sub-standard hardware. Ahem. We can dream, but I wouldn't mind some advice!

You could probably get a blurry background on that teddy tbh. It depends how you frame the shot and what you focus on. In the shot of the tree trunk, i was nearly hugging it and looking straight up. (getting some very strange looks as well lol) What kit you using?

 

[Ian]

I'm just using a standard Fuji S5700. The specs are as shown here:

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/consumer/digital/digital-cameras/d-slr-long-zoom/finepix-s5700/Specs

I'm holding off on getting a D40 or anything like that, because I've not spent enough time getting up to a decent standard yet. Also, I assumed that with the background being so close to the teddy it would be almost impossible to differentiate between them in such a way as to single out the teddy?

I'll probably end up down at the nature reserve tomorrow or something, best way is through practice I guess. Won't mess up this thread with my questions!

 

[Mish]

My first entry and one of my first shots with an SLR camera. I have many mountains to climb before I get close to you lot, so it seems!

Explaination- basically, I feel out of all my shots so far, this encapsulates 'texture' - the rough, weathered wood, the barbed wire fence and the soft reeds and grass behind this.

Re-sized, to host on here... I have a hi-res version.

 

[James.]

And a cheeky silhouette on the horizon to boot. Lovely

 

[Mish]

Tha's my old man.. completely unintentionally in the way- for once I'm happy he was!

 

[Sarah]

got along way to get to above specs but im an SLR newbie

Entry

 

[Paul_G]

You will struggle to get a really shallow DOF with a fixed lens camera (or any point and shoot) due to the way they are built.

Best way to create DOF, and a blurry background (beautiful bokeh), with a point and shoot is to use the long end of the lens and zoom in on your subject, and if appropriate use the macro setting on the camera to enable focusing at close distance.

See the following link for a practical example:

http://digitalphotographyblogs.com/2006/08/11/point-shoot-depth-of-field-part-ii/

Cheers

Paul

 

[Ian]

Nice one Paul, cheers for the info. Not going to get a chance to experiment for a few days and then I'm without the internet so at least there will be someone to prop up the votes . Onwards and upwards hopefully.

 

[Ian]

Ok couldn't resist, so had a really quick mess. Nothing special, but slightly improved:

New Entry

 

[TaMrLb]

the title is a bit vague tbh here is my entry

it's possible that i might be onto another loser with this

 

[BenWall]

the title is a bit vague tbh here is my entry

it's possible that i might be onto another loser with this

wft lol

 

[Reyes]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2855971713_ac3015cfec.jpg?v=0



FFS WTF?!

Why wont my pic upload?

 

[BenWall]

I'm not going to class this as my entry as I will no doubt be taking some more pictures.

 

[cK]

Entry

 

[Brown.]

Whada brick

 

[Marky_]

Entry

FFS. I did a brick one earlier. Mines not as good as this either.

 

[Bazzon]

It is texture. entry.

 

[Clart]

entry

 

[Leeshez]

Some good ones there.