Feb 2012 Favourite Image of the previous month

[Barry]

In this thread, you are invited to upload your favourite image that your took or created during January 2012. Fell free to add a story to go with the image, or how you edited it, or just why you felt it was your favourite image.

[DonS]

I think my fave picture from last month is this picture and this is really a lucky shot...



I took this picture when I was doing a safety stop at 5 meters with a dead battery in my camera...
Suddenly my dive guide tap my shoulder, point and make a small sign.. I saw this little cute babe with hopeless, all I can do is watch it moving around the soft coral..
And then I try to push my luck buy turning on the camera and YES I have it with the red battery signal blinking I move towards it... Without adjusting anything I have a focus lock and click... The camera went off again... I cannot check the result till back to my room and change the battery..
Surprise to see that this picture turns out okay.... ;D ;D

[jeeperman]

I think this is my favourite image of January. In fact pretty much the first image of the month as well. While I came away with some great shots that evening, this is my favourite due to the motion in the display. While some of the others are more colorful, this one remains my favourite of the night. If you mist my posting of the others and would like to see them, you can find them in the link in my Signature.

[chrisc]

I might get all gushy here, but this image represents nearly a year's worth of learning about the world of digital photography. It is the cumulation of working withing a quite different rectangular format than I was used to, thus requiring some different compositional studies. I think the hardest of the lessons learned was dealing with more latitiude in exposure, tonal values, and purity of color, whether in B&W or in pure color.

My largest learning gain came about when David Byrne posted his work on the forum. The richnesses of his blacks, clarity in his whites and control of his midtones combined with stunning compositions put my creative juices in overdrive.

However, had it not been for this forum in the first place and its devotion to making everything better, I would never have been in the position to take advantage of Cannockwolf's ideas and workflows.

And, though I feel like I've grown exponentially since I joined F-Stop Cafe, I still feel like I have just begun this journey into understanding digital photography and can finally embrace its characteristics with the same vim and vigor I've given to film based media for all my years.

This image is a combination of David's exposure layering and subtractive editing combined with another workflow I'd been working on which essentially did the same thing, only additively. I used a little of both and still do today though haven't solidified it enough to do a tutorial on how it works.

[robnaylor]

Taken on the last day of Jan.
Late evening, the wood burner burning, snow outside, and the cat was half asleep. It all just felt right for a shot.
This was it...

[The Wirefox]

Rob you are certainly back with a bang. This is really quite something and less is certainly more. I feel vindicated in my observations to KatieStudent now Superb use of primary form photography.

[The Wirefox]

I do not really have favourites as such but I keep coming back to this one. It just works for me...although viewed against Robs image above I think I could go far further in isolating the primary form.

[The Wirefox]

I have just noticed..I have not changed my logo date yet...and its February already

[maryloveslucy]

Feb 2, 2012 11:47:55 GMT chrisc said:

I might get all gushy here, but this image represents nearly a year's worth of learning about the world of digital photography. It is the cumulation of working withing a quite different rectangular format than I was used to, thus requiring some different compositional studies. I think the hardest of the lessons learned was dealing with more latitiude in exposure, tonal values, and purity of color, whether in B&W or in pure color.

My largest learning gain came about when David Byrne posted his work on the forum. The richnesses of his blacks, clarity in his whites and control of his midtones combined with stunning compositions put my creative juices in overdrive.

However, had it not been for this forum in the first place and its devotion to making everything better, I would never have been in the position to take advantage of Cannockwolf's ideas and workflows.

And, though I feel like I've grown exponentially since I joined F-Stop Cafe, I still feel like I have just begun this journey into understanding digital photography and can finally embrace its characteristics with the same vim and vigor I've given to film based media for all my years.

This image is a combination of David's exposure layering and subtractive editing combined with another workflow I'd been working on which essentially did the same thing, only additively. I used a little of both and still do today though haven't solidified it enough to do a tutorial on how it works.

Chris... that is really neat to read. I know how much you love old skool film photography... I know how hard it is to embrace change when what we are changing from is something that we fully and completely loved and enjoyed. Thanks for sharing... not just that image and the story with it... all your images... and how you see what you see... thanks for sharing... you... with us.

[maryloveslucy]

Don, Paul, Rob and Steve... love them all.



I think I took some. Not any real 'favorites' but I do like this image of Phat Ziggy.

[Barry]

Well I think my Favourite image taken in January was this one of Llanthony Priory, it was heavily processed in Photoshop to get this final image. The shot was taken with a wide angle lens, which meant that I had some very angled buildings to straighten, and as the sun was shining the sky was very bland and blue, so I imported another sky that I had to try and give it more atmosphere. I also have a monochrome version, which I feel also works well, which I have edited a bit more to remove the some of the shadow areas.

[rasbury]

I would have to say that this is my favorite shot from January.Out of all the flower images that I took that that day,this one turned out to be the best image as I took a little more time to set this one up.Using the trees in the distant background to try and get a good looking backdrop for the yellow rose worked out rather well.Will be entering this image at the local fair next month in there photography contest,along with two others,to see how well they do.

[jjbacoomba]

Think this is one of my favorites for the month. I was pleased with the outcome after alot of PP work. Did alot of cloning in of some foliage in the far background to hide some bright areas, also tried to darken some of the bright branches. added alittle infra red after.



IMGP9311AB&W by ebamismoi, on Flickr

[katynoelle]

I just love seeing all of this! I have to go figure it out - I have a million images. (Oh, just pick something, Katy!)

I just wanted to say that I love this thread and seeing and reading all of your thoughts. Good idea, whoever!!!

[Barry]

Feb 9, 2012 13:35:09 GMT @katynoelle said:

I just wanted to say that I love this thread and seeing and reading all of your thoughts. Good idea, whoever!!!

Don't worry, there will be another one next month, with this months favourite image ;D