Picket Fence, Ivy — Winter, 2009
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Not your greatest work for the dpc'ers Robt but it does have a quaintness to it :) Roll on the April FS!

Something odd about that triangle...
by Citadel

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I reshot my Esher-esque penrose Triangle for this challenge but opted for another idea - I was using wood (again) but didn't have time to shave the vertical piece for shape.

Life on the pond
by trevytrev

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Ooohh, I liked this and love this shot! The water is sublime and if the ducks? where more central in the overexposed it would be an instant fav, how long was the exposure for this?

After a second viewing the ducks are fine so am adding as a fav :)

DSC_2834.jpg
by cmtc

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My first thought was B&W, my second was straighten it, my third was I'm stupid cos this works so well 'as is'. Nice one Cody and hope you slept well there!

Mission Creek Estuary
by Germaine

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I think I only have about 5 sets of sunrise shots (ever) and they were all taken at the same place so will make a note to be up early enough for a sunrise shot at least once this year!

webs
by krnodil

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Originally posted by bvy: Isn't a Lensbaby a lens? So this isn't truly "lensless"? Or is it? I don't know how the thing works. I guess I should buy one and find out... Whatever it is or isn't, I do like it. It's a dreamy glow that the optic brings to an already peaceful subject. Nice work!

Good question Brian! Yes, the Lensbay has several optics with lenses in them and you can swop lenses at will (cool) they also do a pinhole/zoneplate fitment that doesn't have a lens/optic so yes, it is lensless :)

Great shot Karen and the ZP glow works really well here. How does this work with either a yellow (sepia) or blue (nightime) colour?

Reflection
by trevytrev

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Very nice, especially so as I'm not a big fan of the LB pinhole (probably because I don't like the results I'm getting with it). The foreground grass helps take me back into the image and view those great reflections and silky water.

. . .
by krnodil

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Karen! my apologies! I've not been keeping up on my pms/emails so will answer yours tomorrow but will say, the book 'panel' is currently Talj and myself with an unamed fotog casting the final vote if we disagree - 1 vote for this thus far girl :)

A Patch of Blue
by bvy

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I like the muted colours here but do wonder how it looks in black and white? I read the comments about cropping out the sky but think both the sky and angle help the image say more than a straight tight shot without the sky.

the girl
by Ecce_Signum

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Originally posted by bvy: Fantastic. Did you do a lot of post-processing here? I'm wondering just how much of the effect is truly the optic. (It's just a technical curiousity for me. The result is what matters.)

Apart from converting to B&W I just did a big crop, its actually the cover of CPN (the current Canon Professional Magazine