Shades of Flowers
by gmacpro

Comment:
Background:
In the fall 2002, I created a photo from several single photos from our
flower garden. It was printed at the photo lab, laminated and mounted on wood.

Current:
With the colour challenge, I took the original soft copy of the created
photo and converted the entire image to gray scale. Drew in an oval of what to cut out and printed this new image on a black and white laser printer.
Placed two sided tape on the back of the paper along the oval and cut the center out for a nice clean line. Removed the backside of the tape and aligned the gray oval printout directly on top of the laminated mounted coloured photo.

Now it was just a matter of taking the shot. Tried several but this one was placed in direct sunlight and by closing the window blinds added the dark shading thru the photo.

Hope that is clear enough, if not drop a line - gmacpro@yahoo.ca

8 P.M.
by gmacpro

Comment:
Some were wondering how this submission was done....

With one standard flashlight, two coloured funnels and camera mounted on tripod in hand I started.

Set camera to a 15 second exposure.
Set the timer for 10 seconds.
Set up an object across the room to focus on.
Began the shot.... Got focus and started the 10 second count down.
I turned the light off in the room and positioned myself just in front of the focused object.
Raised my hands with the blue tunnel over the flashlight - turned on light and made a circle.
Turned flashlight off.
Dropped the blue tunnel and placed the red funnel over the flashlight.
Positioned where the clock arms would go, turned on the flashlight and made the two arms.
Flashlight off, moved below to the writing area.
Flashlight on, wrote Time out and turned flashlight off.
Waited for the camera to complete the remaining of the 15 seconds.
Turned room light on and checked the picture for results.

Easy eh? Not really as it's all trail and error.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Gordon

You judge - did the driver obey the sign?
by gmacpro

Comment:
Thanks for all the comments. First off, the driver did STOP. The driver had no choice as a car past in front while at the STOP sign. If you look carefully in front of the car, you can see a set of lights (red on top – yellowish on bottom). The same set of lights are on the short side of the STOP sign. The vehicle in the photo isn’t going that way as the driver has turned on their left blinker. You can see the vehicle travels less distance for each blink. That about covers it.

gmacpro

Alaskan Landscape
by bdshort

Comment:
Funny there is no snow in Alaska this time of year?

Stranger In My Cup
by Rackat

Comment:
Great photo!! How did you do it?

Who let the dogs out? Who?
by justine

Comment:
Good One!!

Color My World (Chicago)
by Gracious

Comment:
First comment I've made.
What are those / is that thing. Oh, it's a slinky. Good one.
How did you colour it?