PCT Challenge "Toys" week ending 10-28-06

[XaiLo]

Alright boys and girls this bi-monthly challenge is "Toys" rules are no beating up your brothers and or sisters for their toys. Parents do not hijack your children no bribeing either. As always if you choose to accept this challenge Put your creative hats on and strut your stuff. Thanks in advance to all the participants hopefully these execises will make us all better photographers and artists...

PCT Challenges will have a two week duration in order to give those with limited time a chance to participate.

Good shooting ladies and gentlemen.

I'm off to reinstall XP have fun guys...

[XaiLo]

http://www.designsbyxailo.com/uploads/sep06/dog1.jpg

[truflip]

whats his name? cuddly? hi cuddly! rawr :cool:

[danielg]

http://static.flickr.com/73/215768947_7041ddf8f2.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/6/86318029_04197093d2.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/42/86114748_f867c33931.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/9/94046059_4d5f56fb94.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/40/94046490_cfc467ac26.jpg

[X-SOFT]

here is mine:


http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/8359/img0051gz2.jpg

Pikachu :>

[truflip]

here is mine:

Pikachu :>
thats a killer toy!!! electrifying ;)

[truflip]

daniel! thats a killer F50 great shots!

[Shosta]

It seems that I have some toys in my archive.
Two months ago I shot this when my little girl throw her cuddly toys over the bed. That gave me this idea:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c295/jmgaguilera/paisajes/IMG_7327.jpg

"Broken Hearts"

Regards

[truflip]

hey nice shot. i love the baby blue on that and the softness.. it portrays and says a lot about the toys! great work!

[MONDONGO_CON_CUAJITO]

homer and snoopy

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/MoNdOnGo_CoN_CuAjItO/homer.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/MoNdOnGo_CoN_CuAjItO/snoop.jpg

[TEMPA]

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[cat]

Would someone clarify for me whether photos need to be taken within a specific time frame? Ta ;)

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[cat]

Ok assuming there isn't a timeframe (!!!) a couple of my favourite toy pics!

http://www.snappycat.co.uk/POTD6_small.jpg

http://www.snappycat.co.uk/POTW3.jpg

http://www.snappycat.co.uk/POTW6.jpg

[XaiLo]

Cat, the ideal is that the pictures were taken and posted within the two week period of the Challenge. But it is a practicle world that we should live in this is for educational purposes. To get us to think about how and what we shoot; photography is about taking pictures. Some view it as a hobby others have higher asperations, either way this is good training and practice. There is also a train of thought out there that you can't learn much from forums I'd like to see that change. So the short answer is do it within the specified time period, but if that's not possible or practicle that's cool too. Have fun cat. hth

[cat]

There is also a train of thought out there that you can't learn much from forums I'd like to see that change.

Now who on earth would think like that! :D I've been dependent on forums from day one! I bought my first camera from a thread on a bargain forum, sort advice off one when looking to upgrade, advice again when looking for an add-on lens and in between have learnt how to use the ruddy things on threads just like these! Forums are invaluable, access to all that experience for nothing ;)

[XaiLo]

Just relaying what I had read cat, to a certain extent the writer did have a valid point I might add. All forums are not like this one and they can be time consuming and they should not be your sole source of photographic knowledge. It would be a sad day if no flower ever bloomed and opened up to the world so it could share it's beauty...:)

[TEMPA]

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Idea was right (photograph a toy catalogue that was delivered to my house today) but the execution didn't work (poor lighting, pic taken in my kitchen at 11.30pm.) Might have to try during daylight hours to see if the light is more kind...

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[Sungrazer]

I really like the black and white, Cat. The soccer one is nice as well. Impressive shot by Beckham. :D

This thread will be tough for me. I don't have any toys, unless you count my XTi. :D I have three young nieces but I won't see them until Thanksgiving..

[XaiLo]

No toys? what is this you speak of? lol you'll figure something out Sungrazer. :)

[AdamW]

Tempa: The pile of stuffed animals reminds me of when my daughters were young.

Cat: I love the army guy with soap suds and the one with the child reaching for the figure. Great stuff!

[AdamW]

Here's three from me. I'm new at this, so I'd appreciate some (gentle) constructive criticism and advice.

Thanks!

[TEMPA]

Tempa: The pile of stuffed animals reminds me of when my daughters were young.


Hey AdamW,

The stuffed toys are all my fiancees.
Accumulated over god knows how long a period of time !!!
I have thought about laying them all out end to end but I don't think I would have enough room. The pic doesn't do them justice, they are stacked two and three deep in places....

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[AdamW]

Tempa--Yeah, we've still got boxes and closets stuffed with 'em. It makes me think of my favorite Bill Owens photograph, titled "Responsibiliy":

http://www.artagogo.com/interview/owensinterview/Responsibility.jpg

[S2IS]

Great pics Cat!!! :D


My try, cropped,and sharpened

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8519/untitled1rq3.jpg


Original

http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/8017/img4391ck6.jpg

[AdamW]

A few more...

PP: Levels, cropping

[FLiPMaRC]

:cool: Great challenge! I'll see what I can come up with this weekend ;) :D

[XaiLo]

:cool: Great challenge! I'll see what I can come up with this weekend ;) :D


That's what I'm talking about get in there trooper. FLiPMaRC can't wait to see what you come up with... yeah! :cool:

[Tsanford]

This is my new Jato 3.3 RC Buggy made by traxxas. I have clocked it going 68mph! Here are my submissions:

http://avengernetwork.com/tylers-photos/toys/IMG_0034_1.jpg

http://avengernetwork.com/tylers-photos/toys/IMG_0036_1.jpg

http://avengernetwork.com/tylers-photos/toys/IMG_0037_1.jpg

All images have these properties:

Canon A620
Shooting Mode: AE
Shutter 1/60
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: auto
Lens 7.3 - 29.2 mm
Flash On
Custom White Balance

Tyler

[Tsanford]

They look really dark, in zoombrowser they are perfectly lit.

[nate1280]

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Camera: Digital Rebel XTi w/ EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
Aperture Value: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Focal Length: 49.0mm

Here's my first go, will try again tomorrow and get a bit more light on the subject (as well as a better setup). Just got the camera not long ago, be gentle :o

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Camera: Digital Rebel XTi w/ EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
Aperture Value: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Focal Length: 49.0mm

Here's my first go, will try again tomorrow and get a bit more light on the subject (as well as a better setup). Just got the camera not long ago, be gentle :o

Hey nate1280,

I like the look of the pic with the in focus section in the middle and on the lettering but is it just me or is that pic quite "noisy"?

I was surprised to see that amount noise but then again it was taken at ISO 1600. I would be interested to see the same pic taken at a lower ISO for a "noise" comparison....

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[rickalm2000]

I took this a few weeks ago while visiting my family, it's my nephews remote control car. He lost interest in playing with it when he saw the camera...

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l34/xtiguy/IMG_0333.jpg

[BowerR64]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/guitar/shielding.jpg

Canon S2, ISO 50, 1/125, F3.5 medium flash

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/guitar/HellCharvel.jpg

A510, 1/60, ISO 100, F3.5 using 100 watt flood light, 2 75watt daylight bulbs in clamp lights.

[nate1280]

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Ok, here's another try, swapped out a rail car for an RS-3 engine :o

Shutter: 1/25
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 400
Focal: 55mm

some USM applied, processed w/ camera raw & CS2. (So I got 3 factors of i dunno what i'm doin :D)

[cvicisso]

I've been playing around with B/W lately. Took this one today on the beach with my S2 IS. It was just before sunset (as you can tell from the shadow. I'll post the EXIF if anyone is interested (but I guess it doesn't matter as much since I PP'd it), but I shot it in Program mode at 1/160 f/4.0, 'sunny' white balance, and I think 'vivid.' Then I tweaked it with a free B/W PS plugin in IrfanView. Oh - and resized for posting. This is my first attempt at plugins - so be nice! :D

Hope this works...

[XaiLo]

beautiful pics guys keep them coming.

[Tsanford]

I like your guitar pics Bower, I own 3 Guitars and a Bass, I have been playing for over 8 years. That wooden one is my favorite, On my old guitar, I sanded all the paint off so that it looked sort of like that.

As for Nate, I like how you had one train in focus and everything else was blurred. I like the one with the higher iso better, The train still has quality, but the blur looks better.

Tyler

[Wesan]

Is there still time to post some toy photos? I hope so, because I've finally taken some after I got my camera back! :D

Here is an old toy that my sister has used in school, to teach her pupils (age 7 to 9) how milk is...made... Pretty cool toy cow - if you squeeze it, it sucks in water or milk (or any liquid, I guess...lol) through its "mouth". Then, you can get it out through the...yeah...you got it... :p Post processing: gamma adjusted, contrast, unsharp mask and resize.
http://hem.bredband.net/wesake/Pics/IMG_2241_gamma_contrast_unsharp_mask_resize.jpg

This is a more modern toy. It's the high-tech dog called "Tekno the robotic puppy". A gift from my girlfriend several years ago. :D Post processing: auto contrast and colour, unsharp mask, resize and colour cast adjusted.
http://hem.bredband.net/wesake/Pics/IMG_2299_auto_contrast_and_colour_unsharp_mask_res ize_colour_cast.jpg

[BowerR64]

I call this shot "quality" :D
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Camera/FlatFoto%203/Quality.jpg

settings

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/BowerR64/Camera/FlatFoto%203/Qualitysettings.jpg

[XaiLo]

Wesan you inspired me to dig these guys up. :)

http://www.designsbyxailo.com/uploads/oct06/cat.jpg


Back in the box they go...

http://www.designsbyxailo.com/uploads/oct06/bikes.jpg

[Wesan]

Wesan you inspired me to dig these guys up. :) ...


Hehehe...nice to be a source of inspiration! :D Your guys seem to be newer than my guy. :)

[Shosta]

My six year old son saw the 'pikachu' and wanted to add his own photo to this thread :).
This is his latest photo of his latest work!:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c295/jmgaguilera/paisajes/fotopinchosmiguel.jpg


Tv 1/5 (He has a steady hand!!!! :rolleyes: )
Av 3.2
EV -1/3
ISO 100

[toriaj]

Good job on the snail!!! And on the photo. You're growing a photographer, Shosta! :D