Winners: FLUID

Good morning fellow M24 bloggers! Ready for to hear who the winners of this challenge are?

Drum roll please....

First place goes to Shelby for her oh so awesome "Droplets" shot.

Second place was tied for Teri with her majestic shot of "Fluid in Motion" and Melanie with her "Fluid, both definitions".

Way to go ladies...YOU ROCK!

Everyone did a super job with this one...it was fun seeing all of the different ways FLUID could be interpreted!

Have a great weekend!

Let it FLY!

I promise it's before midnight here.

I attended my brother's State Track Meet. He threw discus, and I am very proud of him. He has to have a very FLUID motion to get the furthest possible throw.

I didn't get my F/stop high enough, but he only had 3 throws so I wasn't able to make the adjustments. The end result is interesting with the blur. The blur by his right arm is the just-released discus.


I cropped, then applied a 30-year newspaper finish. I think it looks kind of cool.

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VOTING: Fluid

Wow! TONS of great submissions this time...artistic, unique and fresh!

Great job everyone!

Now, at Rachel's request, please only vote for your favorite photo. I don't know about you, but that is going to be hard for me!

Good luck everyone!

Fluid: With the Wind

This is the grass in my front yard. My husband put patch treatments on yucky spots two weeks ago, so we can't mow it for another four weeks. Problem is, the weekend before that, he put some kind of Miracle Gro type thing on it, so now it's growing so fast, but we can't mow it. So he weed-whacks the whole yard, which is actually kinda funny. Last night, he did the whole outside of the lawn, but didn't finish the middle, which is still long. Well, he finished it tonight, so it's not long anymore, but it was when I snapped this photo. I like how long grass sways with the wind. It looks fluid-like to me.

About the photo: adjusted exposure, made black and white, added frame.

(You can see my runners-up here if you'd like.)

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Fluid Knowledge

Just when I start getting comfortable with the knowledge that I've gleaned on photography, something else comes from left field, smacks me on the side of the head, and rocks my world, which just teaches me that all knowledge is fluid and changes from day to day. This time it was my husband showing me this amazing type of editing called the Orton Effect, which takes certain photos (only select photos work with this) from hum-drum to WOW!!! Plant photos are especially great for this. I put a tutorial on my photo blog if you want to know how to do the this. Unfortunately, I am posting this from work (I made my hubby email it to me) so I don't have the photo exposure info. When I get home, I'll post the SOOC of this photo on this same post so you can see the difference.



As promised, here's the SOOC.

Fluid Breakfast

A cup of soy milk, a handful of blackberries and a handful of frozen cranberries, throw it in the blender and what do you get? A delicious, nutritious FLUID breakfast! If ya can't tell, we are big smoothie fans at my house.

I had a hard time deciding on which picture to post but decided on this one because it was a little bit more creative, I guess. I'll post the second picture just for kicks though.

What do you think...which one would you have posted for the challenge? How would you have made the pictures more visually interesting? I took these this morning and wasn't going to post them because I've seen the ROCKIN' pictures coming in and was a bit intimidated, BUT, I figured that's no way to learn ;). So, let me have it. CC PLEASE. Thanks you guys!

Oh forgot to mention, I was really experimenting with lighting in these pics. Just a side note :).

50 mm, f/3.5, 1/50, ISO400, spot metering

Don't Cry Over....

Cleaning Up the Fluids...

I woke up this morning to the sound of a toilet overflowing (True story! Sad... but true!) Later that morning, my son's diaper leaked on my lap, then he made a puddle on our carpet after his bath. I'm sad to say that I had a lot of experience with fluids this morning, just not any that I can take pictures of! : ) It got me thinking of how thankful I am for all the fluids I have around the house to clean up all our happy accidents, and keep my home clean! My dishwasher is leaking so I've been doing the dishes for our family of five by hand, and will be for another two weeks until my landlords can put in a new one! A small sacrifice, and a great photo-op!

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Fluid Motion

Everybody has done amazing water shots and I just couldn't figure out the buttons and doo-hickeys on my brand new camera (you read that right, folks, BRAND SPANKIN' NEW clicker!!! happy jigs all round!) anywhoo... I have yet to fine-tune my settings to make water look awesome-possum so I opted for another element.
FI-YAHHHH... (that's "fire" in a weird accent... don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about). I used my Fireworks setting (sigh, I love that I have SETTINGS now) and holed myself in the bathroom all morning to get some crazy shots. Then I Boosted and Define/Sharpened it.

Fluid down the window

I know this isn't original in any way, but it was whatI could think of.
Rain has been abundant these past 2 days here. :)

Fluid...both definitions

I seriously took so many "idea" shots, it was hard to decide which one to post. If you want to see my other choices, please click HERE.



This was taken off of the rock waterfall we have in our backyard. It, to me anyway, shouts FLUID, both in the liquid form and movement. SOOC, just added border in Photoshop. CC welcome.

~Fluidity~

I could watch these things all day...everything about them is fluid.....I added a frame but other than that this pic is ~sooc~
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Fluid Beings

From fluid we came, fluid we are, fluid we need and fluid we return to! Kind of gross I guess. Mostly I thought of the last time I lived in Cali I was in 5th grade and we disected a pigs eye. My partner was grossed out so I got to do it all myself. Needless to say there is a lot of fluid in eyes. CC welcome.
ISO 800, f 4.9 still working on perfecting the balance. Though I cant change the fstop my camera makes that auto I can change the ISO.

Fluid in Slow Motion

 

I was out and about looking for something that had to do with fluid and I happened to come across this waterfall a little ways out of town, I reduced my shutter speed to about 1/30 and got this really neat affect. Very happy with the way it turned out.

Smooth Movement

The duck in this photo displays fluid movement.

I was actually taking photos of the Falls for water (water= fluid) but the duck took off
from the side and flew into my path. I decided that was a better use of
fluid.

I did a lot to this photo in PS- well more than I normally do. There were some ugly sticks in the water that distracted from the duck and I didn't like how brown the water was so I changed those things. {CC}

ETA the Original

Swinging

My sweet girl was fluidly swinging to and fro all evening long...

I got several shots of my family that I'm in love with this evening. Tony's leaving Monday to head back to Iraq and we won't be together again until December, so documenting every moment is very important right now. If you'd like to see more of the pictures from tonight, you can check them out on my family blog. :)

This picture: f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 200

Literally!

(f-5.6, ISO1600, Exposure 6 seconds)
So- as simple as this picture may seem, it was a real stretch for me. I actually pulled out all of my limited photography knowledge to pull it off and I realize it's still not perfect but I'm kinda proud none the less.

I used a tripod set up in my bathroom to take pictures of the droplets on the window. I needed to do it with with no flash so that I could still see the neat bokeh of the tree behind it. Then I had to use manual focus to get the droplets instead of the tree. Finally, I had to take the shot without shaking the camera since I couldn't find my remote. Wheew! Somehow I pulled it off, at least to some degree anyway. This was my original plan for the challenge- fluid motion of the swing. It was another tough one for me since I wanted to get the flowers of the tree and the lighting was terrible especially with a moving target. I still played around with it a bit on photoshop to give it a pinkish-purpleish hugh- just for fun. Sorry- I had to share!

PLEASE CC

Fluid: From Heaven

(f5.6, 1/30, iso1600)

We had fun listening to fluid falling from heaven on to our umbrellas today.

Fluid: A Necessity

Fluid is good.
...Especially for a fish...

Don't have any photo editing software yet, so I just used the Windows photo thing I had on my computer to change the color settings a bit. Tried to really make that fish pop.

Challenge : FLUID

Today's challenge word is Fluid!

I can't wait to see what this word means to you.

Be creative, let loose, see where this takes you, but most of all....HAVE FUN!

Happy snapping.

Be sure to post your entry by Thursday at midnight!