Oct. Photo Comp. -- This Sporting Life

[wiskey]

2nd link wont give me a pic in opera

 

[Spymaster]

1st Entry

Champagne And Cricket

 

[Robster970]

That is a fuckin great photo well done Alef

Edited to add - only a day in and you just got my winning vote.

Now saved as my desktop wallpaper.

That is an absolute blinder Alef.

Same place, Battersea park but messing around with PS. Taken a couple of years ago - not an entry

More bowling

 

[Paul Russell]

2nd link wont give me a pic in opera

Are you talking about "another non-entry"?

Just tried it -- works fine for me in IE, Firefox, Opera

 

[wiskey]

i guess i must have screwed it up or something - works for me too now

 

[Firky]

hhmm, I live right next to a young boy's sports college.

i wonder how long it would take before i got a stoning, for hanging around with my camera...

 

[Onket]

hhmm, I live right next to a young boy's sports college.

i wonder how long it would take before i got a stoning, for hanging around with my camera...

LOL

 

[Spymaster]

2nd Entry

Sod The Cricket

 

[Spymaster]

3rd Entry

Armed And dangerous

 

[alef]

Champagne And Cricket

Very slick Having a black background on the web page adds a feeling of looking into a window. Also really like all the colours on the pitch and there being just a bit of exposure on the woman's face.

 

[Paul Russell]

Champagne And Cricket

Yeah, I really like that one as well. The pitch and people on the pitch look slightly overexposed but in a way that's really effective.

It's almost as if she's looking at a painting or a manipulated photo.

 

[Firky]

Fifa Football

 

[Paul Russell]

[weekend coming, desperate attempt to drum up some interest for the people that said, "oh know, we hate sport"]

Remember the title is "This Sporting Life". Be creative -- it doesn't have to be professionals playing sport. Or even amateurs playing sport.

not an entry again

 

[Firky]

[weekend coming, desperate attempt to drum up some interest for the people that said, "oh know, we hate sport"]

Remember the title is "This Sporting Life". Be creative -- it doesn't have to be professionals playing sport. Or even amateurs playing sport.

not an entry again

Was that aimed at me? It is a bit deliberatley ambiguous. I'll resubmit if you like.

 

[reallyoldhippy]

I find action shots with a compact digital quite difficult, but I think this one works well:

Under 14 Girls

(Auto levels and slightly cropped)

 

[Paul Russell]

Was that aimed at me? It is a bit deliberatley ambiguous. I'll resubmit if you like.

Ha ha. No that wasn't aimed at you -- I don't think your picture was even up when I started typing.

I was just worried that the theme wasn't going to get many entries from people who don't like sport (like me really) and was trying to drum up some interest.

Edit: your shot looks completely "on theme" to me!

 

[Random One]

My 1st Entry...not sure if it completely fits the title but here goes anyway:

Beer and Games

 

[alef]

My 1st Entry...not sure if it completely fits the title but here goes anyway:

Beer and Games

Fits for me. I'm thinking of it like the Orange questions in Trivial Pursuit: sports and leisure.

 

[mauvais]

My first entry (really not sure about this colour profile business, but it looks OK)

 

[Random One]

Fits for me. I'm thinking of it like the Orange questions in Trivial Pursuit: sports and leisure.

that is a good way of thinking about it

 

[Random One]

here is entry 2:

Rollerdance

 

[Tank Girl]

second entry

like a fish out of water

 

[Random One]

second entry

like a fish out of water

hehehehe that is cool

 

[Spymaster]

Very slick Having a black background on the web page adds a feeling of looking into a window. Also really like all the colours on the pitch and there being just a bit of exposure on the woman's face.

Thanks. Shame about the chaps head at the bottom though, I was going to crop it out but thought I'd lose too much of the woman.

 

[alef]

Thanks. Shame about the chaps head at the bottom though, I was going to crop it out but thought I'd lose too much of the woman.

Didn't pay any attention to it, my eye was drawn to the woman herself then the people on the pitch. It's a common issue in photography: the photographer spends ages worrying about a detail that no one else even notices! If anything the small head just gives the woman more context, if it was too perfect it might start to look like you'd photoshopped her in from another picture.

 

[wiskey]

My first entry (really not sure about this colour profile business, but it looks OK)

wow, how long did it take you to learn how to fly!

how'd you take that?

 

[mauvais]

wow, how long did it take you to learn how to fly!

how'd you take that?

From the top of the Eiffel Tower, straight down

 

[reallyoldhippy]

My second:

Not Formula One

Very slightly cropped. That just leaves the obligatory B&W one to do.

 

[Tank Girl]

bugger, I had a load of bumper cars!

mine were pretty crap though, so no great loss

 

[Firky]

My second:

Not Formula One

Very slightly cropped. That just leaves the obligatory B&W one to do.

i cant but help but shoot in B&W now (even though I have a dslr!), I just see it in 'black and white' and cos of that some of my colour photography is slacking