jeeps_and_paint.JPG
by ourwebstop

Comment:
1 4-month old Aussie
1 4oz. sample vial of red paint
1 full box of Ding Dongs

Mix well.

He seemed quite pleased with himself -- expressing his artistic side I think.

Message edited by author 2005-08-01 17:10:54.

Reaching for the disc
by ourwebstop

Comment:
thanks for all the comments!

To answer the questions:

1. Yes... he did catch it!
2. I had two photo sessions of about 15-20 tosses each. I took 5-6 shots of each toss. I have a lot of outtakes that show frisbee and grass, dog and grass, and just grass. I got nothing useful out of the second session. the shots were set up by tossing the frisbee near the bottom of an 8' ladder with the camera aimed as close to straight down as possible -- I was trying to get a nice circle from the frisbee rather than an oval.
3. The photo wasn't edited -- levels, saturation, curves, USM. I spent a lot of time trying to un-blow the blown white areas. When the dog is jet-black with bright white highlights -- not to mention the white frisbee, it's kinda tricky.
4. I didn't give him a bone for catching it -- I gave him another toss instead (which he appreciates more than a bone anyway! He pretty much lives to play frisbee)

Regarding the frisbee not being stopped -- I actually experimented with shutter speeds to try and get a little spin-motion of the printing on the frisbee. So the fact that the frisbee is not stopped clearly was an "artistic choice" on my part. I appreciate the comment, but I'm happy with the motion there.

Thanks for all the positive comments!

halo
by aplomb76

Comment:
OK... how'd you do that?

Two Moons
by hvaux

Comment:
I wish I could tell better what I'm looking at here. It's for me to judge a photo when I can't tell what I'm seeing.

Bullseye
by Nitin

Comment:
A pretty good shot I think. I like the idea of capturing the bullseye dart as it hits the target. I think that it's hard to see the dart in this shot though. If you could have caught the timing such that the dart was in flight for half the exposure, and stuck still for the other half so it would show up more clearly on the board it might have been easier to see and still had the blur of motion.

Lasso
by BAMartin

Comment:
Very nice shot. I like the way the dust behind the rider subdues the contrast of the background and really makes the subject stand out. Good circle there too! 7

Unwind
by nico_blue

Comment:
Very nice. I'm not sure if a spiral counts as a circle, but I'm going to pretend it does (afterall, it's only perspective that makes this not look totally circular, right?) 9

Waiting for a night bus
by mmusicante

Comment:
Amazing perspective with a nice lighting/color contrast between the inside and the outside. I wish the reflection of the flourscent lights wasn't there outside the "tube" 7

Sparkler
by DefyTime

Comment:
I think this is the best of the sparklers -- for one thing, the circle is *round* I'm wondering though, is the gal there spinning a sparkler on a string or something?

Buttons & Thread
by jjmcc

Comment:
I'm feeling the thread is distracting me from the buttons. It would be easier for me to look at if it was either a picture of the thread with buttons in the background, or a clear picture of the buttons. Sorry.. I find the composition confusing. 4