Last week was SkillsUSA and some of the people from the Coeur d’Alene photo department went down to Boise, ID for the State SkillsUSA competition. Though no chapter members placed in the photo competition, my brother and I placed first in the promotional board contest and other chapter member Brittney Price placed third and got elected for state office! Even though none of us placed in photography we all had fun and really. We had to shoot a theme, urban decay and that was a little bit of a challenging topic to shoot but I had fun with it. After the competition my brother and I looked at the competition winners from DPChallenge’s challenge for Urban Decay and almost every single photo within the challenge was HDR. The winning photo (http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=839628) really got me. I was really wowed by it for sure. That is what got me inspired to try some HDR myself. I have never done it but my brother Scott has done it quite a bit and gave me a little tutorial. I used Photomatix and that was really easy and I really liked it. We had to turn in 6 final images from the hour shooting and 25 raw images. Here are my 6 finals and some others from SkillsUSA:
Now here are my HDR images, the first one is my first trial and the second one is my second trial. I really do not like the second one as much, It didn’t turn out nearly as well, but I figured I would post it. My inspiration for this project was Enzo Maisano, he doesn’t have a website but he was the challenge winner for the Urban Decay challenge on DPChallenge. Here they are:
Also here are some fun shots I did of Josh Monteith biking down town:
I usually try not to do buttshots but I like the buttshot for this photo mainly composition wise
And Here are the rest of the weeks shots:
Thanks for viewing,
-Steve
I really like #3. Lately I’ve really been liking simplicity in an image and #3 is just really simple… I like it
ON bike/skate shots, be careful with Butt shots- not exactly flattering especially when their pants are half down and the underwear is hanging out.
Liking the shopping cart shot a lot. Something about it really appeals to me- all the lines….
I love all of these photos SO much! I really like the shopping cart one, the very first one, and the one that looks like a barbed wire circle thing by the fence? I don’t know, but it’s great. I love your variety of colors and the simplicity in many of the pictures. You are a fricken awesome photographer!
I like all of them but I really like the last five. I don’t really know why, but for some reason those pictures really catch my eye.
You took really great pictures all together, but my favorite were the last five. They were somehow more interesting than the others. I think the back and white and the water shadows on the last five were my favorite.