The Best Photographer in the World 28th - 29th October 2006

This weekends subject is.......

Games, indoor or outdoor, sports, board or card 

From Sunday soccer, motorsports to close up's or macro shots of monopoly pieces or noughts and crosses and everything in between.

Good luck all !

oRGie..

Here are the rules as posted by Cedar..

Hopefully you have read the above message, this is what you need for the competition. These are your instructions for the competition.

You must stick to the instructions. If your picture looks like it has not been taken by following rules and you win, you will be asked for a RAW/JPEG original. The winner will be asked for a JPEG version of the file so we can check the time and date it was taken.

You have from Friday night/Saturday morning 00:00 until Sunday 23:59 (your local time) to take your photo and post it up. Your photo must be posted in this thread before Monday noon (12:00) (BST). No photo will be accepted if it is not on by this time.

At this time Cedar will make a poll available in a new thread. Anybody can vote, whether you have submitted a photo or not. You can only vote once per registered DCmag username You may also vote for yourself but I would hate to be the idiot that won off their own vote!

When the votes are counted I will ask the winner to supply me with a small original version so I can check the time and date on the properties. ALL SHOTS MUST BE TAKEN ON THAT WEEKEND FROM MIDNIGHT FRIDAY - MIDNIGHT SUNDAY (local time). This makes it fair as the winner may have a good pic he took 2 years ago, making his life easy for the following weekend.

I will then officially post the Winners name. They must then add their Winning title "The Best Photographer in the World 28th-29th October 2006 (Weekend date you win) and start a new thread called:

Weekend Competition: The Best Photographer in the world (4th-5th November 06)

and post your instructions. Your instructions can be anything, however easy or hard. Make your instructions fully clear.

Even though we may get all this done by Thursday 7pm, you can only start the comp in the given time. That makes it more interesting and fair.
I hope this is clear and I really hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend! Good luck!

To start of the proceedings, here's "Rats & Mice"

Canon 400D, Canon 18-55mm @ 31mm, Manual, f25, 1.0sec, 1st curtain flash (second curtain was rhubarb for this, although that was my intention) One layer added with high pass filter 10 ish %, blend mode soft light 70% opacity.  Flash caught the movement, the long exposure got the rats & mice stationary.

Here's mine

We all gathered at my sister's house today for lunch to celebrate my brother's retirement.  The kids were having fun.  Chasing Othello - my sister's pet dog.  Nevan grab a toy from Othello...here's the result...my entry to this weekend comp...unless I changed it before the comp ends

Tug O' War

Please disregard the chess shot, this is my entry, it wouldn't let me delete it, sorry

Here's mine for this week.

Glass solitaire set on a glass table - Nikon d50 with kit lens, 3+ close up lens and star burst filter. Camera flash & slave flash under table.

Jack

could be a russian game ?

can you figure it out or do you need a clue (do)?cheers martyn

The surgeons are still trying to remove the ball from my head.

Here's mine for this week

Here's mine for this week

Do not know what happened there?

Here's my entry for this week

Good luck all

My entry this weekend

Here's my entry for this weekend's - Elbow in the back. Good luck everyone.

Here's mine, bit of a struggle to think up what to do this time round