Photography Competition #5: Textures

Hello everyone!

This months subject: Textures

Rules: This is strictly a photography contest! No photochopping, but contrast, brightness, levels and other minor touch-ups (healing tool will be allowed for film and print scans). Please avoid any text on the photograph, except at most a copyright statement, remember distractions like text can take away from the composition. Digital and film photography are both allowed. Only one submission per user will be allowed. Your entry needs to have an interesting texture of some sort in it.

Awards: 500 Points to the winner, and choice of next weeks competition topic. 100 points for the runner up (only will apply when competition reaches 5 submissions).

Length: Competition closes Monday, May 31st at 10:00 PM EST. Voting lasts five days after close of competition.

The winner needs to PM me the topic for the next competition (please try to think up topics while voting goes on, incase you win).

can we use stockphotos? or have we got to take them our selfs?

you have to take them yourself

thats me out with my cruddy olypus digital camera *blushes* lol

*shakes head* you can take amazing photographs with disposable camera's, so you'd better atleast try

yay!

how long has this been 'on the list?'

Here ya go... here's my entry..


Title : Dragon Scales

*lol -- I want that camera!

what lizard is that, axe?

It's a dragon... bearded that is

*lol -- good luck folks. I do believe Axe has set the standard for this competition! I need to get my hands on a nice hi res cam at work and see what I can come up with, but that definitely depicts the thought of this comp. Nice job AXE. (I was afraid you were going to post one of your reptiles. Hard to find better textures than that).

beautiful Axe!!!

Btw, for a size reference, that image is about a nickel-sized (a bit smaller than a 10p coin for those in the UK) piece of her side

She's just a young one

a little strong on the flash there axe but all and all a very great picture. the idea behind it deserves a 10 out 10 im gooing to have to borrow my brothers caera and go around for a wile see what i can come up with

Well, I didn't have much of a choice.. I don't have 500 bucks spare to get a macro speedlight to go around the end of the lens, so I was having to use built-in + the SB-50DX in bounce mode.... And in order to do that, they both need to be in manual mode. But, stopped at f/22, most of the brightness didn't show up.

How it turned out, on a properly calibrated monitor, is pretty much looks the way she does