Challenge: Sunlight

[Jonathan Long]

Here is another of the Challenge series:

Take a picture that uses sunlight creatively. Your picture must use sunlight as it's main source of illumination, although you can use reflectors or fill flash to enhance the image.

Rules:

No Archive shots, even if you posted to the original thread please go shoot a new picture.

The idead behind the challenges is to motivate photographers to go shoot new pictures that meet the criteria for the challenge. It's like you're a working professional photographer that has a client that needs a specific picture. You have to create an image for them to use.

Jon

[Dave McClung]

My grandson, Vincent, took this picture last evening.

[Jonathan Long]

Dave,

How old is Vincent?

Jon

[Judy Hamilton]

Took this one last week Jon...takes friends visiting to get me out
with my camera so Ya'll Come

This is a sunset on Point Loma

Judy

[Jonathan Long]

Judy,

As always... nice picture! Maybe we should scrap toing to Utah and just come to San Diego! I haven't been there since the early 80's... I think I'm due!

Of course maybe I can setup a seperate trip there....

Jon

[Judy Hamilton]

San Diego does not compare to the natural wonders of Utah Canyons and Parks and BLM areas

however I am up for visitors...if you are the least bit serious, this is an expensive place to room and board
and I can handle man and wife..or gal friend and another person
however even that did not work well as Dana snored, Tyler was sleeping on the blow up mattress
so I slept some in my bed and a little in my easy chair

anyway this is a lovely city, with flowers and ships and coasts and beaches..I still miss
the Utah hikes and the ooh aah
moments

Judy

[Dana Grant]

San Diego does not compare to the natural wonders of Utah Canyons and Parks and BLM areas

however I am up for visitors...if you are the least bit serious, this is an expensive place to room and board
and I can handle man and wife..or gal friend and another person
however even that did not work well as Dana snored, Tyler was sleeping on the blow up mattress
so I slept some in my bed and a little in my easy chair

anyway this is a lovely city, with flowers and ships and coasts and beaches..I still miss
the Utah hikes and the ooh aah
moments

Judy

You know, Judy, I love you, too.

Your friend,
The Moose.

:)

[Judy Hamilton]

Dana
You snore like a lady
now the sleep talking...

Judy

[Debi Peck]

I followed the challenge directly. This picture was taken mere minutes ago, so it wasn't an archived shot. Sunlight was my main (actually, only) source of light. Granted, I used a couple of reflectors, but still, light only from the sun. :smilies0041:

(Full moon tonight with light cloud cover)

[Susan Unger]

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This was taken in Bermuda 11 days ago.

[Dana Grant]

Great Job, Susan!!!

[Cindi Hammons]

These were taken last week at Ormond Bch, FL. Sorry, Jon, I'm not going to go back to the beach to grab these pictures again...although I would certainly LOVE to do so! :)

The first two images were taken around 6:00-6:45 AM while sitting on the beach waiting for the sun to pop over the horizon. Did I mention that I saw a dolphin feeding, but could not get a good shot. He was fast and all over the place. Oh well.

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Taken around 6:40 as we were loading the car and getting ready to head home.

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I wish I had a graduated filter for the sun, but overall I was satisfied.

[Cindi Hammons]

In Ohio, we have a tradition of spelling out O-H-I-O with our arms and bodies. It's just a little shout-out to Ohio State and people get their picture taken all over the world spelling out OHIO. Well, we couldn't do that because we were in a deserted Civil War fort and there were only 4 of us, so Elizabeth came up with an alternate idea. The Native American word for "Ohio" is actually "Oyo." So this is what we did. We used the strong 11:00 AM sun to silhouette the girls.

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Looking into the Florida "jungle," I was fascinated to see how the sun illuminated the fan of the palmetto. It was just beautiful. If I had to take the image again, I would try to remove some of the other sticks and branches from out in front of the palmetto plant as they are very distracting. I still love the lighting even with the distractions. :)

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[Cindi Hammons]

Okay, this has nothing to do with the challenge, but I challenged myself (after my post just prior to this one) to do a little Photoshop voodoo. Since we didn't have enough people to do the O-H-I-O photo, I had two of the girls pose for each half of the image, so I could afix them together at a later time. So, here is my result. Two sets of twins? Maybe? :smilies1722:

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[Kenda Armstrong]

I took this fifteen minutes ago for another forum's cloud challenge, but it fits the category of natural sunlight too. :o
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4743081089_c2817db50a.jpg

This one was last week with sunlight.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1073/4734438220_0b55416eac.jpg

One more from last week....
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1081/4732528527_fc076f8648.jpg

[Susan Unger]

Here are some more pictures from my cruise to Bermuda and the Bahamas. I like the orange glow of the sunset.
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These were taken as the sun got lower in the horizon.
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This last one was taken from the ship on the way to Bermuda.
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[Susan Unger]

Again, I love the orange background.
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This is after our tour in the bay was over and we were back at the cruise ship. I love the lavendar colors in this picture.
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