Portrait Competition

I realized today that it has been over a year since I last posted.
I will try to catch up on some old images, but I thought you might be interested in my portrait competition images.
My husband says that people might be interested in the behind the image story so I will try to do that more.
This first image was inspired by one pf my photo school teachers, Greg Heisler.  He used gels to change the colour of the light that illuminated the subject of his images.  I have not really done that before in my photography so, I thought I would try it out.  Here is the image I ended up with:

The second image I entered was one I have been thinking about taking for a long time and finally got the opportunity to this past weekend. 

I have been wanting to try out beauty dish photography for a few years and had not taken the time to set the lights up and just take the photo. I love the tiny shadow that the beauty dish creates under the nose and the shaping of the cheek and jaw line  So this is the image I came up with for our competition.

 I love this image in colour.  The image with half black and white and half colour goes a little bit against what I would normally do with portraiture.  Because it was a competition though, I wanted to do something a little extra with my post processing.  

I hope you enjoy.

Triptych

The March competition was "Triptych"

These are the images I entered.  Both were photographed this year.

Travel

Our first photo club competition of the year was "Travel".

Both of these images are from a few years ago.  The first is from a trip to Costa Rica and the second a trip to Hawaii.

Portfolio Competition

This month our photo club had a portfolio competition.  The purpose of this competition was to show the photographers versatility.  We had to enter three images.  It was an open theme competition so I decided to work on my own theme.  I chose to use secondary colours for my theme.

For my orange image, I chose to do a checkerboard pattern combining 8 different photos of orange roses.

My green image is a young girl dancing through the grass.

My purple image is a food image of levitating purple macarons and lavender.

Photojournalism Competition

In October, our photo club had their Photojournalism Competition.

These are the images I entered.  They are both from some years ago.
The photo of the bride was taken at a wedding that I did some second shooting for.  As she said her vows, she had to stop and take a breath to get control of her emotions.

While we were in Tanzania, filming music videos for a group of Maasai, these young people came along to see what we were up to.  I turned toward them and they started clapping.  So I snapped a photo.  My favourite part of this image is the little boy on the far right hiding behind another child curiously looking right at me.

Both of these images got the highest score.  Neither of them won trophies.