MPC #55: Fire (9/21 - 10/4)

**outabounds** · 09-21-2010, 09:51 PM

Contest dates are from today (Sept 21) through Oct 4.

Theme is Fire. Find something burning, set something on fire... just don't blind yourself staring at the sun.

RULES:
1. Photos must be taken within the time period of the contest.
2. You may submit 3 photos during the competition.
3. The contest moderator will choose 5 photos to be voted on.
4. The winner will get a happy feeling in his/her pants. (That is a rule by the way, not an option.)
5. In the event of a tie, the contest moderator will have the deciding vote.
6. Winner will be the contest starter/moderator for the next comp.
7. The winner has 3 days to start a new contest or 2nd place becomes the new winner.

Past Themes
[ame="http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199285"]MPC #54 Wheels[/ame]
[ame="http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198370"]MPC #53 Small Sensors[/ame]
[ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2931800"]MPC #52 Blur[/ame]
MPC #51 Found Faces
MPC #50 Portraits
MPC #49 Panoramic
[ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190628"] MPC #48 Light & Shadow[/ame]
MPC #47 Timing
MPC #46 Coffee & Beer
MPC #45 Community
MPC #44 Potential
MPC #43 Solitude
MPC #42 Holidays
MPC #41 Ominous
MPC #40 Imbalance
MPC #39 Transition
MPC #38 Unsightly
MPC #37 Self Portrait
MPC #36 Music
MPC #35 Summer
[ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161455"]MPC #34 Passion[/ame]
MPC #33 Home
MPC #32 Electricity
MPC #31 Bridges
MPC #30 Old & New
MPC #29 BW
MPC #28 Winter
MPC #27 HDR
MPC #26 Shadows
MPC #25 Circles
MPC #24 Bars
MPC #23 People
MPC #22 Architecture
MPC #21 Wild Beasts
MPC #20 Water
MPC #19 Bulb
MPC #18 Celebration
MPC #17 Sunrise & Sunset
MPC #16 Out of Place
MPC #15 Altered
MPC #14 Angles
MPC #13 Pain & Suffering
MPC #12 Unusual Perspective
MPC #11 Depth
MPC #10 Contrast
MPC #9 Festive
MPC #8 Reflection
MPC #7 Leading Lines
MPC #6 Minimal
MPC #5 Abandoned
MPC #4 Perspective
MPC #3 Airborne
MPC #2 Straylight
MPC #1 Motion [/

**outabounds** · 09-21-2010, 09:52 PM

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**smmokan** · 09-21-2010, 10:24 PM

Boooo. I liked "Reflection" better, especially with the leaves changing. Fire is pretty lame, all the entries are going to look similar.

**kidwoo** · 09-21-2010, 10:49 PM

Fire is pretty lame, all the entries are going to look similar.

Not really.

Does this

Look like this?

or this?

That took me like 5 seconds

**outabounds** · 09-21-2010, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by smmokan

Boooo. I liked "Reflection" better, especially with the leaves changing. Fire is pretty lame, all the entries are going to look similar.

Leaves burn and fire reflects. Get a match.

**pointedem** · 09-21-2010, 11:57 PM

taken 9/19 not eligible. Fire in Herriman, UT. I had my 400 set up on this place as I watched the light behind the ridge slowly get brighter. The house looked to be well over 5k sq feet... prob closer to 10k... I was convinced I was going to watch this place get torched. Pretty scary and exhilarating at the same time.

**japollner** · 09-22-2010, 12:27 AM

This spot reserved.

**Lonnie** · 09-22-2010, 07:11 AM

Ah, dude, you didn't have to change it! I was just pointing out we'd done that before. In fact, I didn't get to enter for that one (cause I started it), so I was kinda looking forward to it. Maybe, I'm just tweaked case this one is tuffer, which isn't a bad thing....

**nihiles** · 09-22-2010, 07:43 AM

man i had my first backyard fire last night and there was some chemical or paint or something on some of the wood i threw in and it was making these excellent green flames. wish i had known the new MPC was up and was fire i would have put down my beer and gotten my camera instead of sitting there huffin the fumes...

**Shepherd Wong** · 09-23-2010, 01:53 PM

Not for the comp but a non-fire fire pick from last week.

**Lonnie** · 09-23-2010, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Shepherd Wong

Not for the comp but a non-fire fire pick from last week.

^^ regardless, ALL HAIL the return of the GREAT Shepherd Wong, the original king of the MPC's!

**wendigo** · 09-23-2010, 09:03 PM

**smmokan** · 09-24-2010, 09:39 AM

Entry #1, peppers from our next door neighbor's garden:

**bossass** · 09-24-2010, 03:27 PM

Not eligible. From a couple weeks ago.

**Tap** · 09-24-2010, 04:29 PM

anyone who posts a pic of their butthole and titles it "Ring of Fire" should be disqualified.

**kidwoo** · 09-25-2010, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Tap

anyone who posts a pic of their butthole and titles it "Ring of Fire" should be disqualified.

What do you think I need a wide angle lens for?

**uglymoney** · 09-25-2010, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by smmokan

Entry #1, peppers from our next door neighbor's garden:

Nice one. I like how you placed those shadows.

**smmokan** · 09-25-2010, 08:26 PM

Entry #2: Changing underbrush in Indian Peaks Wilderness, shot today:

**Tuckerman** · 09-28-2010, 07:11 AM

Fire side nap.

**uglymoney** · 09-28-2010, 01:44 PM

Not eligible, taken before contest. I like this picture save for how incredibly soft it is. The nifty fifty was on a tripod and I focused this manually the best I could so I think it was focused on our baby but at 1.8 I just can't figure out how to make that lens work.

**4-TEEF'S Ghost** · 09-28-2010, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by uglymoney

The nifty fifty was on a tripod and I focused this manually the best I could so I think it was focused on our baby but at 1.8 I just can't figure out how to make that lens work.

Shoot it at 2.0 or 2.8. There are very few lenses that are "sharp" wide open.

But for this shot motion blur may be a bigger prob. If you're below a 60/sec gotta be really careful with subject movement and even cam shake from pressing the shutter.

**Rockband** · 09-28-2010, 06:21 PM

**uglymoney** · 09-28-2010, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by 4-TEEF'S Ghost

Shoot it at 2.0 or 2.8. There are very few lenses that are "sharp" wide open.

But for this shot motion blur may be a bigger prob. If you're below a 60/sec gotta be really careful with subject movement and even cam shake from pressing the shutter.

Thanks for the advice and sorry for the thread hijack.

1/50th on this shot at ISO 3200 (where the T2i still takes pictures good enough for the web) and yes there probably was a little subject movement and cam shake, but still, I think it should be sharper. The Tamron 17-50 sharpens up above 3.0 (really good at like 3.2) but it is still reasonably sharp at 2.8 especially above 25mm and of course my 70-200 F4 is perfect at f4 but that is comparing apples to oranges I suppose. If I have to go to 2.8 to make this lens work I wasted my money but I'll play around with stuff around F2 and I have a new remote control that I can use to control cam shake. The one and only good picture I have taken with this lens was at f8 - and it is in fact very impressive and sharp as hell, but that's not what I bought the lens for so I'll play with it some more and start planning for a better, faster prime.