050_1st_dirt_soma_rear_web Greg Thomas Date: 16 Jul 2007 This is an image of my cyclocross bike's rear tire after it's first ride in the dirt out in the Nevada desert. Shot with Rebel XT and Canon 35mm
f/2 at f/4.5 ISO 100 1/640.

Cropped, adjusted contrast/brightness, and used Photoshop's Channel Mixer to convert to B&W.
1 Sabrina Armani Date: 16 Jul 2007 I took this photo with the young lady against a brick wall. I created this photos using a lensbaby 2.0. I like the contrast of the photo, and how her attitude and bright red hair stands out.
2 Sabrina Armani Date: 16 Jul 2007 I took this photo at a wedding. I shot this image using 24-85mm lense and the image was partly taken this way by accident due to the movements of the Ushers on the sides.The focus was the woman fixing one of the Ushers flowers. What I like about the photo is how the two side Ushers frame the subject really well. The outside Ushers movement and blur draws us into the subject.
3 Sabrina Armani Date: 16 Jul 2007 I took this photo at a party. I created this shot using a lensbaby 2.0. What I really like about this photo is how surreal it looks. The two front heads almost look like they are floating, while we only see the bodies of the people sitting farther back. It looks really surreal.
Aaron the blue drummer Kevin Kienlein Date: 16 Jul 2007 I am a recently recycled photographer, this incarnation is digital.
I use a Canon 300D and a Canon 30D wit various lens', PS Elements 2, 4 and PS-CS3.
All of the images were blurred 'in camera' and edited to the final product in either PS elements or Photoshop.
'Aaron the blue drummer' - another friend, and being he was playing theblues this 'fit'.
Bible and elephant Dennis Stein Date: 16 Jul 2007 Bible and Elephant, Kennebunk, Maine
Blurry Horizons Alex Conu Date: 16 Jul 2007 Taken using a home made tilt and shift lens built from a 80mm medium format lens and a piece of vacuum cleaner hose :-) The lens was mounted on a Canon EOS Digital Rebel.
Comice pears with matches Peter Ciccariello Date: 16 Jul 2007 "Comice pears with matches" was created using a pinhole lens. The back-end was a Nikon D80 Digital camera.
Cumberland Forest 1 Dennis Stein Date: 16 Jul 2007 Landscape- Cumberland Forest, Cumberland, Maine.
Djoyobisono_Daylily Harjono Djoyobisono Date: 16 Jul 2007
Djoyobisono_Mantids Harjono Djoyobisono Date: 16 Jul 2007
Djoyobisono_Orang-utan Harjono Djoyobisono Date: 16 Jul 2007
Elmo Tom Fritz Date: 16 Jul 2007 Next door to my studio lives a small Chihuahua named Elmo. Like many of his breed he fancies himself a vicious guard of his master
emilie Virginia Sventek Date: 16 Jul 2007 my niece, emilie, sent this image of herself at last year's san francisco art deco ball. it was a beautiful picture, but converting it to black and white seemed more appropriate to the period she and the car were emulating.

i isolated the various lights and highlights and blurred them to make them look reminiscent of foggy evenings in the city. one can imagine dashiel hammett and sam spade wandering around somewhere behind her in the streets of chinatown.
Enamel Bed Peter Gorwin Date: 16 Jul 2007 Enamel Bed, Julian California Workflow approximately the same as in the 2nd image.
Euphorbia Peter Gorwin Date: 16 Jul 2007 Shot with a Lensbaby mounted on a Nikon D100. Shot Raw, Manipulated first in CR at 16 bit.
Euphoribia. Converted to greyscale using Channel Mixer Adjustment layer. Cropped square paying homage to analog, and vignetted using 50% neutral gray, soft light blending mode layer. noise added, and some global sharpening. No local blurring or sharpening was used. Blurring was the result to the lens.
Gold Mine Barrel Peter Gorwin Date: 16 Jul 2007 Gold Mine Barrel, Julian California Shot with a Lensbaby mounted on a Nikon D100. Cropped using perspective
checked to correct for convergence. White Balance Color corrected. Burning and vignetting executed Through the use of 50% neutral gray soft light blending mode layer, and gradient tool set to approximately 10% to 15%.
Global sharpening. Noise added on 50% neutral gray soft light blending mode layer.
Gordie plays the blues Kevin Kienlein Date: 16 Jul 2007 I am a recently recycled photographer, this incarnation is digital.
I use a Canon 300D and a Canon 30D wit various lens', PS Elements 2, 4 and PS-CS3.

All of the images were blurred 'in camera' and edited to the final product in either PS elements or Photoshop.

'Gordie plays the blues' - a harmonica player friend of mine, when I made a B/W version it came to life.
Grizzly Zane Ott Date: 16 Jul 2007 This is an unretouched picture I shot of my golden retriever, Grizzly.
It was taken during a hike in the San Jacinto Mountains, in Riverside County, California.
(taken with a canon digital rebel, with a 17-40mm lens.)
Hamsun's Dream Peter Ciccariello Date: 16 Jul 2007 1. "Hamsun's Dream" was created using a homemade lens made from a piece of a plastic bottle. The back-end was a Nikon D80 Digital camera.
Home Vine Kort Kramer Date: 16 Jul 2007 Taken with an Olympus C808WZ in superzoom mode, this is passion vine tendril where a spider has set up residence. The out of focus object in the forground is a butterfly egg. The widezoom mode automatically creates a very shallow depth of field. Other postwork was done on a Mac in PhotoshopCS.
Home Vine 2 Kort Kramer Date: 16 Jul 2007 Taken with an Olympus C808WZ in superzoom mode, this is also passion vine tendril, this time with more loops. The out of focus object in the forground is a butterfly egg. The widezoom mode automatically creates a very shallow depth of field. Other postwork was done on a Mac in PhotoshopCS.
Jupiter Pelican Matthew Hyner Date: 16 Jul 2007 Folks always comment on how it must take great patience, and skill to capture great wildlife photos, this photo happened almost by magic. I figured I was in the neighborhood and would get a picture of the lighthouse in Jupiter, Florida during my lunch break. As I stepped out of the car and before I closed the door, with my 20D and 80-400mm OS lens in hand a wispy cloud crossed in front of the harsh afternoon sun helping cut down the harsh light. Just then as a pelican decided to land right in front of me. Quickly setting my exposure I captured this while resting the camera on the car door. At 350mm with the pelican being so close it was easy to isolate it from the lighthouse, and still keep the lighthouse recognizable.

I have taken some wonderful photos through the use of patience and skill, but have never found a substitute for being in the right place at the right time when magic happens.
little flyer Kort Kramer Date: 16 Jul 2007 Taken with an Olympus C808WZ in superzoom mode, we have here a very tiny moth, about a centimeter from wing tip to wing tip. The close subject and superzoom mode creates a very shallow depth of field. Other postwork was done on a Mac in PhotoshopCS.
Locomotion Bill Gerrard Date: 16 Jul 2007 Locomotion -- opposite of the others, I had my camera stationary and let the train create it's own motion blur while keeping the wooden boardwalk and plants tack sharp. 1/13 second exposure.
Look at me I can Dance Kevin Kienlein Date: 16 Jul 2007 I am a recently recycled photographer, this incarnation is digital.
I use a Canon 300D and a Canon 30D wit various lens', PS Elements 2, 4 and PS-CS3.

All of the images were blurred 'in camera' and edited to the final product in either PS elements or Photoshop

'Look at me I can Dance' - a young Scottish dancer performing at our ANAF club installation caught my attention and I preserved her moment of mastery.
mallaig Virginia Sventek Date: 16 Jul 2007 The road home back to glasgow from mallaig on the west coast of scotland wanders through woodlands growing amongst outcropings of granite covered in soft green moss.

i came upon this part of the wood early one morning when the sun was, unusually, shining. if you ever come to scotland, you must drive along this part of the coast.

the image was converted to black and white using the Alien Skin Exposure filter. I created a mask to isolate the highlights and used gaussian blur on those areas.

i was somewhat saddened to lose the sunlight, but gratified to see that what had appeared as sun, now looked like the fog in the presidio in san francisco when it comes steaming in through the golden gate.
Merry Go Round Bill Gerrard Date: 16 Jul 2007 Merry Go Round -- This was fun. I got to enjoy a ride while my son pushed me. I just sat back, focused on him and fired off a round of shots at 1/15 second.
Morning Daisies Geoffry Faulkner Date: 16 Jul 2007 This image of daisies was taken with a hand-held Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi using a Canon 50mm prime f/1.4 lens. F-stop was set at f/1.4, ISO at 100, and shutter speed at 1/1250 second. I took advantage of the low light in the morning to open up the aperture and create the blur. The RAW image was processed using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
P7050059 copy Sandy Paro Date: 16 Jul 2007
Picnic Table Richard Cooke Date: 16 Jul 2007 The "Picnic Table" photo was taken with a Holga last year at a July Fourth celebration down in Vista California.
Rain Peter Ciccariello Date: 16 Jul 2007 "Rain" was created using a pinhole lens. The back-end was a Nikon D80 Digital camera.
Sean on Swing Richard Cooke Date: 16 Jul 2007 Both the "Strawberry Stand" and "Sean on Swing" where taken with an old Bronica S2a with a custom designed rubber collar and a loupe for a lens that I cobbled together a few years ago. The Strawberry Stand is in our neighborhood and the photo of our son Sean was taken in the backyard.
Spinning Teacups Bill Gerrard Date: 16 Jul 2007 Spinning Teacups -- shot at Disneyland with a 1/15 second shutter speed. Panning with the teacups was a bit harder than expected because not only were they moving side to side, they were also moving toward and away from me.
Star Trails Tom Molone Date: 16 Jul 2007 Fifteen minute time exposure @ 2.8
Shot at the Grand Canyon Torroweap overlook.
The cloudy look is actually the Milky Way.
All stars rotate around the North Star which is
just outside the shot.
Strawberry Stand Richard Cooke Date: 16 Jul 2007 Both the "Strawberry Stand" and "Sean on Swing" where taken with an old Bronica S2a with a custom designed rubber collar and a loupe for a lens that I cobbled together a few years ago. The Strawberry Stand is in our neighborhood and the photo of our son Sean was taken in the backyard.
Tilted Panties Alex Conu Date: 16 Jul 2007 Taken using a home made tilt and shift lens built from a 80mm medium format lens and a piece of vacuum cleaner hose :-) The lens was mounted on a Canon EOS Digital Rebel.
Tuscan Summer C. David Tobie Date: 16 Jul 2007 This shot of the iconic grove of Tuscan Cypress trees is a favorite among clients for the fact that it distills the scene to the essential Tuscan elements as a painting would: rusty, rolling wheat fields, dark pointed Cypress trees, and a cloud filled sky, all drenched in the Tuscan sun. The original, sharply focussed, accurately colored image was uninspiring, but had potential. Unfortunately I did not have my LensBaby with me the day I shot this, so hours of masking, Gaussian and radial blurring, selective color adjustment, and other advanced Photoshop work were required to obtain the selective blur effects that would have come automatically in a LensBaby shot. Moral of the story: I now carry a LensBaby2 everywhere; its small, and when you need it, nothing else will do...
Willow Fog Bill Bellows Date: 16 Jul 2007 The attached photo was made earlier this year in Minnesota. I chose to blur a background using a morning fog. I awaited until almost mid morning when I thought the fog would give just the right background effect...then shot it with a Panasonic Lumix FZ20.
Zakim Bridge Joshua Trupin Date: 16 Jul 2007 I took this photo on a cold February day in Boston. I had just bought a Ukranian tilt-shift lens, and wanted to test it out. The Zakim Bridge across the Charles River seemed like the perfect subject. I gave the lens as much tilt as I could, and focused 2/3 of the way up the north-side support.

Taken with a Nikon D200 at ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/2500 sec with a Hartblei 35mm Super-Rotator, tilted about 8 degrees.
Zoe Dennis Stein Date: 16 Jul 2007 Zoe- Medford, Ma.
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