Choose for each Category:

Fave Engagement
Fave Wedding
Fave Portrait
Fave Personal/Other
Fave Nekky Avatar of You...

I posted a similar one last year and loved what everyone posted so here goes!

I still have to find my fave e session pic, so I will post tomorrow

Happy New Year!

Fave wedding image:


Fave e-session image:


Fave portrait image from a wedding:


Fave other: ...just because of what it took to get them to agree to do the shot!



LEAST Favorite Shot of 2007...ummmm hello?!?!?!?!

My favorite images...

LOL! Last one is hilarious Garrett!

Wow. I am not quite sure if I can do this

Fav Engagement.... I don't shoot engagements... so I am posting my fav birth image...



Wedding (most recent fav)



Portrait. This will be the hardest for me I think



Personal... I have two. One that I took, and one that was taken of us

My favorite people in the world...



My favorite picture of Nathan and I, ever! (By Jessica Claire... of course )

Favorite wedding image:


Favorite portrait:


Favorite engagement:


Favorite other:
copyright News & Observer

Favorite nekky avi (What? I'm naked under there...)

You all posted shots that were my favorites of yours too!

Garrett - I remember them all, but that first shot is so dang cool.

Kari - I don't think I have seen your pics, but I'm lovin' that lift shot - so different!

Amber - that bath shot is just amazing - it's my favorite all time picture of yours.

Shane - You look hot in that costume! LOVE that B&W

Here are a few of my faves. I had two bridal faves.

WOW!!! There are some really stunning images here. Excellent work everyone. I will try to add mine this evening...

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Great images everyone. This was a fun year.

Here are mine.

Engagment


Wedding


Portrait - (Yes- this is from a bridal portrait session- so It's a portrait )



Other- Personal
My poor little girl after too much Bar-b-que

Love it - is the light on the left a strobe? I love to hear more about the lighting.

-TM

Fave Engagement



Fave Wedding




Fave Portrait




Fave Personal/Other



Fave Nekky Avatar of You...

Coming soon...

No strobe. Just a lot of natural light coming in from the left.

Wow, awesome images everyone! Can't wait to see more.

Garret, you have to share your workout routine from 2006 with me stud man! Or was that all photoshop?

I just want to say that I love this Thread for the following reasons:

a. there is no fighting
b. there are none offended
c. there ARE great pictures
d. there IS support of each other
e. there is productivity

I'll be posting with our images later.

I love you JOY!!!

awesome images everyone!!!! I'm not sure mine measure up (or if I can even narrow them down ) But I'm off to go try, hope to post mine soon

LOL, Neil!

My routine is pretty basic and my diet is too. It involves the five basic food groups:
1. Chips
2. Salsa
3. Guacamole
and for dessert
4. Dark Chocolate
and for a snack
5. Peanuts or peanut M&Ms

That's all. No photoshop necessary, but I do pay attention to the lighting.

OK....so it's taken me over a year to post any pics. Here is to a braver Brady in '07.

Fave Engagement
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Fave Wedding
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Fave Portrait
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Fave Personal (my nephew)
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Garrett,

You forgot lots of ketchup!

http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index...ost&id=9292

Love the light! teach us how!



http://erikdungan.bigfolioblog.com/product...d/dunes_oct.jpg
Eric, are you combining images? This is fantastic! Tell us how you did it!

happy new year everyone!

joy - what a GREAT idea for a post!

G$ - how did you EVER get them in that swamp - i would have freaked out! so impressive. i absolutely love your fav. wedding image - that shot is just timeless photojournalism with so much going on...love it!

amber! love that one of nathan with the kids! oh - and the light on the wedding image is so stunning...

brady! post more in 07! i love the skies in your fav wedding image...wow.

chris - the wheat in the field - to die for!
erik - the first shot with the light is so layered - love it!!!

i'll be sure to share later!

Erik, that's the best wedding detail shot I've seen all last year for sure. beautiful image.

Wow, these pictures are all so nice! And good to see you posting, Brady! That portrait is my favorite of yours too!


Here are a few of my favorite:

Wedding:



Portrait:



Personal:



okay, just kidding! I don't have a favorite personal.

Joy - thanks for getting this started! Great thread, I LOVE when we talk photography!

Here's a few of mine. Still working on a nekky photo, but I am pretty sure no one will want to see it.

Favorite wedding:



Favorite engagement:



Favorite portrait:



Other - from the Joe Bussink workshop:

Ohmygosh Dana - I think I'm going to have to make a run to Krispy Kreme.

orangecat - that baby's stare is fantastic in that portrait!

ok- here are some of my favs...it made me realize that you love photos for so many different reasons - so i don't really know WHY i picked these...i just did

fav wedding image

fav engagement

fav portrait

fav other image (got this one at our friend aaron's wedding...love that its our close friend)

wow...this is a hard one-

Here are a few of my faves...couldn't pick just one for wedding or portrait

2 wedding ones:



Fave portrait:



Fave e-session


Fave other:

Dana....all three of your photos are tasty....and so familiar looking! lol

Jenna....the umbrella shot is so cool. Very nice...

More - MORE!! These are so great.

Jenna - LOVE that shot with the pink umbrella.

Sophia - LOVE the ballet dancer.

Brady - The clouds in that one shot is AWESOME.

Thanks Jill!

Thanks! I used a large soft box up very close on my left (subjects right). I had a reflector at a 45 degree angle on my right (subjects left). I had some back lights coming from each corner about even with the back edges of the back drops pointing at the back of the subject measuring about 1 stop less in light than the main (I think...). The funn thing was I started out this way on this shoot... and when I looked at my camera screen, I thought the reflector wasn't enough light, so I took it down and added a fill light instead. After I loaded them on the computer, I thought this was much better, and the fill light was too flat..... by the way the cute little guy is my son!



Every one has such great images.... I have a lot of work to do....

Well I guess I will play too but I can't hold a candle to most of you! Beautiful work everyone!!

Favorite Wedding:
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Favorite Portrait:
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Favorite E-Session:
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Favorite Other: (last year at WPPI...my hot wife! heh)
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There are so many great images in this thread that there are just too many to mention. But Jason, that cathedral shot makes me want to stand and sing the Hallelujah Chorus! Awesome.

Joy-- AWESOME thread. Thanks for kicking it into gear. I love it when the mutual admiration society gets together to share/learn/teach/enjoy.

G$: Dad's reflection in the mirror totally makes that wedding shot. I love the "observing the observer" effect. Something about watching him watch his daughter in a playful moment seals it for me. As for the engagement shot, I said it when you posted it the first time around and I'll said it again...WOW! Nuff said. You earned your Peanut M&M's that day.

Amber: That bathtub shot is nothing short of perfection. And while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, one of these days I plan on bypassing "imitation" and leapfrogging straight to "blatant ripoff." Thanks for sharing this one.

Shane: That limo shot totally rocks.

Chris: That portrait? Holy cow! That could be one of the most beautiful images I've seen in a long time.

Brady: Same goes to you for the sky/billowing veil shot.

Jenna: That umbrella shot should be on a greeting card...or in a magazine...or on a freakin' billboard!

So, here are mine...in no particular order.

--J.


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Favorite Wedding
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Favorite Wedding Portrait
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Favorite Non-Wedding Portrait (our babysitter's band for their CD cover )
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Favorite Personal
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Wow! Some absolutely incredible shots here. Definitely feeling

Jenna - love the umbrella
Dana - great dancing shot
Jason - how did you do that cathedral shot???

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fav engagement:
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fav bridal:
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fav portrait:
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fav other:
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Ditto!

Jenna...

That umbrella shot makes me SO happy.

Jenna, thanks, and LOVE LOVE LOVE all of your shots you posted.

Sofia....Same goes for yours LOVE those!

G$...Dude, you never fail to impress, and I love that about your work.

Jeff, thanks man, that means alot bud. I owe most of that shot to KK though, as it was one of her brides to be. hehe.

Thanks Garrett! I was really happy with that one - it is one of the Churches you can "feel" you are in the presence of Go-.

Regina - I shot that with the Canon 16-35mm lens and the 5D with a little post processing to bring in some saturation. Other than that it is just a beautiful Church! Hallelujah!

boy OH boy - I have to get in on this thread!

...images coming soon...

Amber, your images are awesome! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Mom and baby in the tub with bubbles!!! How precious is that???!!!!

Rock on, girl!
Claire

Favorite wedding:




Sweet Cathedral shot Jason. Do you recall how you set that one up?

There really wans't much to it. A wide angle lens on my 5D (16MM) and available light - I bracketed (a bunch of exposures) to make sure I had the perfect exposure. It really is an amazing Church that just finished a mulit-million dollar renovation.

You forgot Ketchup! ;-)

Hey anne... you don't get off that easy. Post yours...

Hmmm...our OSP-MC shots are creeping back onto the forums! yay!!!!

Uh, I didn't post those...

Matt????? Are the Russians back?

Shane,
This is the issue with the database which should fix itself when the database runs out of pointers from old posts to their associated photos. So if post #1000 now has either new photos or none at all the database would associate the old photo with the new (back from the no-backup loss) post number. At least that is how I interpreted Matt's explanation.

Hope this helps,

May we see each other through grace filled eyes,
Mike

The OSP universe is folding back onto itself!

Everyones are so stinkin' good! Here's mine.

Bridal


Engagement


Wedding


Portrait


Other


What a fun year, I am learning so much through all of you.