Challenge: Midway

Some taken with the Arax:

w/ Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/4 Flektogon



the rest w/ Carl Zeiss Jena 80mm f/2.8 Biometar





I'm not happy with the last one.. I'll post more later.

EDIT: I'm experiencing some weird colour-shifts when saving to JPEG in Photoshop. I'm not sure what's going on at the moment. These photos are appearing darker than they should be.

Now that I am more settled I should scan my slides, considering this WAS my challenge

Bumble-Bee Bop is my daughter's favorite ride

I'll have some B&W from the Rotaryfest rides back in a week or two as well

I never did make it to the Midway this year, but I was at Rotaryfest long enough for my wife to get her cotton candy. I managed to get a few shots during the short time we were there. All were taken with Nikon D80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens.

Scooter:


Candy Floss (AKA Cotton Candy):


Prizes:


These were really more snapshots than anything, as I really didn't have much time to really plan them out. They were all cropped for better framing, and slight exposure and brightness adjustments done in Adobe Lightroom.

Nando, Just wanted to say that I really like the photo of the teddy bear you posted.

Thanks.

Didn't have an evil tripod for the cliche long exposures so I did a cliche bokeh shot instead. This is the Zeiss 80mm f/2.8 Biometar.

Nando, I'm also a big fan of the teddy bear shot. I also like the first one you posted in that group.
Are those both straight scans?

I also spent a good bit of time looking at the Scooter shot of BJ's.

This last one of Nando's almost gives me that freaky dream feeling. I'm a bit undecided. I think I like it though.

I did do some post processing in 1 and 2. I darkened the sky in #1 and I added some vignetting in #2 to put emphasize the teddy bear a bit. I'm not sure if I did anything for #3 but if I did, it wasn't much. #4 is a straight scan.

Did it take me long enough?

I wasn't happy with the original scans I was getting from the slides but now I have a lot more information to play with.

I love the last shot Ken. The action part of the photo is dark, so it makes the "true" subject of the photo that dude in the back having a smoke. I love the redirection.

Thanks Mike, I liked it too but it never scanned right on my flatbed. I put it in a dedicated slide scanner at work and it came out much better.