Please vote for your favorite image from the "Straight from the Camera" assignment for the "People's Choice" award. The objective of this assignment was to help reinforce good discipline for setting up the camera and exposing and composing the scene such that we could post an image "straight from the camera" with no post-processing except resizing for the web.
To vote for an image, simply select the image title in the "poll" attached at the top of this thread, and click "submit vote." NOTE: You need to be logged in to see the voting options. Voting will end at midnight, Mountain Time (GMT-07:00) on Sunday, 1 November 2009.
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10155/JGD_1345%28800x532%29.jpg)
Straight from Kogaku
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10079/DSC_5230_Early_Morning_Sunrise.jpg)
Early Morning Sunrise
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/100_0506.jpg)
Orionid Sunrise
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/100_0522m.jpg)
Orionid Meteors?
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/IMG_0058.JPG)
Street Photography
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/Bild_037.jpg)
Street photography II
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10147/White_Butterfly_798x638.jpg)
White Butterfly
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10147/Yellow_Dog.jpg)
Yellow lab having fun in Lake Michigan
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/spooky2.JPG)
Spooky2
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10065/spooky1.JPG)
Spooky1
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10003/20091024_123100_web.jpg)
Vivid Red
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10003/20091024_131157_web.jpg)
Painting Fall
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/20091024_120908.JPG)
Fall Color
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10035/DSC_6283.jpg)
11 Mile Reservoir
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10035/DSC_6296.jpg)
Bodie & Rick
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10058/IMG_0097.jpg)
Pattern
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/Woodcarver_3378sm.jpg)
Woodcarver's Shop 1
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10187/Woodcarvers_Shop_3299sm.jpg)
Woodcarver's Shop 2
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10191/Typical_Vermont.jpg)
Typical Vermont
(http://spiritofphotography.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10191/Red_Barn.jpg)
Red Barn
Thank you to everyone that participated in the "Straight from the Camera" assignment. I found this to be a very useful exercise to emphasize the use of good exposure and composition techniques.
Viewers are encouraged to respond to this thread describing why you like a particular image, or think it was particularly successful at meeting the guidelines of the assignment.
Keith