Here's mine for this month. I've had a lot of fun with this theme, and eventually settled on this shot:
Click the pic for the EXIF, and here it is anyway:
22/8/07 21:11:57
Canon 30D
Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm (getting it's first major outing - fun lens!!)
0.3sec
f4.0
ISO 100
RAW
Post processing as follows: Import RAW into Lightroom, export to Photoshop as a TIFF, levels, desaturate with layer mask, bit of burning, some gradients, add border, export as 12 quality jpeg.
The shot is my daughter ironing in a Guildford multi-storey car park. Firstly she never ever irons, so that is out of place from the start, and secondly the location is obviously a bit wierd as well. Had a ball with the composition, and tried many different angles. I particularly like the little arrow pointing at the iron which I [-]didn't realise I'd got until I looked at the pic on my PC[/-] totally planned into the composition from the start.
I also had worked with twin wireless flashes (thanks Gordon) but couldn't quite get the effect I was after, losing too much background detail placing the car park situation in context. I'll put one of those up on the not valid thread.
Anyone who asked was told we were shooting a feature on teenage life in Britain for an American teen magazine
Tobers

Click the pic for the EXIF, and here it is anyway:
22/8/07 21:11:57
Canon 30D
Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm (getting it's first major outing - fun lens!!)
0.3sec
f4.0
ISO 100
RAW
Post processing as follows: Import RAW into Lightroom, export to Photoshop as a TIFF, levels, desaturate with layer mask, bit of burning, some gradients, add border, export as 12 quality jpeg.
The shot is my daughter ironing in a Guildford multi-storey car park. Firstly she never ever irons, so that is out of place from the start, and secondly the location is obviously a bit wierd as well. Had a ball with the composition, and tried many different angles. I particularly like the little arrow pointing at the iron which I [-]didn't realise I'd got until I looked at the pic on my PC[/-] totally planned into the composition from the start.
I also had worked with twin wireless flashes (thanks Gordon) but couldn't quite get the effect I was after, losing too much background detail placing the car park situation in context. I'll put one of those up on the not valid thread.
Anyone who asked was told we were shooting a feature on teenage life in Britain for an American teen magazine
Tobers