"Challenge Community Gallery"
Hello & Welcome to Bill Pador's Weekly Challenge Group Gallery. This is a community of seasoned photographers & artists scattered across the globe who meet a photographic challenge on a weekly basis after being given a 'Word or Theme' to follow and Interpret in an artistic fashion using photography to fill the requirements. The results of those interpretations will be showcased in this gallery every week to be critiqued & evaluated by other members, photographers & guests and enjoyed by all.
Thank You for taking the time to stop by this interesting world of photography, MY World & I Love Every Minute of it. . I hope you enjoy your visit!
~Bill Pador~
UPDATE: APRIL '09 - Business is booming so I no longer have the time to participate in this group so for now so there will be no further updates to this gallery, if time allows in the future I will begin to post more challenge shots. Thank You for your understanding ~Bill~
"Looking Up To The Heavens"
The Looking Up Challenge...02/16/09
The Challenge: Show us your interpretation of "Looking Up."
The Participants: Kre8ive, John (300m), The Curious Camel, Karina, Creative Deviance, Lady Kate, Johnloguk, MSpencer, Trevlan, FotoEffects, Hillary, and myself.
The Result: As soon as the theme of Looking Up came to light I knew exactly what I wanted to use for this. Since I was very busy this week with client shoots and spending countless hours in the digital dark room I chose to use this shot that I felt deserved to be viewed because of it's bold look. This church was processed as a single frame HDR, using Photomatix to process the original image, then tone mapped. It was then brought into CS3 where I began to Dodge & Burn certain areas to bring out the contrast, boost color & adjust curves. Although I'm not a very religious man, the final piece gave me an over whelming feeling of looking up into the heavens with a peaceful relaxation and I especially enjoyed the lens flare glowing on the cross on the front of the building. Hope you all have a wonderful week and remember to stop along the way to look to the heavens to make all your dreams come true.
Best Regards,
~Bill Pador~
"Looking Up To The Heavens"
The Looking Up Challenge...02/16/09
The Challenge: Show us your interpretation of "Looking Up."
The Participants: Kre8ive, John (300m), The Curious Camel, Karina, Creative Deviance, Lady Kate, Johnloguk, MSpencer, Trevlan, FotoEffects, Hillary, and myself.
The Result: As soon as the theme of Looking Up came to light I knew exactly what I wanted to use for this. Since I was very busy this week with client shoots and spending countless hours in the digital dark room I chose to use this shot that I felt deserved to be viewed because of it's bold look. This church was processed as a single frame HDR, using Photomatix to process the original image, then tone mapped. It was then brought into CS3 where I began to Dodge & Burn certain areas to bring out the contrast, boost color & adjust curves. Although I'm not a very religious man, the final piece gave me an over whelming feeling of looking up into the heavens with a peaceful relaxation and I especially enjoyed the lens flare glowing on the cross on the front of the building. Hope you all have a wonderful week and remember to stop along the way to look to the heavens to make all your dreams come true.
Best Regards,
~Bill Pador~