First of all, let me apologize for the delay – I’ve been going through an audit at work this week and it’s placed a lot of demands on my time!
I’m happy to announce that we had 85 photos submitted for our Summer challenge!! And without further ado, our winner was randomly chosen, using random.org:
List Randomizer
There were 85 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
- Serena Gedlaman – Daylight/Sunlight
- Stephanie Schan – Backlighting
- Agatha Wiebe – Leading Lines
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Cropping
- Serena Gedlaman – Light Graffiti
- Bev Beaudette – Cropping
- Agatha Wiebe – Front Lighting
- Agatha Wiebe – Balancing Elements
- Serena Gedlaman – Fast Shutter Speed
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Depth of Field
- Kristi Kennedy – Backgrounds
- Karen Young – Backlighting
- Stephanie Schan – Perspective
- Bev Beaudette – Side Lighting
- Kristi Kennedy – Fast Shutter Speed
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Symmetry & Balance
- Agatha Wiebe – Cropping
- Serena Gedlaman – Leading Lines
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Rule of Thirds
- Agatha Wiebe – Slow Shutter Speed
- Agatha Wiebe –Symmetry & Pattern
- Karen Young – Leading Lines
- Stephanie Schan – Symmetry & Patterns
- Serena Gedlaman – Depth Perception
- Agatha Wiebe – Depth of Field
- Serena Gedlaman – Rule of Thirds
- Kristi Kennedy – Bokeh
- Serena Gedlaman – Symmetry & Patterns
- Bev Beaudette – Framing
- Karen Young – Depth Perception
- Agatha Wiebe – Backgrounds
- Agatha Wiebe – Daylight/Sunlight
- Agatha Wiebe –Side Lighting
- Agatha Wiebe – Depth Perception
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Backlighting
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – ISO
- Stephanie Schan – Bokeh
- Serena Gedlaman – Backlighting
- Karen Young – Balancing Elements
- Kristi Kennedy – Framing
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Cropping
- Karen Young – Symmetry & Patterns
- Serena Gedlaman – Framing
- Stephanie Schan – Side Lighting
- Agatha Wiebe – Rule of Thirds
- Bev Beaudette – Leading Lines
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Framing
- Serena Gedlaman – Natural Light
- Serena Gedlaman – Perspective
- Serena Gedlaman – Slow Shutter Speed
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Daylight/Sunlight
- Kristi Kennedy – Depth Perception
- Agatha Wiebe – Natural/Available Light
- Serena Gedlaman – Side Lighting
- Bev Beaudette – Depth of Field
- Kristi Kennedy – Leading Lines
- Bev Beaudette – Perspective
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Framing
- Karen Young – Perspective
- Karen Young – Framing
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Perspective
- Serena Gedlaman – Front Lighting
- Bev Beaudette – Natural Lighting
- Bev Beaudette – Backgrounds
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Balancing Elements
- Agatha Wiebe – Light Graffiti
- Karen Young – Rule of Thirds
- Bev Beaudette – Depth Perception
- Stephanie Schan – Depth Perception
- Stephanie Schan – Rule of Thirds
- Agatha Wiebe – Framing
- Serena Gedlaman – Bokeh
- Donna Bowman-Woodall – Leading Lines
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Balancing Elements
- Kristi Kennedy – Backlighting
- Serena Gedlaman – Balancing Elements
- Stephanie Schan – Framing
- Kristi Kennedy – Backgrounds
- Agatha Wiebe – Perspective
- Agatha Wiebe – Backlighting
- Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Side Lighting
- Kristi Kennedy – Symmetry & Patterns
- Serena Gedlaman – ISO
- Serena Gedlaman – Cropping
- Agatha Wiebe – Bokeh
Timestamp: 2011-09-10 15:18:14 UTC
Congratulations, Serena! Your prize pack will be sent out to the address on your submission form!
Thanks to all who submitted their photos – I loved seeing them all! I will be back in a few days to discuss our next topic – Photo Organization!
Cheers,
Just a quick post – I have to get ready for a wedding!!
Here are the prizes that one of our lucky SummerFun participants will receive:
How’s that for some yummy eye candy?? Doesn’t it make you wish that you had submitted a photo now…? And if you have, aren’t you glad you did? 
I will be back in a few days to announce our lucky winner!
Cheers,
Last batch of photos to share with you for this assignmnent!
Agatha Wiebe, of ON, sent me a final photo, using her Canon EOS Rebel XSi, adding another ballot to her total for our draw:
Front Lighting. f/9, 1/400 sec., ISO 200
Thanks for playing along this month, Agatha!
And last but certainly not least, are these two gorgeous photos by Stephanie Schan, of ON, taken with her Canon 5DMKII:
Side Lighting. f/5, 1/80 sec., ISO 500
Depth Perception. f/5, 1/125 sec., ISO 125
That’s another two ballots for you, Stephanie!
Thanks to all of our participants this month – I hope you had fun, going through the older tutorials, refreshing your memories! I will randomly draw a winner in a few days – but tomorrow I will post photos of the prizes!
Cheers,
Our last batch of gallery photos comes from Serena Gedlaman, of AB. Serena used her Canon EOS Rebel T2i for these images:
Thanks for submitting, Serena – here’s another 9 ballots to add to your total for our draw!
Cheers,
Continuing on with the fantastic submissions, I have some images to share that Kristi Kennedy, of BC, took with her Canon EOS 10D:
Lovely! Thanks for your submissions, Kristi – you’ll receive 8 ballots for our draw!
Wow! I’m loving all the eye candy you are sending me!
This post, I’m going to share some photos from Karen Young, of NL, taken with her Pentax K-x camera:
Great job, Karen – that’s five ballots for our drawing for some great prizes!
Cheers,
Another round and I have photos from Donna Bowman-Woodall, of ON, taken with her Nikon D60! Again, please click on the thumbnails to view larger images.
Thanks, Donna, for your beautiful submissions! You now have 6 ballots for our big draw!
Cheers,
A flurry of last minute entries were received in the final few days! For simplicity’s sake, I will add a separate post in gallery format, for each person who submitted more than two or three photos in the last few days. Please click on the thumbnails to view larger images.
In this post, I want to share photos taken by Bev Beaudette, of ON, with her Canon EOS Rebel T1i.
Thanks for submitting your images, Bev – you’ve earned 9 ballots for our draw!
Cheers,
Sorry for the long delay in posting – I’ve had a deluge of submissions come in, but due to a death in the family, I haven’t had a chance to get around to uploading them.
I have nearly 40 images to share with you – all from just five individuals, three of whom have already sent in some submissions!! They’re doing a great job of increasing their chances of winning our awesome prizes!! 
Because of the number of photos, I will be posting thumbnails of each photo, with camera settings and tutorial used. Please click on the thumbnail to view image.
Here are submissions from Agatha Wiebe, of ON:
Framing:
Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/60 sec., ISO 400
Backlighting:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/250 sec., ISO 400
Depth Perception:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/13, 1/320 sec., ISO 200
Leading Lines:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/60 sec., ISO 400
Rule of Thirds:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/7.1, 1/200 sec., ISO 400
Bokeh:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/100 sec., ISO 400
Depth of Field:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/400 sec., ISO 200
Symmetry & Pattern:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/200 sec., ISO 800
Side Lighting:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/9, 1/160 sec., ISO 200
Cropping:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5, 1/640 sec., ISO 200
Slow Shutter Speed:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/15 sec., ISO 640
Natural/Available Light:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/125 sec., ISO 250
Daylight/Sunlight:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/160 sec., ISO 800
Perspective:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/4000 sec., ISO 640
Backgrounds:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/200 sec., ISO 400
Light Graffiti:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/22, 1.3 sec., ISO 800
Balancing Elements:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/7.1, 1/320 sec., ISO 200
Light Graffiti:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/9, 6 sec., ISO 800
Thanks for sharing, Agatha – you just earned 17 entries into our random draw!
Next up, we have more submissions from Kari-Lynn Bezooyen, of AB:
Daylight/Sunlight:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.8, 1/1250 sec., ISO 200
Lyrics from “The Picture” by Loudon Wainwright III
Backlighting:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/10, 1/60 sec., ISO 200
Backlighting:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/22, 1/250 sec., ISO 200
Sidelighting:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/8000 sec., ISO 200
Framing:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.2, 1/320 sec., ISO 200
Thanks for your submissions, Kari-Lynn – you’ve earned an additional 4 entries into our draw!
Stephanie Schan, of ON, sent in these submissions:
Framing:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/4, 1/10 sec., ISO 200
Backlighting:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/2500 sec., ISO 640
Rule of Thirds:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/800 sec., ISO 640
Perspective:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/6.3, 1/500 sec., ISO 100
Bokeh:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/5.6, 1/1000 sec., ISO 100
Symmetry & Patterns:
Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/800 sec., ISO 100
Thanks, Stephanie – you’ve just got yourself six entries into this month’s draw!
Karen Young, of NL, sent us a few more submissions, as well:
Symmetry & Patterns:
Taken with Pentax KX at f/8, 1/320 sec., ISO 200
Perspective
Taken with Pentax KX at f/3.5, 1/60 sec., ISO 200
And last but not least, Serena Gedlaman, of AB, sent in severalmore submissions:
Framing:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i, f/10, 1/200 sec., ISO 400
Symmetry & Patterns:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/160 sec., ISO 100
Leading Lines:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/4000 sec., ISO 800
Fast Shutter Speed:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/800 sec., ISO 100
Depth Perception:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/100 sec., ISO 100
Backlighting:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/5, 1/200 sec., ISO 100
Rule of Thirds:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/200 sec., ISO 100
Side Lighting:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4, 1/50 sec., ISO 100
Thanks for your submissions, Serena – you earned 8 more entries towards our draw!
There’s still time to get your summer photos into me – deadline is 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, Aug. 31st! Send your submission in now to be entered into the big draw!
Cheers!
Taken with Nikon D300s at f/6.3, 1/1250 sec., ISO 250
Are you enjoying your summer yet?
We have had a great summer so far, visiting some of the tourist attractions with friends who arrived at the beginning of the summer. And from the photos I’ve been receiving, some of you have been using your summer time to snap some photos!
Kari-Lynn Bezooyen, of AB, sent me a few photos – this one, using the Balancing Elements tutorial, epitomizes summer for me:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/3.2, 1/5000 sec., ISO 200
This one from Kari-Lynn uses the Rule of Thirds tutorial :
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.2, 1/1250 sec., ISO 250
A few more from Kari-Lynn, this one using the Perspective tutorial:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/180 sec., ISO 1000
And this one, using the ISO tutorial:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/1.8, 1/80 sec., ISO 1000
This last one from Kari-Lynn used the tutorial on Cropping:
Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/250 sec., ISO 200
Fantastic photos, Kari-Lynn! Thanks for sharing!
I also received a photo from Karen Young, of NL. She used the Framing tutorial to frame her subject, which was an iceberg!
Taken with Pentax Kx at f/14, 1/6000 sec., ISO 6400
Great shot – thanks, Karen!!
And our final submission to share today comes from Serena Gedlaman, of AB:
Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/400 sec., ISO 100
Serena used the Balancing Elements tutorial for her submission. Lovely photo – thanks for your submission, Serena!
Awesome! You will all receive ballots for each of the photos submitted for our big prize!
Now, to the rest of you… where are your summer photos to share?!
Cheers,
Taken with Nikon D300s at f/7.1, 1/160 sec., ISO 200
Ahhh, summer is finally here!!
And just like our kids, school’s out for us, too , here at the Hands On! Photography blog! We’ve completed this section of tutorials so for the summer, I’ve going to give you all a super easy assignment, with a chance to win a fabulous prize, as always!
We’ve covered a lot of ground since our first blog post and now’s the time to show me what you’ve learned! Here’s a list of tutorials, with links to each one:
May 2011: Balancing Elements
April 2011: Depth Perception
March 2011: Backgrounds
January/February 2011: Leading Lines
January/February 2011: Symmetry and Patterns
December 2010: Cropping
November 2010: Framing
October 2010: Perspective
September 2010: Rule of Thirds
August 2010: Natural/Available Light
July 2010: Artificial Light
June 2010: Daylight/Sunlight
May 2010: Backlighting
March/April 2010: Side Lighting
March/April 2010: Front Lighting
February 2010: Sunny 16 Rule
January 2010: Depth of Field
December 2009: Bokeh
November 2009: Light Graffiti
October 2009: ISO
October 2009: Slow Shutter Speeds
September 2009: Fast Shutter Speeds
Summer 2011 photography assignment:
Go out and capture your summer! Using ANY of the above tutorials, photograph bits and pieces of your summer this year and submit your photo to me. Please include the tutorial you used, as well as your camera information (make, model, aperture, shutter speed and ISO) in the comment section of the submission form.
Deadline: 11:59 pm EST, Aug 31st, 2011
And now for the fun part – the prize!! Because this is a summer-long project, I am going to combine the prizes for June, July AND August and draw ONE lucky winner!! You will receive one ballot for each TUTORIAL you use. So, the more tutorials you try, the more chances you have to win! That is to say that if you send me 10 photos, using the Dec 2009 tutorial on Bokeh, you will still only receive ONE ballot. But if you send me 3 photos, each using one of the tutorials from Dec 2010, Aug 2010 and Sept 2009, you will receive 3 ballots!! The prizes will be announced shortly!
As always, if you have any questions, please leave me a comment on this post, or email me at sue {AT} canadianscrapbooker {DOT} ca.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
1) Because the whole purpose of the tutorial is to get you to experiment with your camera, submitted photos must have been taken between July 18th and August 31st, 2011, inclusive. Photos that do not meet this criteria may be shared on the blog but will not be eligible for our contest.
2) Please send original-sized files – I will size them for our blog.
3) And PLEASE don’t forget to include your camera settings, including camera make and model, f/stop, aperture and ISO settings for your image in the Comments section of the submisson form! Submissions that do not include this info may not be posted on the blog or included in the prize drawing.
Please submit your photo, using only our submission form, for a chance to be entered into our draw to win an awesome prize. A randomly chosen entry will be drawn after the deadline. Please note – submissions that are not relative to the tutorial and/or do not abide by these rules will not be posted on the blog, or entered into the draw. Please click HERE to review the rules regarding this draw BEFORE submitting.
Happy Clicking – and enjoy your summer!
Sue has been behind a camera for more than 25 years, working professionally as a photographer for the last ten years. While she began the hobby of scrapbooking in 2000, as a complement to her photographer career, it soon grew into a rival passion! Sue loves to enlarge one of her favourite photos and make it the focal point of her page, using her supplies to bring the focus onto her photography. She has, in recent years, turned more to scrapbooking "moments" rather than "events", choosing to leave her children more insight into her point of view of their lives.
Sue has been married to her best friend, Gary, for over 10 years and has two children, Connor and Aili. She considers herself very fortunate to be so lucky to work not only for herself, but also to be involved with Canadian Scrapbooker - both of which combine her passion for scrapbooking and writing!
CONTACT SUE: sue@canadianscrapbooker.ca
