Drops of Jupiter by Ibrahim Al Sayed

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Canon 5D Mark II + Canon 100mm Macro f/2.8 Lens + 2 soft boxes + white painted water tank + custom made water dropper.

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200), Aperture: f/16.0, ISO 200

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
RAW5 and Photoshop CS4

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
Waterdrops are one my favorite subjects especially when they are in motion, I believe it gives any photo some sort of life in it. I chose the title based on a song I really like "Drops of Jupiter" By "Train".

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
Well, there are a lot of photographs that include water drops and splashes, so i can't really say it's an original idea, but as I said I love those kinds of shots.

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
Photos of splashes are always funny, lol, and i think the funniest part yet tiring is the amount of mess caused during the process of getting the best shot. When the session is finished, looking at the studio setup is more than enough to crack the hell out of anyone.

Berry Princess by Charlotte Bibby

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Nikon D200 with 50mm lens and Hensel Porty 1200 lithium - one lamp from side with beauty reflector, one directly behind as hair-light (no attachment) and a gold reflector below the model

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
1/250th second, f/8, ISO 100

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Photoshop CS3 RAW editor and Photoshop CS3

Q4. Who is the model?
My eight year old sister, Erin (it was only a bit of fun! I don't normally put makeup on her!)

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
My mum bought a berry wreath for a fancy dress-costume, and I liked it and wanted to shoot a photo that wasn't a self-portrait the afternoon my mum bought it, so that's where my sister came in.

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
Erin pretends she doesn't, but she loves being in front of the camera if I am photographing her and she is really good at 'posing'. In real life she's a tomboy, so she complains if I do anything with her hair or make her wear a dress. Throughout this shoot she was complaining that the wreath hurt her head!

Inverse Bokehfication by Hobsonish

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
1/10th sec, F3.5, ISO 3200, 10mm focal length

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
No software, no post production, this image is the jpeg rendered by in the camera firmware (7D Firmware Version 1.2.1), file transferred SOOC, straight out of the camera.

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
A bundle of Fibre-optic strands and a slowly pulsing array of LEDs

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I've taken shots of every other light source in the house, so now I'm trying to work my way through objects that diffuse or refract light as well. This shot was a logical progression in terms of the continuing exploration of the concept of 'light painting'.

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
The only vaguely amusing anecdote from this shot involves the (fairly common) occurrence of my wife sticking her head around the door and quickly replacing the initially baffled expression on her face with a rolling of the eyes and a vague sigh, then closing the door without a word.

Untitled by Naomi Frost

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Canon 5DMkII and the 24-70mm f/2.8 lens

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
ISO 250, f/2.8, 1/8000 sec

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
All post production is done in CS4

Q4. Who are the models?
Models are clients who had commissioned their family portraits.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
The original image needed a little something extra so I had to fill the space somehow.

Pick A Straw by Ngaire Naran

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
I used my Canon 40D camera plus two lights. One was a halogen desk lamp and another a small torch. I used my 50mm f/1.8 lens for this shot - I love this lens as it is so fast and sharp. Because I don't have any off camera flash units, I use torches and lamps for all my lighting and I find that this does the job OK.

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Exposure 1/640 sec, Aperture f/1.8, ISO 100

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Just PICNIK (I have since bought myself Photoshop CS5 but for this shot I just used the editing tools in Picnik)

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
The subject was a bunch of straws (yellow ones actually!)

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
It was one of those days when I still hadn't taken my shot for my 365 project and was running out of inspiration. Often I get ideas from Flickr and as I had seen a few straw shots, that gave me the inspiration I lacked.

So how did I go about taking the shot - well I used a shallow DOF and shone my desk lamp from above - I think sitting on a wooden desk affected the colour further down the straws. I also shone my little torch light at the base of the straws which were sitting in a small glass jar. I had envisaged the shot coming out differently, but then thought that this foggy effect looked OK.

While I was in Picnik adding the frame, I thought, "hmm, what else can I play around with here?" So I ended up inverting the shot and then playing around with the tint... and that is what I ended up posting.

D is for Drama by Krista Long

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
I used a Canon EOS 20D with a 50mm 1:1.8 lens

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Settings were ISO 100, f/6.3 at .60 sec.

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
I used Photoshop Elements 8.0 to edit

Q4. Who is the model?
The model is my daughter, Kobie.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
This photo was taken for a group I participate in called, "Our Daily Challenge". The challenge for the day was, "the letter D". I immediately started thinking about my dramatic daughter. It was a Saturday, and we had a bunch of girls in the house playing. They really got into the costume box and came up with many dramatic looks, taking turns modeling for me in the pink chair. I had a feeling my daughter would bring the extra drama in her attitude that made the picture!

Kawagebo, Yunnan, China by Ping Ping

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Nikon D80, 18-135 mm lens

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
F5.6, 1/250, ISO 160, EV -2.0

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
I remember that there is no post-production on this photo.

Q4. What is the location?
It is right at the boundary of Tibet and Yunnan province in China. Actually it is one of the most famous and important mountains in Tibetan buddhism.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I just got my first camera during that trip. I tried to take photos of everything. Once I saw a photo of the gold shining snow mountain there. I asked my friend where was it and how to take those kinda photos. After talking for a night, we decided to go there the next day.

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
The lights in the sunrise turn the white snow mountain into gold shining color so I woke up around five in the morning to wait for the moment. Unfortunately the weather was not good enough and there were too many clouds in the sky to cover the whole mountain. In addition, It was so cold that I felt that I had lost my figures and nose. When I almost gave up after being frozen for almost two hours, Kawagebo showed its face to me! It only lasted for several minutes. I love nature!