Port of Liverpool Building by Graham Hazeldon

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Fuji S5 Pro with Nikon 18-55mm kit lens

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Aperture priority f/4 @ 1/225, ISO 100 and exposure compensation -0.7

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Adobe Photoshop CS3

Q4. What is the location?
Liverpool, UK

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I spotted the building reflected in a puddle as I was about to head home from the location after taking a few shots of various subjects.

Les Alpinistes II by Sime Jadresin

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Pentax K20d with a Pentax 50mm f/2.0 lens, Metz 48 AF-1 speedlight, umbrella.

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
1/180 sec, f/8, ISO 100

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
CameraRaw, Photoshop

Q4. Who are the models?
The most faithful of them all. ME!!

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
This is a improvement of the picture called Les Alpinistes. The idea? Like with all other pictures - it just came into my head and didn't want to go until I took the shot!

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
The funniest thing was the expression on my girlfriend's face when she opened the door and saw me imitating the second climber. :-)

Horses by Frau Isaeva

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Canon 50D, lens 50mm

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
F/5.6, 1/60 sec

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
I think none. I just cropped it in iPhoto.

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
Shrimps in action

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I love sea food, so I shoot it :-))))

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
They are hanging in fact, but I think everyone can see that.

Drops meet color by Tobias Bräuning

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
- Canon 40D
- 2 Flashes
- Arduino microcontroller
- 3 solenoid valves
- Some selfmade circuits
- PC with a selfmade GUI to control all parameters on the microcontroller for generating the drops, timing of shutter release and triggering the flashes
- A lot of cables :-)
- Some ink for the colors

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
The camera was set to manual mode, shutter 0.6 sec, F/16, ISO200. Camera, flashes and valves are controlled by microcontroller.


Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
I used Canon Digital Photo Professional for the RAW conversion, then I did some clean-up + contrast settings in Photoshop Elements 8.

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
What we can see in this photo is the result of a collision of 3 waterdrops. The first one falls down into the water, then splashes up again. When it's rising up, the second drop falls down and collides with the upcoming first one. Some milliseconds later, the third drop comes down and collides with the result of the first drop collision... So finally this results in very exciting, various forms.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I saw some images of such drop collisions with 3 drops, but my valve was too slow to make it possible with only one valve. So I decided to try it with 3 valves (let me say - it is not easy to get 3 drops to one flight path!), and with the 3-valve-solution it got also possible to use different colored drops, something I've never seen before in this combination. So I had the motivation to make it work. :-)

A Night and A Storm by Dan Ballard

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Nikon D700 and Nikon 70-300mm

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
6 second exposure, f/4.8, ISO 400

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Lightroom

Q4. What is the location?
Plains of South-East Colorado, USA

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I was out shooting a summer storm with my girlfriend and we came to the outside edge of it where we could see "into" the storm. It was amazing!!!

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
Let's just say we had a few issues with totally darkness and cow patties. :))

Untitled by Buthaina Farei

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
NIKON D90

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec, Aperture: F/10.0,
ISO Speed: 200, Focal Length: 85 mm

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows

Q4. What is the subject of the photo?
The subject was to make a "bokeh" shot.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I was talking with my friend (a photographer) about a bokeh art in photography and we agreed to have a "workshop" on this effect. It was like the challenge for us. Each of us thought of something different from the other. But at last this shot end up as the winner.

Milk today by Cath Schneider

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
I used Canon EOS 5D MarkII with Canon EF 100mm 2.8 macro lens.

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
1/200 sec - f/3.5 - ISO 160

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

Q4. Who is the model?
The models are Lili (a wonderful little girl and my daughter) and Harry (a small hedgehog in our garden).

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
When I took this picture, I was walking in the garden with my daughter to do some macro photography. We saw this little hedgehog across the road and gave him some milk to drink. My daughter had never seen a hedgehog so close before and nor had I.