Lights: The latest war!

Been busy with college life lately and haven't posted in a long time but I'll put a new challenge up.  I took this picture of my Christmas tree this just barely last year.  We'll let Max have some time to take a picture.

~Lucas

Pepper!

Photo 1 - Max:

Photo 2 - Max:

Yes, they're both mine; Lucas hasn't been posting photos recently, so after I'd posted photo #1 (and someone inexplicably voted "Tie"), I just decided to fill up the empty space where #2 should go with another of mine.

Far far and away.

Photo 1 - Lucas 


Photo 2 - Max

Portraits

Photo 1, by Lucas:

Photo 2, by Max:

I think this photo was/is completely unedited (SOOC), which is more than I can say for photo #1, which was given selective focus in Picasa. 

Streams or rivers

Picture 1, by Lucas:

Picture 2, by Max:

Too good to be true

B&W of a cat

Picture 1, by Lucas:

Picture 2, by Max:
I know it's out of focus - manual focusing isn't very easy for me.
However,isn't she still kind of cute in this photo, especially since she's facing the camera?
If only I'd had this one in focus; now that would be a keeper (in my opinion - you may disagree).

Macro of a coin

Picture 1, by Lucas:

Picture 2, by Max:
Come on people; the shield is in focus; isn't it kind of an interesting shot?
I think Lucas is bribing people or something to vote for him.

A Random Macro

Macro 1, by Lucas: One of my favorite friends, the more I see of him the better I feel. lol

Photo 2, by Max
Yes, I know the photo is really not very good.  however, perhaps something can be said for the "light and dark sides" lighting

A short

Movie 1

I'm posting this because I thought it was so funny

Sea Landscapes

Picture 1, by Lucas

Picture 2, by Max

Trees

Picture 1, by Lucas

Picture 2, by Max

The Moon

Picture 1, by Lucas

Picture 2, by Max

You can clearly see the advantage of a longer focal length in moon shots; Lucas was using an EF 75-300mm lens, which equates to 480mm on his camera due to its APS-C (cropped-frame) sensor.

I (Max) used a 55-250mm EF-S lens and cropped the photo...perhaps if I had had a camera with more megapixels, such as the 7D, I'd have been able to zoom in more and get more detail.

480mm vs. 250mm; not very fair there, is it?