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Photo of the Day: April 2014

Laird Knox said:
Had some fun this week. Sigma hosted a photo contest at the College of Southern Nevada. There were two requirements - you had to use a Sigma lens and you could only submit a JPG straight off of the camera with no post processing. They had multiple copies of most every lens in both Nikon and Canon mounts that you could check out for up to an hour.

With the time constraints and having to stay on campus it really put the pressure on. The shot had to be right the first time, clone stamps not allowed. ;)

There were six categories:

- People/Portraits
- Architecture
- Macro
- Experimental/Creative
- Product/Still Life
- Nature/Plant/Wildlife

This was my entry in the Experimental/Creative category.

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MacRy said:
Nice! Clever idea really well executed.
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just as MacRy said, very nicely done and stupendous imagination

tell us how it goes!!
 
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Ok first try.

Australia Day fireworks in Perth 2014.
It's a single 2 second exposure at 70mm, f8 and ISO100. Canon 1dx 24-70 f2.8L II.

Very limited post processing and very jammy timing! Got this one on my wall as it shows unusual symmetry...
 

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needfx said:
just as MacRy said, very nicely done and stupendous imagination

tell us how it goes!!
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Thank you! There are a couple of versions I'm going to have fun with in post (I shot in RAW + JPG). On a few of them I had some trouble nailing the exposure and they are a bit light but fully recoverable. Not having done double exposures before I wasn't positive how to dial in the settings. Plus I didn't want David to have to stand there too long in the 95 degree heat wearing his leathers and gas mask. :D

The contest only ran from Monday through Wednesday at 4pm. Awards were at 6pm. The double exposure won first place in the experimental/creative category.

The sigma rep told me that I was in the running in several categories but was only allowed to win once. I wonder what could have been? ;) Overall it was a fantastic experience and there were some awesome entries. It was amazing to see all the talented competitors when you consider the constraints of the contest.

So here is my entry in the People/Portraits category.

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Sigma 85mm f1.4 macro at f16, ISO 100, 24 seconds
 
Laird Knox said:
Thank you! There are a couple of versions I'm going to have fun with in post (I shot in RAW + JPG). On a few of them I had some trouble nailing the exposure and they are a bit light but fully recoverable. Not having done double exposures before I wasn't positive how to dial in the settings. Plus I didn't want David to have to stand there too long in the 95 degree heat wearing his leathers and gas mask. :D

The contest only ran from Monday through Wednesday at 4pm. Awards were at 6pm. The double exposure won first place in the experimental/creative category.

The sigma rep told me that I was in the running in several categories but was only allowed to win once. I wonder what could have been? ;) Overall it was a fantastic experience and there were some awesome entries. It was amazing to see all the talented competitors when you consider the constraints of the contest.

So here is my entry in the People/Portraits category.

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Sigma 85mm f1.4 macro at f16, ISO 100, 24 seconds
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ooh! so you won??!

that's effing great! what did you win? well deserved!
 
Apple fanboy said:
Love the lighting in this one. Very nice.
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Thanks, AFB!

Cheese&Apple said:
Absolutely beautiful MCH-1138...you nailed it! Great colours, lighting and framing.

Normally, I would suggest that a subject in motion is best captured moving into the frame instead of out of the frame but this works really well with the light source included and the backlit wings.
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Thanks, Cheese&Apple -- very kind. I try to keep that rule of thumb in mind when framing or cropping (more often the latter than the former), but have found myself deliberately breaking it on several occasions, either to (1) crop the feeder or some other distraction out of the frame; or (2) convey/emphasize the sense of motion (as if the bird as is already on its way out of the frame). It works better in some shots than others, but I enjoy the experimentation.


Hummingbird (7940) by MCH-1138, on Flickr

D7000 • Nikon 85mm f/1.8G • 1/1000 @ f/4
 
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needfx said:
ooh! so you won??!

that's effing great! what did you win? well deserved!
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Yeah congrats dude that's awesome. Very well deserved, it was a cracking shot.

MCH-1138 said:
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D7000 • Nikon 85mm f/1.8G • 1/1000 @ f/4
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I'm loving your hummingbird shots. Really nice. Makes me wish that we had some more exotic looking birds in the UK.

Mine for today is my very naughty dog looking all innocent.

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MacRy said:
Yeah congrats dude that's awesome. Very well deserved, it was a cracking shot.



I'm loving your hummingbird shots. Really nice. Makes me wish that we had some more exotic looking birds in the UK.

Mine for today is my very naughty dog looking all innocent.

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Totally agree about the birds! Oh look another sparrow!
 
MacRy said:
I'm loving your hummingbird shots. Really nice. Makes me wish that we had some more exotic looking birds in the UK.
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We have fantastic birds in UK. Jay, nuthatch, goldfinch, greater spotted woodpecker (just four species that I saw in the woods yesterday). And that's before I think about kingfishers or wheatears or redpolls. Ever seen a barn owl at dusk, like a white ghost? Or a flock of starlings, thousands of them, twisting and turning in the sky, as though possessed of one mind? Or a gannet plunging into the sea? Or a puffin with a beak full of fish? Or an osprey, or peregrine falcon, 'stooping' at 200mph. Or a swift, that eats, mates and sleeps on the wing. Or the pair of blackcaps, singing as I type, which wintered in sub-Saharan Africa, and flew back here, to this wood, to raise another brood. Barely an ounce of bird, but able to cross oceans and continents...

Another view of William Wordsworth's house...

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Laird Knox said:
The contest only ran from Monday through Wednesday at 4pm. Awards were at 6pm. The double exposure won first place in the experimental/creative category.
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Congrats - a well deserved win. Did you get to keep the lens as your prize?

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Doylem said:
We have fantastic birds in UK.
... a flock of starlings, thousands of them, twisting and turning in the sky, as though possessed of one mind?
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Starling swarm at sunset by Parkin Pig, on Flickr

A free session of OCD therapy to the first person who can tell me how many birds are in this photo.
 
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