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Please note: This competition is over.
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Already September, and a new chanse to show off your best shot from August.
The winner of the July competition: Snowboarder (12 votes). Congratulations!
1. Your entry must have been photographed using an alt lens or alt gear (See FAQ for definition).
2. Your entry must have been photographed during August 2012 for this run.
3. One entry per user/month.
4. Your entry must contain your top 3 picks from last months competition. You may not vote for your own photo.
Please leave the EXIF intact, and copy the following, adding info for your entry.
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Camera body:
Lens:
Aperture:
Filters:
Short note on PP:
Votes (3 usernames):
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Camera body: NEX-7
Lens: Elmarit-M 21/2.8
Aperture: f/4
Filters: N/A
Short note on PP: Two-shot pano in which the camera was moved a few feet along the fence's axis then cropped down to about a shot and half with the overlap. Converted to B&W via SEFX using the full-spectrum (soft) and minor adjustments to the shadows and added the border. Out through SharpenPro for the downsize.
Votes (3 usernames): philber, twoeye, H. Lux
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Camera body: NEX-7
Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/45
Aperture: probably f/5.6
Filters: N/A
Short note on PP: lifted the shadows and pulled the lights, resized with PS using a 4 step script http://flic.kr/p/cgBDYq
Votes (3 usernames): tsdevine, twoeye, Beni
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Contemplation
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Camera body: Canon 5D MkIII
Lens: Zeiss Distagon ZE 21/2.8
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: N/A
Short note on PP: Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop CS5, only 3 step resize/sharpen action applied. No additional processing.
Votes (3 usernames): brockwhittaker, tsdevine, Brian Thorne
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Camera body: Fuji X10
Lens: Integrated
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Basic RAW conversion, curves, NR and toning in LR4.
Votes (3 usernames): Sebboh, Twoeye, Bifurcator
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Camera body: Sony Nex-7
Lens: Sony SEL16F28 plus the VCL-ECU UWA adapter
Aperture: f/18
Filters: none
Short note on PP: to B&W, toned, lowered contrast.
Votes (3 usernames): twoeye, sebboh, brockwhittaker
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Edit: oh, I completely forgot: this was an in-camera HDR. 4 stops, I believe.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8440/7869260536_2a9f941f94_b.jpg
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Camera body: Canon 5D
Lens: Nikon 50mm f/1.2 AI-s
Aperture: f/1.6
Filters: cPL
Short note on PP: This is a panorama stitched together (four vertical shots). I added a bit of contrast, a grad. filter in RAW, and a little bit of clarity.
Votes (3 usernames): Jacob D, prosep, helimat
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Congratulations Snowboarder, and thank you briantho for handling this!
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Camera body: Canon 5D
Lens: ZE 35/1.4
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: Polarizer
Short note on PP: Started with a B&W preset in Lightroom, then added a slight blue and cream tone with Split Toning. Decreased clarity on the sky since the clouds made it too busy and distracting.
Votes (3 usernames): carstenw, brockwhittaker, Beni.
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Thank you! I too passed several times with nothing happening. Then one evening, just when I was about to give up and continue walking, they started to tear off some larger bits at the top. It's not nearly as dramatic as it looks in the photo (mostly lots of dust), but it's the result that counts.
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Camera body: KM 7D
Lens: 24-50mm f4 / 35mm
Aperture: f4
Filters: none
Short note on PP: 16 pics stitch, various tweaks in Color Efex and then Silver Efex
Votes (3 usernames): HelenaN, Phillip Reeve, brockwhittaker
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HelenaN wrote:
Thank you! I too passed several times with nothing happening. Then one evening, just when I was about to give up and continue walking, they started to tear off some larger bits at the top. It's not nearly as dramatic as it looks in the photo (mostly lots of dust), but it's the result that counts.
Yeah, it looks like the whole thing is coming down. Great capture.
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Camera body: NEX-5N
Lens: Canon FDn 300mm f2.8L
Aperture: f2.8
Filters: None
Short note on PP: This is actually a compo of two almost identical shots. The dandelion is from one, and my daughter's face from another. Reason is that she was out of focus in the shot where the dandelion was captured, so I had to puzzle it together.
Votes (3 usernames): carstenw, wfrank, Bifurcator
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I actually had the least productive month in a very long time in August, and had just two shots to choose from, neither particularly characteristic of my main work at this time, one of them an iPhone photo, and the other one a playful non-serious shot. This is the playful shot, which I ended up really liking.
