1. Your entry must have been photographed using alt lens or gear.
Canon DSLR using Canon auto focus lens is NOT alt.
Nikon DSLR using Nikon auto focus lens is NOT alt.
Anything else IS alt, including all mirrorless systems.
2. Your entry must have been photographed during September for this run.
3. One entry per user/month.
4. Your entry must contain your top 3 picks from the last competition. You may not vote for your own photo. The top vote gets 3 points, the runner-up gets 2 points, and the last vote gets 1 point. Please include a short explanation of the reasons for your top pick.
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:
Top vote (3p) + reason:
Runner-up vote (2p):
Last vote (1p):
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Camera body: Pentax 645D
Lens: D-FA55/2.8
Aperture: f5.6
Filters: no
Short note on PP: basic PP in LR (shadows/ highlights, blacks, sharpen, clarity, color adjustment)
Top vote (3p) + reason: Tarocco - Pure composition, excellent colors
Runner-up vote (2p): Bobu - astonishing shot
Last vote (1p): Jman - great color and mood
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My contribution this month: View of the city in which the best beer in the world is brewed!
Congrats Ulff! Here's my best for the month: The Owl and the Tortoise.
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Camera body: Canon 6D
Lens: Panagor 90mm F2.8 Macro (OM Mount)
Aperture: 2.8
Filters: None
Short note on PP: Mostly added contrast and a slight crop
Top vote (3p) + reason: Bobu - Do I really need to say anything? One of the most amazing images I've ever seen.
Runner-up vote (2p): alwang
Last vote (1p): Jabberwockt
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Camera body: Canon 6D
Lens: Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE
Aperture: 4
Filters: -
Short note on PP: Adjusted WB/ Exposure/ Highlights and shadows in LR
Top vote (3p) + reason: sculptormic - I like the composition of different profiles against the colourful backdrop.
Runner-up vote (2p): Tarocco - color, bokeh/ DOF matching the subject very well.
Last vote (1p): Ulff - great intricate Piranesian space
The voting was hard this time, runner-ups: Bobu & Phillip Reeve
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Filters: None
Short note on PP: shadow and highlight recovery, saturation, contrast
Top vote (3p) + reason: Jabberwockt - i like the mood
Runner-up vote (2p): snowboarder
Last vote (1p): bobu
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Camera body: NEX-5N
Lens: Voigtlander 40/1.4 Nokton
Short note on PP: played with levels quite a bit, as the light was very low.
Top vote (3p) + reason: Ulff- the composition is brilliant
Runner-up vote (2p): Jabberwockt
Last vote (1p): Phillip Reeve
Camera and Lens: Nex 7 and Canon FD 50/1.2L @ f/5.6
Filters: None
Short note on PP: shadow and highlight recovery
Top vote (3p) + reason: Jabberwockt - fantastic use of color
Runner-up vote (2p): bobu- wonderful exploration of the hidden
Last vote (1p): jman- lovely colors and subject
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Camera body:NEX 7
Lens: Touit 12mm :2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Filters: None
Short note on PP: Just basic PP and curves
Top vote (3p) + reason: Bobu. Simply stunning! Visually rich, inspiring, poetic, scientific.....
Runner-up vote (2p): Ulff Another shot where I just shake my head in wonderment. As visually rich as last month's was simple.
Last vote (1p): Fracas. A great picture, and a typical wallhanger!
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I really anguished about whether to vote for Snowboardrer's great catch. It had to come first, for superb opportunism, or not at all. Because I know Andrew is in Bora-Bora and will come up with a great shot next month as well, I choose to pass this time around. Also Tarocco, Alwang might have scored in a weaker month
Here's my entry from a trip last month to San Francisco. Got some strange flare reflections, as I didn't have a hood for the old lens, and the sun was low.
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Camera body: NEX 5N
Lens: Contarex Zeiss 21mm Biogon f4.5
Aperture: f8
Filters: None
Short note on PP: Experimented using Color Efex and Viveza until I got something worth posting.
Top vote (3p) + reason: Bobu - It's amazing what's hidden under the water surface.
Runner-up vote (2p): Ulff
Last vote (1p): snowboarder
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Camera body: Sony NEX-7
Lens: Voigtlander 15/4.5 Heliar
Aperture: f/8
Filters: none
Short note on PP: to BW then split-toned
Top vote (3p) + reason: sculptormic - great capture
Runner-up vote (2p): bobu
Last vote (1p): snowboarder
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my nightmare for this month: http://www.paintingwithlight.de/FilesEx/fm201309.jpg
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Camera body: Canon 5D2
Lens: Canon 17 TS-E
Aperture: f/11.0
Filters: none
Short note on PP: perspective, color, contrast, local adjustments
Top vote (3p) + reason: bobu - for the image, planning and execution
Runner-up vote (2p): philber - great composition and colors, can't stop looking at it
Last vote (1p): Phillip Reeve - great mood
(many more good images last month! -snowboarder: your image would have been my favorite if the legs were not cut)
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Here is my shot from Sept. First outing with X100S
Camera body: X100s
Lens: 23mm
Aperture: f/11
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Raw converted in LR5 , a bit of clarity, sharpening, black point adjustment & some vibrance
Top vote (3p) + reason: Philbur, the color, clarity & transition to out of focus just makes this shot beautiful in my mind
Runner-up vote (2p):Fracus (it was a hard choice between this & Phiburs shot)
Last vote (1p): Snowboarder
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Camera body: Canon 5DII
Lens: Zeiss ZE 35 f/2
Aperture: f/8
Filters: none
Short note on PP: cropped and adjusted most everything else
Top vote (3p) + reason: ulff - like the way the curves blend into the grid like composition
Runner-up vote (2p): ebookman - reminds me of Roy Henry Vickers
Last vote (1p): alwang - a fun photo
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Camera body: Fuji X-E1
Lens: XF 14mm f/2.8
Aperture: 5.6
Filters: None
Short note on PP: Just some highlight recovery and shadow lifting. Slight WB tweak.
Top vote (3p) + reason: Ulff. Fascinating photo, feels like I could look at it for hours and still not figure it out.
Runner-up vote (2p): Philber, for more or less the same reason as above.
Last vote (1p): CarstenW. Nice colors and mood.
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Camera body: Fuji X10
Lens: Integrated
Aperture: f/4
Filters: None
Short note on PP: LR5 - B&W, crop, toning, lots of clarity and sharpening, vignette
Top vote (3p) + reason: Ulff - i don't really know why though. It's just so surreal perhaps?
Runner-up vote (2p): Bobu - the world above and the world below. Magnificent.
Last vote (1p): Krosavcheg - The colours, the composition. The fact i can't do still life at all and this is a good one.
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oops forgot to enter till now. not sure if this is my favorite for september, but it's up there:
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Camera body: rx1
Lens: zeiss 35/2 sonnar
Aperture: f/8
Filters: None
Short note on PP: applied my standard b&w conversion and probably did some shadows, highlights, vignetting adjustments i guess.
Top vote (3p) + reason: snowboarder – i love silly pictures of birds
Runner-up vote (2p): Ulff
Last vote (1p): Bobu
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