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Camera body: NEX-7
Lens: Leica Summilux 50mm
Aperture: f5.6
Filters:
Short note on PP: Just standard sharpening
Votes; top vote goes to jpeter, a totally surrealist, yet realistic shot, very well executed in B&W. N°2: briantho, N°3: leadygonzales
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Anyone noticing that these are the same three votes I cast last month can conclude that I messed up last month. Apologies to all, and congrats to Phillip Reeve!
Also didn't get out much in January for health reasons, but I did get one street shot, which is very unusual for me do to legal constraints in France
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Camera body: Canon 5d2
Lens: Leica 35-70mm f4 @ 35mm
Aperture: f5.6
Filters: none
Short note on PP: 2-frame Stitch, contrast/levels, sharpen
Votes;1- Bobbytan: The monkee face just jumps out at you. Great detail
helimat, bobu
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Taken in Grand Teton National Park after a great ski run.
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Camera body: Sigma DP2 Merrill
Lens: 30mm (45mm equivl)
Aperture: f/8
Filters: Marumi Super DHG Polarizer
Short note on PP: Fidding with Sigma Photo Pro and minor adjustments
in Photoshop
Top vote + reason: bobbytan - Technically perfect shot of a captivating subject. Nailed the focus on the eyes, just enough DoF, but not too much, sharp, perfect exposure. On an emotional level it really allows you to "connect" with the subject.
Vote 2: Phillip Reeves
Vote 3: Bobu
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First waterfall shot I've taken in January...two weeks after this was taken there was ice everywhere.
Attention: A small change this month. Please include a short explanation of the reasons for your top pick when voting.
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Aperture:
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Filters: nope
Short note on PP: increased contrast
Top vote + reason: xbarcelo great view, light migh have been a bit more interestiung, but wayne
Vote 2: briantho
Vote 3: LeadyGonzales - would have benn no 1 if the shadows and fog were cleaner
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Get well soon briantho, and thanks for maintaining this great competition...
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Camera body: Canon 5D Mk III
Lens: Contax N 24-85 f3.5-4.5, 1/50s, f5.6, ISO200
Aperture:Filters: nope
Short note on PP: Large degree of highlight suppression using C1 Pro V7. One step TIF-jpeg resize using ImageJ resize least-squares cubic spline script.
Top vote + reason: telyt, for a great image with a very high technical degree of difficulty (I feel like a skating judge!)
Vote 2: Phillip Reeve
Vote 3: Philber
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Camera body: Pentax 6x7
Lens: Takumar 105/2.4
Aperture: probably wide open
Filters: none
Short note on PP: scanned with an Epson v500, sharpened, adjusted contrast,
Votes: LeadyGonzales,Bobu,johnahill
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It was really tough to pick up my votes! Amazing contest last month!
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Camera body: Sony NEX 5N
Lens: Sony NEX 18-55
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: None
Short note on PP: WB, saturation, virtual ND filter
Top vote + reason: briantho, I love the colours and light of the portrait.
Vote 2: sebboh
Vote 3: HelenaN
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Camera body: NEX-7
Lens: rokkor MD W 28mm f/2
Aperture: f/2
Filters: none
Short note on PP: curves, shadows, highlights, saturation reduced.
top vote: xbarcelo – wonderful scene and composition with a real feel of being there and no sense of being overprocessed
runners up: HelenaN and Phillip Reeve
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briantho wrote:
Thanks. It's 15Bit we hope will get well, not me.
I'm doing my best on that thanks. The needed surgery was 3 weeks ago (emergency admission rather than scheduled, which saved me a wait). So i have some snapshots from this month taken whilst walking around trying to get strong again. I'll be back for the March competition.
briantho wrote: Attention: A small change this month. Please include a short explanation of the reasons for your top pick when voting.
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Camera body: E-PL5
Lens: Oly 40-150R
Aperture: 5.6
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Contrast adjust, saturation boost, crop, all in LR4.x
Top vote + reason: LeadyGonzales because of the gorgeous tones, lighting, and layers, and I'm a sucker for views like that.
Vote 2: Phillip Reeve
Vote 3: Steve Spencer
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Not quite up to the levels of the other pic, but appreciate the opportunity to participate.
**Edit - how do you keep the uploaded image from loosing sharpness?
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Camera body:a900
Lens:Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100/2.8
Aperture: f/4
Filters:N/A
Short note on PP: Cropped significantly (the 100 was the longest lens I had with me on this chance encounter and the younger ones get spooked if you get too close) and sharpened slightly for posting.
Top vote + reason: johnahill - love the subject, the composition, and the conversion
Vote 2: briantho
Vote 3: woodrim
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