p.1 #1 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
THANKS to everyone for submitting entries, we've had a bumper crop of votes and submissions.
Welcome to the Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Results are in for Competition #156 June 2025
Competition #156 was won by pbraymond with an astonishing count of 7 'top scores' and a total of 24 points.
Joint runners up on 12 point each were The Rat and myself
Congratulations to all winners.
Thanks for the participation and voting.
1st Place pbraymond (24 points):
Joint runner-up: The Rat (12 Points):
Joint runner-up: johnahill (12 Points):
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Now on to Competition #158 - August
Please post your shots taken in August 2025
Now on to this month's competition, can I ask new entrants to PLEASE read the rules below ? You MUST vote and MUST include the EXIF with your shot .
1. Your entry must have been photographed using alt or mirrorless lens or gear.
Canon DSLR using Canon EF mount lens is NOT alt.
Nikon DSLR using Nikon F mount lens is NOT alt.
Anything else IS alt, including all mirrorless systems.
2. Your entry must have been photographed during August 2025 for this event.
3. Your submission must be posted by 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 30th September 2025 to be eligible.
4. One entry per user per month.
5. 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 below, adding your info & votes to 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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p.1 #2 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
I'll kick off proceedings
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Camera body:A7r4
Lens: Sigma 40mmm 1.4
Aperture: 1.4
Filters: none
Short note on PP: converted to mono in silverefex
Top vote (3p) + reason: pingflood - love the light on the mountain
Runner-up vote (2p): bmike-vt
Last vote (1p): RoamingScott
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Camera body: A7RV
Lens: Sigma 500mm f/5.6
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: none
Short note on PP: my standard Lightroom workflow
Top vote (3p) + reason: johnahill - love the patterns, curving lines, and infrared look
Runner-up vote (2p): RoamingScott
Last vote (1p): tsdevine
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ILCE-7RM5500mm F5.6 DG DN OS | Sports 024 lens500mmf/5.61/500s2000 ISO-1.0 EV
p.1 #4 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Congratulations to the winners, great to see more entries again!
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Camera body: Fuji GFX100S II
Lens: Fuji 20-35mm f/4 R WR
Aperture: f/8
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Fuji Pixel Shift Combiner, into Lightroom (exposure/color adjustment as well as some small amount of correction to get the image more symmetrical, it was very close as is though), Photoshop (more color/exposure adjustment, some dodging), Topaz Sharpen AI
Top vote (3p) + reason: Ross Martin - wonderful candid, perfect focus, great composition
Runner-up vote (2p): johnahill
Last vote (1p): pingflood
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This is a 16 shot pixel shift processed to yield approximately a 396 megapixel image. Reducing it to 1600x1200 seems almost a travesty .
Here is a 100% resolution crop of the image. If this is not acceptable to post this in the competition, please let me know and I'll remove it. (And if that then causes issues with this image being in the competition, I'll remove it.)
p.1 #5 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
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Camera body: Sigma fpL
Lens: Sigma 45mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Filters: none
Short note on PP: Using Sigma's FOV Yellow preset
Top vote (3p) + reason: AdaptedLenses - I can feel the quiet in this image, lovely
Runner-up vote (2p): pingflood
Last vote (1p): ruthenium
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p.1 #6 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Happy with that result!
My votes for last month:
Top vote (3p) + reason: pbraymond, really like the delicate details.
Runner-up vote (2p): Ross Martin.
Last vote (1p): pingflood
I didn't get out for photos/hiking much in August. This was a quick sunrise I did during the week at Lake Haiyaha.
Camera body: Olympus EM1 Mk2
Lens: 7-14 Pro
Aperture: f8
Filters: None, but using tripod 80mp hi-res mode.
Short note on PP: Basic processing done in DxO Photolab 8.
p.1 #7 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
August was a veeeeery slow photography month for me but I had a nice evening at the cabin and got some shots at the end of the month that I found pleasing.
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Camera body: Panasonic S1R
Lens: Leica SL 24-90
Aperture: f/8
Filters: none
Short note on PP: usual PS workflow (adaptive color, some minor slider tweaking)
Top vote (3p) + reason: RoamingScott -- I can't put my finger on what it is but there's something really pleasing about this image and I feel like it tells a story. The soft colors make it feel a bit "old" too.
Runner-up vote (2p): The Rat
Last vote (1p): bmike-vt
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DC-S1RVARIO-ELMARIT-SL 1:2.8-4/24-90 ASPH. lens54mmf/8.01/125s200 ISO-0.7 EV
p.1 #8 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Congrats as always to the winners. Young man right before he landed a shark on the beach.
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Camera body: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikon AIS 135mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Filters: N/A
Short note on PP: Adobe ACR Levels
Top vote (3p) + reason: johnahill - surreal in the best way.
Runner-up vote (2p): RoamingScott - great Americana.
Last vote (1p): tsdevine - that eddy at the bottom pulled it all together.
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Camera body: a7IV
Lens: Tamron 20-40 2.8
Aperture: f/8 @ 1/1250
Filters: None
Short note on PP: Multi Row + Column Panorama, Stitched in and processed in Lr
Top vote (3p) + reason: pingflood - love the BW processing
Runner-up vote (2p): RoamingScott
Last vote (1p): TNCasual
p.1 #10 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Congrats as always to the winners. Young man right before he landed a shark on the beach.
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Camera body: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikon AIS 135mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Filters: N/A
Short note on PP: Adobe ACR Levels
Top vote (3p) + reason:
Runner-up vote (2p):
Last vote (1p):
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p.1 #12 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Great stuff last month all, and grats to the top 3, what a runaway first was!
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Camera body: Nikon Zf
Lens: TTArtisan 75 AF
Aperture: f2
Filters: n/a
Short note on PP: color adjustments to get that Ranchero yellow to sing
Top vote (3p) + reason: ruthenium - Looks like a very challenging scene to expose and result was fantastic
Runner-up vote (2p): retrofocus
Last vote (1p): bmike-vt
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p.1 #13 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Congrats to the well deserved winners of the previous competition!
Photo taken of Niagara Falls from the Rainbow Bridge crossing between USA and Canada in late August.
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Camera body: Leica M-E 240
Lens: Leica 35/2.4 Summarit-M
Aperture: f/8.0
Filters: none
Short note on PP: PP in Adobe PS and Nik Color Efex software
Top vote (3p) + reason: johnahill: Love this scenic B&W/IR composition!
Runner-up vote (2p): RoamingScott: cool composition but even more so to see in details here.
Last vote (1p): ruthenium
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p.1 #14 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
Wow, great to see the participation up! I'm very pleasantly surprised and honored to receive the votes last month, thank you! I guess I should be exploring more dramatic post processing apart from my usual landscape shots! Will be back to post this month's entry soon.
p.1 #15 · The Alt and Mirrorless Monthly Competition #158
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Camera body: Z7ii
Lens: Nikon 14-30
Aperture: 8.0
Filters: na
Short note on PP: Just basic LR tones, sharpening, crop
Top vote (3p) + reason: retrofocus - great tones and color, also like the OOF areas even if it's not the smoothest, works.
Runner-up vote (2p): tsddevine
Last vote (1p): johnahill
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