Re: FM Canon Contest: Wildlife photography on a shoestring budget
PetKal wrote:
Let us see who can shoot wildlife with the cheapest gears, i.e., camera + lens.
The cheaper, the better. The winning photo entries will be those taken by the very cheapest kit of the cheap.
A few contest rules:
(1) The gears must include a Canon dSLR. The lens could be by a 3rd party.
(2) Pictures of house pets, domestic animals, or zoo animals are not allowed in the contest.
(3) Shots of roadkill or otherwise expired/taxidermied animals are not allowed.
(4) No iPhones.......they are not considered Canon dSLRs.
(5) When adding the total price of your gears, use the following guideline: for gears currently in production please apply the new retail price by Adorama or equivalent. For gears out of production, you may wish to use the KEH used gear sale website, for the particular condition of your equipment.
Photonadave wrote:
\"I don\'t need no STINKING lens!
2nd submission taken about an hour ago.
I know, I know, its a little fuzzy due to DPP not having a DLO profile available for pinhole adapted EOS 40D cameras! What is Canon thinking! I need to complain to Chuck Westfall about this heinous lack of support!
Trust me, this is a fly.\"
PetKal wrote:
Dave, that is superb. Indeed, the rules do not stipulate that a lens is mandatory. What might hold your submission back in the final analysis, is a relative lack of subject detail. But hey, art has no sharpness prerequisites.
Thanks Peter! You\'re way too kind!
In reference to your original rules I must protest and move that my submission of the 40D equipped with a pinhole opening be disqualified on the following grounds:
1. A pinhole does not constitute a lens by definition, see Here. Your original rules do say \"camera + lens\".
2. The sprit of the completion is demonstrated by the many amazing photos including yours submitted as examples of the quality of imaging from the \"cheapest kit of the cheap\" taken by the aforementioned \"camera + lens\".
It is therefore implied that the useable level of image quality and types of images a reasonable person could expect to attain is derived from readily available equipment purchased from the usual common sources.
With that in mind a reasonable person would conclude, aside from any ill perceived artistic merit , that my submission of a portrait of a fly sitting on a leaf under natural daylight taken with a Canon 40D adapted with a pinhole opening does not look like a fly sitting on a leaf in natural daylight.
3. Last and most importantly, I was being a smart a@@!
Please continue to consider my earlier submission \"biplane Dragonfly\" in this competition.
Thanks, Dave
Nov 16, 2014 at 12:08 PM
Previous versions of Photonadave's message #12688372 « FM Canon Contest: Wildlife photography on a shoestring budget »
, that my submission of a portrait of a fly sitting on a leaf under natural daylight taken with a Canon 40D adapted with a pinhole opening does not look like a fly sitting on a leaf in natural daylight.