Challenge 2 close

[MHD]

Well its all over folks... Next friday night the winner will be announced at the dinner and here (this post) the next morning
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1st Place: Phoenix Rising
Winner of AN EPSON STYLUS PHOTO R800
and The one to decide the next comp there

2nd Place: The silver lining...
Winner of A PSD XDrive Pro II with 40Gb Hdd

3rd Place: stormlight
Winner of A 1Gb CF Card 45x
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Names have now been revealed on the challenge page and it is now publicly viewable...

Please leave comments!

[Glen]

MHD, thanks for all your effort on this, really appreciated by all (even us wooden spooners)

[phillipb]

Well I managed to guess at least 1 photo's owner. It was neat and in the middle. Nice shot Matt.

[MHD]

YEah... I like that one... great exposure control to get such great lighting in the clouds...

[bago100]

Thank you MHD for all your hours of work in maintaining the site.

Thank you Birdy for your generous donation of some magnificent prizes.

The competition is truely awesome. If I can be half as good as some of the contributors, I'll be well and truely content with that.

Thanks everyone

Graham

[sirhc55]

Many thanks MDH for all of your work associated with this forum and the hosting of the challenge

Chris

[dooda]

Are we allowed to comment/critique on the photos now?

[MHD]

Absolutely!

[kipper]

Mudder, where was the Shamrock Inn photographed? I swear I remember seeing something about a Shamrock Inn near Koroit / Tower Hill.

Then again there are probably a dozen of them

[MHD]

Ok Cat is out of the bag!!!!
Full results now up at
http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery/challenge2

[Raydar]

Thanks MHD

I can’t get over how close it was.
Great stuff all

Cheers
Ray

[sirhc55]

Congratulations to the winners - the final three certainly deserve accolades and well done to all who entered.

Right what’s the next one?

Cheers

Chris

[Onyx]

I'd just like to comment on how I voted - in case ppl find out who voted for whom, how much and why... and get aggro at me for voting them down.

I voted firstly based on the image's interpretation of the theme as how I perceived it - B&W in Nature. Sometimes what I thought was a wonderful black and white picture did not get high votes simply because it was not as well matched to the theme as others.

Secondly, I lack creativity (this is confirmed numerous times for me when looking at other people's images of the same or similar subjects as I have taken and being surprised and envious that they saw it from a perspective I didn't even think of shooting). I'm a technical photographer. I tend to rate perfect image technique of a boring picture higher than an emotional image with a technical mistake. Exposure, composition (I hate the thirds), etc.

Very high up on the list for me in this challenge was maximising contrast. I know I didn't do this very well myself, I blame my dislike for B&W, you may blame me for whatever... Black and white images are all about contrast, since colour is lacking to convey detail. For a B&W image to be optimised for contrast, a section of the picture should be solid white, one section solid black, and then all the shades of grey inbetween. Those that didn't have a noticeable area or segment of solid whites or blacks got marked down by me - it didn't matter at this stage what the image was depicting. I know, I'm unfair... feel free to hate me.

Craig, our winner - you now have the honour of choosing our next challenge. I look forward to your choice of topic!

[Raydar]

Craig, our winner - you now have the honour of choosing our next challenge. I look forward to your choice of topic!

Me to

& seagulls aren’t in the entry mate

Or DUCKS!!!!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

[sirhc55]

ar come on - lets give the ducks a go - and after we have shot them duck a la orange would be nice hehe

Chris

[Raydar]

Bloody Ducks

Cheers
Ray