POTN Powershot Speed Challenge #75 - Reflection

[nwyman]

Title: POTN Powershot Speed Challenge #75 - Reflection


Challenge - Reflection
Doesn't have to be light or water, be creative!________________________________

To submit, click "Post Reply" and put your Photo Name in the Subject Line. Don't forget your Camera Model.

Post until Monday noon GMT, 18/06/2007
Photo Submissions

1. Camera -- Any Canon Powershot Series Camera (SD, A-series, S1/2, & S-series only...No Pro 1's!!!)

2. Time -- any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered.

3. Size -- Photo must be EXACTLY 800 pixels on the longest side and no more than 200K in size with NO BORDERS. Here is some help for resizing your photos in Photoshop - http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...9&postcount=26 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=663519&postcount=26)

4. Post-Processing -- do whatever you like and the host will decide if it works.

5. Posting --
* ONE PHOTO per photographer in each challenge.
* Photo Name in the message subject line.
* Camera model.

6. Notes -- Name and camera you used and any other information pertaining to the photo...location, photo tips, brief EXIF data ect.

7. Commenting -- No commenting during challenge. When the posting is closed, comments can be made in this thread.

Time

One challenge every week, on the following schedule:

New Topic ... After winner is declared.
Posting Starts ... Right after topic is announced.
Posting Stops ... Monday noon GMT
Winners Announcement ... As soon as possible after the contest has been closed.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please consider turning on Private Messaging in your profile.
This will allow the host to contact you about winning or ineligible photos. You turn this feature on by clicking "User CP, Edit Options, Enable Private Messaging" (about a third of the way down the page). Thank you.
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POTN Powershot Challenge Info & Winners List and Rankings: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=133933 (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=133933)
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Last edited by Diminished29 : 17th of February

[jcumming]

taken early in the morning with my Canon A95
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1316/543874311_06622bbe27_o.jpg

[dexdex]

PowerShot G7

[chrysalis]

"Fire in the Water"
A95. No PP except resizing

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n287/chrysalis738/Contest.jpg

[cmcleod69]

PS A620
Image capture in Tucson, Arizona 05/29/2007

FL: 21.71mm
f/4
1/2 sec.


http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z155/channing_mcleod/Audi_A4003.jpg

[urcunina]

Canon A620 Taken thru the window at the terminal. Boeing 777.

Used automatic setting.

-Joe

[Paul B]

Old on new. S50 on auto.

[mishnogram]

Took this last year during early spring.

f/4.0, 1/800 sec, ISO 50, everything else was set to auto.

http://www.lee-family.smugmug.com/photos/130117521-700x700.jpg

Enjoy

[Micky Daeus]

Canon S3IS
Auto Mode
Infinite MF

[Edd S]

Title: Morning Reflection
Camera: Canon S3IS


http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f31/Edd_S/sunrise9.jpg

[anil_cn]

Reflection on jug
Canon S2 IS

[Jeece]

Dreaming of evasion

http://www.jeece.net/photo/IMG_2258-2.jpg

Canon S2 IS
1/1600s
F2.7
ISO 100

Post-processing: Crop, curves, saturation and sharpenning.

[abYss]

A710 IS: F/3.2, 1/200 sec


http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d79/abyss_004/POTN/sunset001.jpg


Loc: Cyber Park

[Novaheart]

title = echo beach
camera = A620
f/4.1
1/800 sec.
cropped into vertical orientation.
desaturated all but person and reflection.
sharpened.
increased the contrast.
increased the saturation of the person and reflection.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/novaheart/potn%20contests/echo_beach_desaturated.jpg

[drocpsu]

"Colorful Canal"
Canon S3 IS
Aperture: f/4
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Focal Length: 6mm
PP: levels
http://derekdemeter.com/pics/flickr/gentcanal_800.jpg

[stanley_pope]

Camera = S3
Shutter Speed = 1/100 sec
Aperture = F5.0
Focal Length - 13.5mm
Stan

[Chantelle]

Canon S3IS
Program Setting
Image Editing: None

[benarnold]

Canon A620. 1/60 sec at f/4.1

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u283/aikidoben/York026.jpg

[nwyman]

contest is now officially closed. Results to be posted momentarily.

[nwyman]

I hve to begin by stating - I am most emphatically NOT good enough to be a judge of anyone else's work. Indeed, when I entered last week's contest, I totally forgot that the winner had the judging responsibility. B ut I will give it a try.

Everyone's entries were lovely. Some were breathtaking.
In order to make my job easier, I am going strictly by the exact title of the competition, which is "reflection". Therefore, that which is reflected must be seen as the subject of the composition, not just a part of the overall picture.

With that standard in place, I chose the following as the winners.

#1 - San Marco by dexdex
#2 - 75 Mile Beach by mickeydaeus
#3 - Minster In the Mirror by benarnold

Honorable Mentions to

Airport Reflection by urcina
and
old on new by PaulB

Both of these were nice shots of reflections, but weren't framed as well as the winners (in my opinion, of course).

Hoping I haven't annoyed too many of you

[BBoi]

LOL, any other time these things linger on for hours before anyone closes and judges, today I miss by an hour and it's all done and dusted after just 12 minutes :(

Congrats to the winners, and good images submitted by all imho. Looking forward to the next one.

[cmcleod69]

NWYMAN,
Good choices IMO.

Great photos everyone...looking forward to the next try.

[dexdex]

Mamma mia ! Thanks Venice, and thank you for choosing my picture
It was taken early in the morning, last May, form the Giudecca Island: the subject is too famous to call for any further comment.
Greetings from sunny Switzerland. Dex

[urcunina]

San Marco by dexdex.

dexdex, congratulations! Yours was the second posting in this challenge and I've gone back to look at it every day. I'm totally charmed. Thank you!

nwyman, I was pleased to get honorable mention from you (airport reflection). I'm new at this and would like you to comment on what I should look for in framing this better. Thanks so much for your comment!

-Joe

[nwyman]

[quote=urcunina;3403505]San Marco by dexdex.


nwyman, I was pleased to get honorable mention from you (airport reflection). I'm new at this and would like you to comment on what I should look for in framing this better. Thanks so much for your comment!


my feeling was that the front end of the plane was chopped off, and there were too many distracting elements in the foreground. I'd like to have seen the entire reflection of the plane, and not so much of the airport transport trucks and such on the tarmac. But that might just be a personal quirk of mine-and you were probably limited by your location in the airport.
I hate critiquing the work of others, so don't take my comments as gospel.:)

[urcunina]

nwyman, thanks for that. It was just what I wanted.

-Joe

[abYss]

Congratulations to all the winners.... great shots guys ! :eek:

Personally, I liked...
'Fire in the Water' by chrysalis - that's stunning shot !
'Colorful Canal' by drocpsu - simply awesome & sharp too.
'Minster In the Mirror' by benarnold - nicely done !

btw, can someone help to clarify if G-Series is allowed here ? Sorry, I am just curious, didn't mean to insult anyone.

[Jon]

btw, can someone help to clarify if G-Series is allowed here ? Sorry, I am just curious, didn't mean to insult anyone.
There's (or should be) a similar competition specifically for the G-series running in that forum. They've been runing longer, and arecurrently on their 124th competition (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=336766). The one here is modelled after theirs.

[teekay]

There's (or should be) a similar competition specifically for the G-series running in that forum. They've been runing longer, and arecurrently on their 124th competition (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=336766). The one here is modelled after theirs.

Jon, I think abYss was asking a reasonable question that I had wondered about myself since this week's winner in *this* forum showed his entry was taken with a G7.

I participate in challenges on both forums and always understood this one excluded G-series cameras but now can see the rule is definitely ambiguous. I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for entering a G-series photo even though it hasn't happened before as far as I know.

Here's what the rule says:

1. Camera -- Any Canon Powershot Series Camera (SD, A-series, S1/2, & S-series only...No Pro 1's!!!)

Now a G7 is definitely a Powershot and it is smaller (I think) than the S1, 2, and 3 cameras that have been allowed here even though the forum is for "small compact digitals" which I think was originally meant to mean just the simpler, smaller Canons.

As far as picture taking ability is concerned, all the little Canons from A75 up to the G7 are quite capable of taking superb photos, as has been shown by the winners on this forun which have generally been at least equal in quality to the ones on the G-series forum, so it's not really a matter of the G-series cameras having an advantage.

Another rule that I think should be revisited - and maybe scrapped - is the one about maximum file size since it is often misunderstood and/or ignored by entrants and even judges. For example, challenge #74 was won by an image that should have been disqualified at more than 350K - *way* over over the limit.

Perhaps this discussion should be moved to a new thread?

[Jon]

The history of this challenge, including contests and winners to date (as and if the contest judges remember to update them) is here (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=133933). The Moderators don't run either this, or the G-series, contests. Enforcement of the rules is up to the judge of the contest.

It would be my assumption that the "No Pro 1's" refers to the PowerShot Pro 1, PowerShot Pro 90, et al. being specifically included in the equipment list for the G-series Forum.

[nwyman]

I apologise for missing the fact that the winning pic was taken with the G7. I did notice that there were two photos who were not regulation size, and I notified one entrant, who then complied with the rule.

Will now go back and hide under a rock.:oops: