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Very Honorable Mention: Not in an order of relative merit. Joseph Zou. The challenge of this pix is to capture the joy moment of a 15 month old baby. Manual focus to speed up the shot to shot sequence, umbrella for flat lighting with SB-28. Nikon 990.
Marilu Bishop. Water in Midair. Freezing water
acquires a different meaning when flash illumination is used
on the falling wet stuff. Red accent from hand-held flashlight.
Nikon 950.
Andy Lai. Yan. "I challenged myself
to use camera to do the same arts as Picasso used paint
Jerry Allen. Untitled. A rose illuminated with
a home-rigged infrared flash unit.
James Needham. Car Blast at 6:40 am. The exact
way many people feel about flash photography.
Jan Vanhulle. Fill flash plus the electric moment
with long shutter speed. Olympus 3030.
Lisa Young. Still Pink. The texture in this
image is almost edible. Nikon 990.
Y.C. Loh. Friescula. Y.C.'s nephew was
on a comedy streak when captured with a 1/30 sec exposure plus
flash at just the right moment. The shutter speed brought the
background in balance with the action-stopping flash. Nikon 990.
Piet Gispen. Bass Player. Diffuser over flash.
Fuji S1 Pro.
Joanne. Untitled. A strong composition
of color, environmental elements and angles.
Frances. House. The camera flash was only
one of many light sources that bring this image alive.
Tony Donaldson. Projectile. Electronic flash was
born to stop bullets with Edgerton's first "strobe"
units. Tony has mastered the art of triggering the flash within
milliseconds of impact. Nikon 990. Ultra high speed flash.
Zoran Obradovic. Evening in Venezuela. Like a scene
from a Fellini movie.
James Needham. Enhanced Cactus. Fill flash matted
cactus against skyscape plus extensive manipulation in Photoshop
for a painterly quality. Contest Winners: Five images in the Winners' Circle. From technical finesse to the magic of light, these five top my list and bring to each photographer the Custom Labeled eBook and Rollbar Flash Bracket. Rex Steyskal. Drop. Timing. Lighting. Magic. Peter F. Ryczek. Maureen. A slave flash was placed
in an orange glass vase and triggered remotely. Olympus 2500L. Jarrell Conley. Centipede. "Table top photography,
two strobes. The difficult part was keeping the little bugger
in the frame." Nikon 990. James Needham. Banana in a Bind. "Before
eating it for breakfast I just had to shoot it. Main flash direct,
very low and to the right, aimed up a bit. Slave on the left
to the rear aimed up with a red filter." Nikon 990. Petra Holmström. Orange. Blue. Red. Each image
solves a different problem. Each contributes to a unified series
in an unexpectedly original ensemble. Nikon 950. |
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Congratulations to all who entered. Winners are invited to send in their real-world mailing address so we can ship your prizes to you.
With 14 Very Honorable Mentions and 5 prizes, it would seem that if your image didn't make it, sorry, it would appear that yours came in twentieth. Don't feel bad, you are in the company of giants.
I'm proud of the over 280 pictures and for the support and encouragement between photographers around the world as demonstrated on the DPReview.com forum as these images were entered there. You have created a community of interest and shown it at its best.
All photos are the exclusive property of their photographers/copyright holders. For permission to reproduce images, contact the photographers. Email addresses presented are those that accompanied the images into the contest. For Email address update or corrections please contact Peter iNova at inova@digitalsecrets.net
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