June 2009 Photo Competition: Entries

[Frank Lopes]

Due to a mistake on my part, the entries for this month's competition were accidentally deleted.
I sincerely apologise for the mistake and beg you to please repost any photos that you might have submitted.

Frank Lopes
Moderator




June Photo Competition

Theme:

• Landscape
  Selected for Algarve Images, the competition winner for the month of May

Entry Period:

• June 2, 2009 to June 27 6:00pm EST

Voting Period:

• June 27, 2009 to June 30 6:00pm EST

Discussion Period:

• June 2, 2009 to June 30 6:00pm EST

Voting Tabulation:

• Vote for the 3 entries you like the best by considering how well it fits with the chosen theme and how well the technical details were handled.

• Votes are weighted to give greater weight to First Place votes than to Second and greater weight to Second than to Third place votes:
  • First Place 4 points
  • Second Place 2 points
  • Third Place 1 point

• In case of a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "first place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "second place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person with the most "third place" votes

• If there is still a tie, first place will be giving to the person that first posted his/her entry

• The winner will be notified via retouchpro.com's private messaging and will choose a subject for the following month.

Tips & Rules:

• Be sure to make your entry as large as possible within the forum's restriction.

• Each member may submit only one entry for this competition but you may change your entry up until the deadline.

• The usual "copyright" requirements apply. You must have shot the picture or have the rights to it. Honour system applies.

• Since this is a learning forum, we'd love to have the technical details: shutter speed, ISO, f-stop etc.

• This is NOT the forum for photo art filters or art programs and this is NOT the place to showcase your abilities with layers, masks, collages or overlays of multiple images.

• Entries may be deleted if they do not meet criteria.

• The winner gets to choose the next assignment PLUS all the accolades that come from being chosen "Winner".

• Please post your photo submissions without commentary and instead use the Discussion thread for comments on your photo or other photographer's photos.

• All RetouchPro members may take part in the competition and all members may vote, whether they have submitted an entry or not.

[Janet Petty]

Too funny Frank. I have moments like this one all the time. It is nice to see someone else have a hiccup of the fingers for a change. No harm. No foul. No problem.

As I stated in the previous entry, I'm actually on my way to Utah's Canyonlands next week for more photo ops, but sadly, will be without a computer for the rest of the month. Therefore, I'm submitting one from Canyonlands two years ago.

F-8
Shutter speed - 160th
ISO - 100
70 mm on a 24-105 mm
Canon 40D

Enjoy,

Janet

[Southbay]

10mm DX w/polarizer, 1/320 @ f:9. LaCloche Mountains, northern Ontario, Canada.

[friiskiwi]

Canon Powershot Pro 1, 1/125 f 3.2
Rainbow Ski field, after it closed for the season. South Island, New Zealand

[philbach]

Nikon D-70; ISO-200; F 6.7; 1/180th; 18mm focal length. I did not use Tone Mapping on this entry.

This Photo was taken in Wisconsin north of Port Washington on a golf course that has just been converted to a state park

[Veralisa]

This landscape is of Wangum Falls outside of Hawley, Pennsylvania. The Pana FZ18 was set to auto which recorded it at 125s@f.8. Try as I might I was unable to get much contrast into the big white cloud.

[Algarve Images]

This was taken on the way to El Chorro, Antequera district, north Malaga.
The lake is most unusual being turqoise, the only problem was, parking so it was a case of jump out, point / pray and leap back into car before being mown down by a herd of speeding spanish goats

Raw/Capture One converter
ISO 200
F:11
1/250
FL: 70mm

[CathyH]

I took this a couple of weeks ago, and stitched it together. It was hand held, and I was hoping for better light, but we didn't have time to wait or come back. This is Deadmans Hill near Petoskey in northern Michigan.
Nikon D40
18-55mm lens
set to Auto

[shamrock2008]

Hi,
Here is my entry.
Its taken on the Canadian side of Niagara falls at dusk !
I particularly like the Building near the bottom right !
Its not really had anything done to it in photoshop !

[swarbees]

Taken on the way down from Haleakala
This one is older so I don't have the exposure info
taken with Nikon 8800

[antidoten]

The panorma is taken 2009-05-26 when i recently was in China. The photo shows a landscape with large rice fields and the well known "sugar hills" near the Li river.

Place: Yangshou, China (South-west part)

The photograph is captures with Nikon D80.
Focus Length: 27 mm
F: 6.3
Exposure: 1/1000
ISO: 250

[Flotsam]

Hokitika, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

[Frank Lopes]

Entry period is closed