Monthly Photo Contest "Post your best Landscape Shot"
Posted on: Sun, 05/04/2008 - 4:26am
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Monthly Photo Contest "Post your best Landscape Shot"
AlphaMountWorld is now conducting its second Monthly Photo Contest (thank you to all that participated in our very first!).
The theme for this contest is Landscape Photography. This contest is open to all Sony and Konica Minolta users for digital or film images. There have been quite a few excellent landscape shots already submitted in our forums, so I know the talent is out there! Don't be shy, submit a photo and see if you can win!
Rules are simple:
1. Submit a photo in this forum post* from an A-Mount camera only (we trust you), film or digital.
2. Your image you submit must of course be your own original work.
3. Landscapes shots are self explanatory, architecture doesn't count! Landscapes are defined as a vista of natural scenery, so the more natural the subject matter, the more points you are going to score.
4. One photo per person please.
5. You agree to let us possibly display a local copy on our site with photo credit to you. We'd of course remove it at your request at any point.
*Please make your entry no larger than 1152x860 and try to keep the file size down, thank you.
The contest will start May 7, and run through June 4. At which time we will then start a new contest and announce the winners within one week after the contest end date.
Good luck to you all, I am looking forward to all of your wonderful photographs. Our first contest went pretty well, lets see if we can get even more entries this time around!
Any Contest Questions please feel free to contact us via Personal Message or the Contact form anytime!
Note: You must be Registered to post images and participate in the contest.
Sincerely, Eric and Carl
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Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
Posted this one a few weeks ago...still stands as one of the best Landscapes (night or day) that I have ever taken...
Thanks,
Hapster
Boat House Row
"That's why its called fishing...if it was easy they'd call it catching. What fun would that be?"
A100 / A700+Grip: Sony 18-70, Minolta: 20/2.8, 50/1.7, 35-70/4, 70-210/4(Beercan), 75-300/4.5-5.6(Big Beercan), Sigma: 50/2.8 Macro. HVL56, other assorted junk...
It is an old one that I took with the Maxxum 7 and Tokina 19-35.
Shot at Letchworth State Park in NY
Converted Reala to B&W with PSCS3.
Sony A700, A300
Maxxum 7, Maxxum 5, Maxxum 70, Maxxum 5000
Sigma 17-35/2.8-4.0 EX DG, 24-70/2.8 EX DG Macro
Minolta 24-50/4, 35-70/4, 70-210/4, 24/2.8, 300/4 G
Sony 18-70 Kit
more @ www.flickr.com/photos/andrek65
One I took while trying out my A350.
The older I get the better I used to be.
My family went bird watching in Chester, N.J. It was cold and foggy and I noticed these two trees on a foggy background. I used my Sony A200 DSLR with the Minolta Maxxum AF 80-200 f2.8 G lens on an Aperture Priority.
Is getting interesting very quickly. I guess Landscapes are a popular choice!
Carl
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
~Serving up Reviews and other little Appetizers~
This spring is called The Champagne Pool,being 65m in diameter and 62m deep. Its surface temperature is 74 degC. It is filled by deeper streams which are heated by magma left from early eruptions. Minerals contained in the water are gold, silver, mercury, sulphur, arsenic, thallium, antimony and are presently depositing unbelievable color and texture in the surrounding sinter ledge. Orange is due to Antimony and Sulphur. The place is real wonderland, it is called Wai-O-Tapu and is in the vicinity of Rotorua, New Zealand.
Sony A100+SAL18250, RAW file, minimum processing
Wai-O-Tapu, April 2008
Nick
St. Louis, MO
This is 1 of the 7 remaining water towers in the US.
α100
Sony 50mm 1.4f
Sony 100mm 2.8f macro
Zeiss 16-80mm 3.5-4.5f
Minolta 70-210mm f4
Sony 56AM flash
http://www.pbase.com/emmanuelg/image/96788246
These two trees caught my attention with the foggy background when we went bird watching at Chester, NJ. I used my Sonly Alpha A200 with the Maxxum AF 80-200 HS 2.8 G lens using the Aperture Priority.
Good luck with this contest.
You are going to need it. I already saw some very good images.
Hubert
Hubert
A100 & A700, kitlens, Minolta 50, 1.7, Sony 50, 1.4
sigma 28-70, 70-300, 105
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubertploeg/
www.hubertploeg.blogspot.com
I may try to post something, but this means that I would have to go out to actual nature!
Before I mention my concerns, let me clarify that I'm not saying there is anything wrong with nature. My wife and I are very pro-nature. For example, my wife buys specially formulated bird food to put in the the 7 to 10 bird feeders located around our house. We do this so we can regularly feed our slightly obese squirrels. As a matter of fact, we feel that our resident family of fat little squirrels would probably go hungry if we didn't give them this specially formulated bird food.
Plus I think it's kinda' cute the way the squirrels wait to be feed. They sit back on their hind legs and rest their front paws on their little pudgy bellies - very cute - they look like tiny NASCAR fans waiting for more beer. So, you can see, we are pro-nature.
At this point, you may conclude that I have a lawn, that I must tend to the lawn, and some consider lawns to be natural. You are half correct. I do have a lawn, but I believe we have undocumented workers tending to the lawn. However, I'm not really sure, 'cause we contract with the lawn service through the internet. We find it's cheaper to hire them, than pay for the gas to put in my lawnmower.
Also, as you know, Carl clearly stated no architecture - so a panoramic of my dandelion garden with my house in the background isn't appropriate. (My lawn service is very good at cultivating dandelion lawn cover.)
Anyway, I mention all of this because ... um..... it's that I'm a bit nervous about going out into actual nature.
Here are just a few of my questions and concerns: How long can I be exposed to actual nature before something happens to me? Will my blackberry have a signal? If I were to get over exposed to actual nature, are there readily available antidotes? Do these natural places have the good Starbucks with wi-fi hotspots? Or, do they have just the small Starbucks, the ones with out the wi-fi hotspots? Importantly, do any of these natural places have partnerships with any airlines? I want to, at least, get some airline miles out of this endeavor.
Any advice is welcome.
.
b shaw
http://bshaws.blogspot.com/
* see item #3 in the rules above :)
Carl
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
~Serving up Reviews and other little Appetizers~
I enjoy trying to select a photo for the contest, looking at the one's I have thinking, what would Eric & Carl like. Well here you go bet I picked the wrong one lol.
Sony A200 kit lens plus 18-250 on order
A beautiful scene I saw in Korea... the sun was only shining at one spot at that time. Happened only for a few seconds
You sound like you must work in I.T.! I think you'd be right at home in the city where I work, there are four starbucks within about a 1/4 mile of my building(not to mention still more only 3/4 mi away), I think it's illegal to no have a bluetooth headset or blackberry, more wifi bombarding you than you can shake a stick at etc etc...I think you'd feel quite..natural :-D
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
I am going to throw this one up. It has got mixed reactions from people before. But, I just like the light. Very overcast, then the sun broke through. I spotted the farmer walking his cattle on the beach, I had little time to set things up, just ran down onto the beach..and took the shot. If you are wondering why it is ISO 800, thats me not changing my camera!
Not a shot that relies on colour, and not sure I am 100% happy with it, but I never am!
State Gallery of Bulgaria (3) - Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Picture taken with Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D Camera and Sigma 10-20mm F/4-5.6 EX DC Wide-Angle Zoom Lens at 10mm focal length, F/11, and 1/500 sec exposure time. ISO speed set at 200. Metering Mode Center Weighted Average.
Sony Alpha 700 DSLR + Vertical Grip|Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D DSLR + OwnUser Vertical Grip|Konica Minolta AF 28-75 f2.8 (D) Zoom Lens|Konica Minolta AF 18-70 f3.5-5.6 (D) Zoom Lens|Minolta AF 50 f1.7 Prime Lens (2 qty - Original & RS)|Minolta AF 70-210 f4 Telephoto Zoom Lens|Sigma APO 100-300 f4 EX DG Telephoto Zoom Lens|Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6 EX DC Wide-Angle Zoom Lens|Sigma 24-135 f2.8-4.5 Aspherical IF Wide-Angle Telephoto Zoom Lens|Sigma 1.4X EX DG Teleconverter|Sony HVL-F56AM Flash|Minolta 3600 HS(D) Flash (2 qty)|Slik Pro 340DX A.M.T. Tripod|Slik Pro Pod 600 A.M.T. Monopod|Tamrac Expedition 5 Back Pack
Hello Alphamount friends,
Here is my entry. Hope you will like it.
Alpha 700, CZ 1680 at 24mm, 1/500, f10, manual exposure, dro advanced auto.
Sony Alpha 700
CZ 16-80
M 50 1.7
M 70-210 4
Tamron 55-200
F56Am flash Sony
b shaw: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/09/24/
Disney's Animal Kingdom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drinkinginaa/
a300
Taken June of 07, second day with my A100 on my trip.
Glad to have you here, and nice a100 entry I might add :)
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
Nice to have you here. I like the entry, very pretty, and I would not have guessed 10mm.
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
and nice composition. But it looks awful cold. Hope you were wearing your long Johns.
and nice composition,but it looks awful cold. I hope you were wearing your long Johns.
I pays to rise before the sun.
What a grand entrance ;).
Carl
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
~Serving up Reviews and other little Appetizers~
Actually being from Daytona Beach FL and going to Rotorua NZ you'd think I'd have been cold but had shorts, sandals, sweatshirt, and my A100 with 18-200 kit. I've tried to run it through photoshop to make it better but it makes it worse so that is the untouched jpeg. Thanks for having such a contest and glad I could put my pic from the little A100 up against the big boys with the A700.
Brad
I'm pretty much new here. Couldn't figure out how to register as the mails never got to my msn account. Only after some digging did I notice that you needed an ISP type email address.
This was taken with an Alpha 100 with the old Minolta 100-300 lens (that's 400mm equivalent). It was over a mile away for sure. Aperture priority, I set it down to a large F stop number to keep it in focus as the camera hunted a bit. Super steady shot on, ISO set to 100. Take deep breath and shoot between heartbeats.
No retouching, this is how it came out. I don't shoot RAW yet. Should I? :)
Sony Alpha-100 & Minolt Maxxum 7 35mm with VC-7 and HS5600D Flash
Sony 16-105 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 50mm 1.4 +
Minolta 100-300 3.5-5.6 + Minolta 28-85 Macro 3.5-4.5
Tamron 19-35 3.5-4.5
On the subject of raw, I think it's to your advantage on the A100, though not 100% necessary. If you were using A700 my opinion is there's even less of a distinction between its best jpeg setting and raw, but you're not.
There's a lot of debate in general on this subject, if you'd like to get into it more perhaps post in one of the other forums about it?
thanks for your entry
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef