Judges: Linda Bryant, Jim Heern and Jim Ingraham (Main Critique Judge)
Electronic Image Competition – Assigned category: Glass
1st Place – Image of the Month
“Garden in Glass” Bobette Heern
1st Place – Tie (x3)
“Cheers” Jan Kloes
The glasses and streamers were shot with a spot light shining on the wall behind them and a softbox to the left. The ‘confetti’ was added using standard Photoshop brushes. The bubbles were from a free downloaded PS brush from Brusheezy. Canon EOS 7D, ISO 100, f/9 at 1/8 sec.
1st Place – Tie (x3)
“Broken Glass, Wine Glass” Jim Ingraham
Nikon D810 with 24-70 mm lens at 70mm. Shutter speed 1/100, aperture f20 and ISO 64. One studio light with a large softbox directly behind subject and slightly above. Wine glass is sitting on a pane of glass that is suspended over a black background on the floor. The shards of glass are colored with food coloring and water.
2nd Place – Tie (x3)
“Window Glass” Curt Collins
2nd Place – Tie (x3)
“Glass Carafe” Debbie Jallit
2nd Place – Tie (x3)
“Phantom Zone Cube” Rose Christner
3rd Place – Tie (x4)
“Broken Dreams” Jim Heern
3rd Place – Tie (x4)
“All the Glitters” Judy Cox
3rd Place – Tie (x4)
“Caprice Sparkle” Nomeca Hartwell
3rd Place – Tie (x4)
“Reflections” Jan Kloes
Print Image Competition – Assigned Category (Glass)
1st Place
“The Bearded One” Jim Ingraham
Nikon D810 with 24-70 lens at 28mm. Hand held. Shutter speed 1/250, Aperture f10 and ISO 200. Subject next to a stained glass window in a church. The window is the sole source of light.
Electronic Image Competition – Open Category
1st Place
“Angie and Jake” Linda Bryant
This is a photo of my friend Angie, we were doing a photoshoot in November and decided to incorporate a few pics with the horses. This was taken with my Canon EOS Mark111, at f/5, 1/320 and ISO 3200 at 70mm. I changed the background and added a Rainy Window Overlay to give it the Rain Effect..
2nd Place – Tie (x2)
“Hard Rock Eye Candy” Dale George
2nd Place – Tie (x2)
“Silent Serenade” Julie Padgett
3rd Place – Tie (x5)
“Inmate” Bobette Heern
3rd Place – Tie (x5)
“Crater Lake in September” Debbie Jallit
3rd Place – Tie (x5)
“Shared Veggies” Greg Smith
3rd Place – Tie (x5)
“Cardinal” Laurie Scaruffi
3rd Place – Tie (x5)
“Reaching to the Light” Ozzie Cummins
Print Image Competition – Open Category
1st Place
“It smells like Heaven” Dale George
Photo was taken in April 2015 at the Bellagio Hotel in fabulous Las Vegas. The reason I gave it the title “It Smells Like Heaven” is that even though you can’t see it, the conservatory was planted wall-to-wall with blooming flowers. The air was light and sweet with the fragrance of the thousands of blooms and to me must be what Heaven smells like.
The challenge with this capture was getting the room perfectly centered with the point of the obelisk and center girder and working the tri-pod forward and backward to get the right balance. Then there are the people….always people…cutting through the scene. They linger, dawdling, putting themselves just where you don’t want them to be. Don’t they care, don’t they know I am waiting?? Eventually the ebb and flow of pedestrian traffic opened briefly long enough to snag a 3 shot exposure.
And now for the details. Camera was my retired Canon T2i Rebel with the 10-22mm lens. Lens was open to 10mm.
ISO set to 100, 1/200th second average exposure, f/6.3 with camera in Aperture Priority.
2nd Place
“Red and Green Spring” Nomeca Hartwell
3rd Place
“Starry Grayback” Nomeca Hartwell