October 2018 Electronic Image Winners

First Place – Assigned Category – Sunset/Sunrise

One First Place Winner

Harris Beach Sunset Jim Ingraham

‘Harris Beach Sunset’ was taken on a summer evening at Harris Beach State Park at sunset. Camera data was Nikon D810 with a Nikkor 70-200 mm lens (before I dropped the lens in the ocean). 1/500th, at f11 and ISO 400. Taken at 200mm.

Second Place

One Second Place Winner

Klamath Sunset Greg Smith

Third Place

One Third Place Winner

Sunrise In The Marsh Don Tedrow

Honorable Mention

Six Honorable Mentions

Solitude Bobette Heern

Let There Be Light Cynthia Briseno

Paradise Jim Heern

Subtle Sunset Ozzie Cummings

Last Rays Of Light Rose Christner

Opposing Colors Ross Steensland

First Place Winners – Open Category

Two First Place Winners

Modoc Night Ross Steensland

Modoc Midnight was taken in the Modoc National Forest on the first of September. I have been dove hunting there my entire life, so I was hoping to capture a photo that visualizes the essence of that region.

I scouted during the daylight until I located the ideal snag, then used my photopills app to identify the Milky Way’s location that night. During the night I light painted the foreground during a 104 second exposure, then shot 29 sky images to stack in Sequator for noise reduction. Both images blended in Photoshop CC.

The Pollinator Rose Christner

This was shot at the Butterfly exhibit in Cave Junction, OR on one of our club field trips this year. It was my first time ever to shoot butterflies, so it was a challenge for me with them constantly moving. Shot with my Canon 80D at 1/1600sec, F5.6, ISO1000, 100mm F2.8 Macro lens with extender. This was handheld and certainly not easy for me to do. I highly recommend going on club field trips with one or more as you will learn something new each time or you can share what you know to help others.