Competition closed, I even have the results....
First off, apologies to all: I understand that this was a difficult one...too crowded, difficult zones of lighting and colour temperature.
As to judging, I eliminated all entries where the snow patch was too blue (colour balance not right). Some of You were smart enough to either crop it out, or turn it into black and white.
Darek (@Zapp DJR), I don’t understand the red (Japanese?) sign...Furthermore, Your fog is IMO unrealistic (look at the border between the fog and the tree).
Richard (@RichardC), nice crop, nice B/W but why the light rays in the top left corner?
Robert (@Robert Davidson), I don’t use Aurora anymore, I find it tends to oversaturate way too much. I reverted to Photomatix Pro and mainly use its “Fusion” settings’
Final results:
#3 B/W entry from Bo (@BosseBe)
#2 Lyle (@WhidbeyLVR): very pleasing overall, but the water was really more brown (and yes, Your preferred second place
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#1 Rob Rider (@Rob Rider)entry #1: I also prefer this tight crop, I even cropped out the tree completely.
Over to You, Rob!
First off, apologies to all: I understand that this was a difficult one...too crowded, difficult zones of lighting and colour temperature.
As to judging, I eliminated all entries where the snow patch was too blue (colour balance not right). Some of You were smart enough to either crop it out, or turn it into black and white.
Darek (@Zapp DJR), I don’t understand the red (Japanese?) sign...Furthermore, Your fog is IMO unrealistic (look at the border between the fog and the tree).
Richard (@RichardC), nice crop, nice B/W but why the light rays in the top left corner?
Robert (@Robert Davidson), I don’t use Aurora anymore, I find it tends to oversaturate way too much. I reverted to Photomatix Pro and mainly use its “Fusion” settings’
Final results:
#3 B/W entry from Bo (@BosseBe)
#2 Lyle (@WhidbeyLVR): very pleasing overall, but the water was really more brown (and yes, Your preferred second place
#1 Rob Rider (@Rob Rider)entry #1: I also prefer this tight crop, I even cropped out the tree completely.
Over to You, Rob!