Ultra Wide Angle Landscape

Challenge #5 in the The Creative Light Painter! series. Hosted by nikonboi.

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Let's see your best UWA lens landscape shot. For the purpose of this challenge, please submit entries with a focal length less than/ equal to 24mm. You must have a foreground element of interest and the image must be taken during early morning or late evening. Please do not submit images taken at noon etc. with flat lighting and washed out colors as they will get disqualified. Please READ the rules before submission. Any photo not conforming to the rules, will be disqualified! Thanks.

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Announced:

Friday, 3rd July, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Friday, 10th July, 2009 – Thursday, 16th July, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Friday, 17th July, 2009 – Thursday, 23rd July, 2009 (GMT)

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Capture date rules:

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Additional rules:

The lens focal length must be 24mm or less
ONLY Landscapes (no seascapes)- No people, buildings, fences, animals etc. If there is anything besides landscape in the image, it will be disqualified or simply removed
You MUST have some foreground element of interest. Please don't submit an image where you just have an empty field or a canyon etc with nothing in the foreground. Part of the appeal of an UWA lens is to show depth. Show us images with a strong element of interest in the foreground
Only submit images taken during early morning/ evening light. Avoid flat lighting
Please don't put your signature or any frame around the image
Please don't post snapshots taken from your cellphone etc. Let's see some images where thought has been placed into the composition

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Cakes of Bread

by g0wex

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Weathered gritsone rocks on Blackhole Moor in the Peak District.

Camera:	Olympus E-3
Lens:	7-14mm f4
Submitted:	Sunday, 12th July, 2009 09:13 (GMT)
Taken:
Focal length:	7 mm
Shutter speed:	1/40 sec
Aperture:	F8
ISO:	100
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Total comments: 14

jabba the hut....weird

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VERY cool! :)

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sandrotto wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> do you have this image on flickr by any chance? I would love to add it to my favorites there :-) Wonderful picture!
>
> Sandro
Hi Sandro
Many thanks for your comments,
I don't have the image on a flikr page but I do have it on my wedsite which can be found at:
www.stephenelliottphotography.co.uk

Regards
Steve
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Hi Steve,

do you have this image on flickr by any chance? I would love to add it to my favorites there :-) Wonderful picture!

Sandro

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All around fine shot Steve! Congratulations!

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great photo Steve, congratulations
this is why i bought the 7-14, now just need a masterclass in how to use it!!

Andrew

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RomanJohnston wrote:
> The sky waked up this shot very nicely without relying on a really long explosure to get the lines. I am guessing they are jet contrails....and if that is the case, this is a great example of where they help when so many complain about them being in the picture.
>
> Nice work and grats on the win.
>
> Roman
Thanks Roman
contrails can be the curse for landscape photographers but sometimes you can get lucky and make the most of them, the perspective created by using the UWA lens helps in this case, considering that 'the Cakes of Bread' sit directly under the flight path to Manchester airport you can't do that much to avoid them

Cheers Steve
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http://www.stephenelliottphotography.co.uk

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Thanks to all for your comments and to anyone that voted, I would have replied earlier but have only just discovered them!!

Cheers
Steve
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http://www.stephenelliottphotography.co.uk

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Tonio1 wrote:
> Excellent picture!!!!!!
>
> Sorry for my ignorance but what country or state is that place?
Hi Tonio
Thanks for your comments,
This shot was taken in the Peak District national park in Derbyshire England
Regards

Steve

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http://www.stephenelliottphotography.co.uk

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Another fantastic shot of your favourite area, come to think of it it's one of mine too but my shots are never a patch on yours. Even when we were standing next to each other, you certainly work some magic with that camera.

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Excellent picture!!!!!!

Sorry for my ignorance but what country or state is that place?

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The sky waked up this shot very nicely without relying on a really long explosure to get the lines. I am guessing they are jet contrails....and if that is the case, this is a great example of where they help when so many complain about them being in the picture.

Nice work and grats on the win.

Roman

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a scene from Terragen (Planetside)... the planet/world simulator ...

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The E-3 doing what is does best coupled with a great lens.

Super image.

Regards. Barr1e

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