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Low Light: Wild Animals

Challenge #1 in the Low Light series. Hosted by alaska_tim.

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Many animals are most active at dawn, dusk or even the dead of night. This makes photography of their activities difficult. Show us your best low light capture of wild animals in action. Please consider both the artistic quality of the photographs entered and how challenging the lighting was in creating the photograph when rating images.

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Announced:

Thursday, 29th April, 2010 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 6th May, 2010 – Wednesday, 12th May, 2010 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 13th May, 2010 – Wednesday, 19th May, 2010 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Please be judicious in post. Basic processing only.
No frames, borders or watermarks.
No surrealism.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

The animal must be the main subject, shot outside, preferably in its natural environment. So please no shots of sunrises or sunsets (or anything else) where animals are little more than decoration.
In the description, please indicate the month or season, and time of day the photo was taken. Shots taken during normal daylight hours will be disqualified.
No extreme artificial light. Please be judicious. The theme of this series is low light; too much artificial light negates this.
No silhouettes.
No pets.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

150

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by AshbyJohnson

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This shot was taken at Grey Lodge Waterfowl Mgt Area in Central CA. I took the photo on January 23 2010 at 6:08pm. My daughter and I were heading back to the truck when he caught our eyes, it was just to perfect to pass up.

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D
Lens:	Canon EF100-400 with a Canon 2X extender
Submitted:	Friday, 7th May, 2010 05:39 (GMT)
Taken:	Saturday, 23rd January, 2010
Focal length:	800 mm
Shutter speed:	1/50 sec
Aperture:	F11
ISO:	400
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Chato

Chato wrote:
>
> sef3rd wrote:
> > This really isn't a sillouette if you take a close look. You can make out the heron's eyes and other details. If a fill-in flash was used it may make it more interesting but it is still a neat photo.
>
> If you actually look at the large size, you will find that there's enough noise to open a band. Aside from being a bit out of focus, there's a weird black border around the image.
>
> Not a bad shot, I would have rated it a 2.5, maybe a 3.0. here were Many shots much better than this one.

Retract this last statement below...
> Personally, I think the organised cheaters screwed up on this one. They were handing out so many .5's to really good shots, that they didn't bother to hand one to this.
>
> Dave
>

May 22, 2010permalink

Chato

sef3rd wrote:
> This really isn't a sillouette if you take a close look. You can make out the heron's eyes and other details. If a fill-in flash was used it may make it more interesting but it is still a neat photo.

If you actually look at the large size, you will find that there's enough noise to open a band. Aside from being a bit out of focus, there's a weird black border around the image.

Not a bad shot, I would have rated it a 2.5, maybe a 3.0.

There were Many shots much better than this one. Personally, I think the organised cheaters screwed up on this one. They were handing out so many .5's to really good shots, that they didn't bother to hand one to this.

Dave

May 22, 2010permalink

sef3rd

This really isn't a sillouette if you take a close look. You can make out the heron's eyes and other details. If a fill-in flash was used it may make it more interesting but it is still a neat photo.

May 21, 2010permalink

Ed at Ridersite

> wonderful shot really

Yes, a very nice shot. However, the rules say "No silhouettes."

May 20, 2010permalink

thierry a crolles

wonderful shot really

May 15, 2010permalink

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