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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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Sunset mist, Iceland

by Pete Chipman

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Shot at about 11:30PM Two horses were grooming each other as a fog rolled in over a pasture I was driving through at sunset. They paid no attention to me as I quietly walked near them and shot a few frames.

Camera:	Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Lens:	85mm
Submitted:	Friday, 7th May, 2010 09:25 (GMT)
Taken:	Saturday, 1st July, 2006
Focal length:	85 mm
Shutter speed:	1/15 sec
Aperture:	F1.8
ISO:	100
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