June Photography Competition - The Winners!

[jon-]

Sorry it's a little late, I had a busy day yesterday. There have been lots of great entries this month making the competition extremely difficult to judge - if I'm ever in a position to judge again I think I'm going to choose "the outer Mongolian Badger" as the theme... anyway, onto the winners.

In third place, rasputin with this beautiful Vulcan shot:


The picture is absolutely stunning, and could have easily placed first.

In second place is gary71 with this near perfect Shuttle launch photo


With a 30 second exposure and it's beautiful rich colours I think it's probably technically the best photo, but I had to eventually give the 1st place to the photo that made me grin the most.

The winner is jonnylarge with


I like my photos clean and simple, and this manages to be clean but still show a sense of extreme speed. Love the matt colours too.

Congratulations to everyone, it's been really hard to pick the top 3 and they've all changed places many times. I'm going to have to hit submit now before they change again. jonnylarge, over to you.

[Dogsey]

Congratulations Jonnylarge, great shot.

Well done to those mentioned too, the standard was as high as ever this month.

[nick heppinstall]

Personally I think mine should have won of course

Winners are all fantastic pics. For me the Shuttle launch was the pick of the bunch. I just kept going back to look at it.

After mine of course

Well done to everyone !

What the next subject then !! ?

[gary71]

Cheers for the second place and the positive comments quite happy being beaten by a Eurofighter!

[AJI]

gary71 - turely awesome photo.
I know everyone has their different favourites - the suttle launch wins hands down for me.

[jonnylarge]

Cheers jon-, and Dogsey! Nice surprise for me today...especially as there's some great shots in this month's competition.

There's a bit more info on the snap here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71894657@N00/41007014...

I would say that the secret to the shot was the weather conditions - it was damp and humid giving rise to some great wing-based moisture action!

[Mini1275]

A worthy winner, congratulations all!.

[GregE240]

Great pictures, all worthy.

Guys, as an amateur, if possible could you give us some more info as to shutter speed, aperture if possible? The shuttle night shot is fabulous.

[jonnylarge]

...here's some metadata for mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71894657@N00/41007014...

[jon-]

GregE240 said:

Great pictures, all worthy.

Guys, as an amateur, if possible could you give us some more info as to shutter speed, aperture if possible? The shuttle night shot is fabulous.

Shuttle was 30 seconds, aperture is a moot point, as in long exposures it's combined with ambient light and iso to get the correct exposure so there's no point in copying that.

[Dogsey]

jonnylarge said:

Cheers jon-, and Dogsey! Nice surprise for me today...especially as there's some great shots in this month's competition.

There's a bit more info on the snap here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71894657@N00/41007014...

I would say that the secret to the shot was the weather conditions - it was damp and humid giving rise to some great wing-based moisture action!

So when are we going to see the July comp set then??

[jonnylarge]

Didn't realise that was a benefit of winning, so I've just set it...what do you reckon?

[nick heppinstall]

jonnylarge said:

Didn't realise that was a benefit of winning, so I've just set it...what do you reckon?

Excellent

[gary71]

jon- said:

GregE240 said:

Great pictures, all worthy.

Guys, as an amateur, if possible could you give us some more info as to shutter speed, aperture if possible? The shuttle night shot is fabulous.

Shuttle was 30 seconds, aperture is a moot point, as in long exposures it's combined with ambient light and iso to get the correct exposure so there's no point in copying that.

The exposure on this was a complete guess

I spent the preceding few minutes (as the sun came up) taking 30 second shots all at 200iso (minimum on D300) and varying the aperture to get a good exposure. The sun was rising at the time, the glow being the very first rays from total darkness, so the light was constantly changing. The shuttle was 12 miles away so focussed at infinity and no need to worry about depth of field

I thought there was no point trying to stop the over exposure of the rocket, so went for a perfect sunrise exposure. I was worried that the slightly wobbly wooden pier I was on would ruin a long exposure, but it worked out OK despite the camera hanging a foot off the side and it vibrating under my feet from the launch!

Over than a slight crop to hide the pier this is exactly as it came from the camera.

Once in a lifetime moment to capture, and the benefit of a 30 second exposure is that I could press the button then watch the launch, then press it again when I heard the shutter close!

Thanks again for the positive comments.

[Ross1988]

Rasputin,

Any chance of that for my new desktop background?

Lovely shots, all of them. I just have a particular fancy for Vulcans.