1st Place Place lightship* by Olaf.dk by Canon DSLR Challenge

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lightship*
by Olaf.dk


12-OCT-2005	Olaf.dk

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
1/6400s f/5.6 at 135.0mm iso100 hide exif

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Guest		16-Oct-2005 20:28
Alexei, origin of color is explained in my long comment below.

alexeig		16-Oct-2005 20:05
Really, really nice silouette. I wonder where the background color comes from

Canon DSLR Challenge		15-Oct-2005 19:15
Beautiful shot, amazing color, Olaf. One of my favorites. - CameraShy09

Vikas Malhotra		15-Oct-2005 05:44
Dear Olaf, Yup I think this is much better as the Light Mast is your main subject in this pic. My guess is that all the masts aren't 100% vertical to begin with and hence the difficulty in mainting all of them vertical. Can imagine the glare in the viewfinder from the sun and have to say this is a great shot irrespective. Cheers, Vikas.

Canon DSLR Challenge		15-Oct-2005 03:37
Nice job, I like that you can also just make out what looks like the word 'Restaurant' below the light. Chris

roberta		15-Oct-2005 01:02
Olaf, Great contrasty effect. VERY nice!

Guest		13-Oct-2005 19:07
Thank you Vikas. The background color is the result of an extremely high Kelvin whitebalance setting. Regarding the rotation, if you looked at any other vertical in the shot it was indeed vertical - I don't know why the lightmast seemed to be tilted. To be honest, I'd already rotated this to the position you saw. When I took the photo, the sun was low and weak enough to look at with the naked eye, but once I looked through the viewfinder it was blinding me (tele-lens), so I had to just press the shutter quickly - only spending a split second on composing the shot in the viewfinder. Anyway, since the lightmast is the main subject I have now made that vertical, so now it is the other mast plus other vertical features that have become tilted, but I guess this is better. Ed, thanks again then - nice to have a name with the comment!

Canon DSLR Challenge		13-Oct-2005 17:54
Olaf - that was me. I forgot to leave my name. -Ed Hahn

Vikas Malhotra		13-Oct-2005 08:03
Lovely shot, the b/g is super. Slight tilt to the light mast, easily corrected I think. Cheers, Vikas.

Guest		12-Oct-2005 18:18
Thank you, whoever you are?

Canon DSLR Challenge		12-Oct-2005 12:01
Nice capture, and the near-monochrome appearance is great!