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10-MAY-2008 kyagudin

Master and his Masterpiece

Singapore

There is a funny story behind this photo. Some months ago a colleague of mine told me about photo competition announced by opening ceremony of a new park - HortPark - here in Singapore. One day I took taxi to visit this park in a lunch time to have a look and to think what I can do there. When I reached the park began to rain, so I spend around an hour sitting in a protected place. When rain finally stopped I had to go back to office having shot ONLY ONE picture. On the coming 2 weekends I was too busy to visit the park and then was the end of the announced time. So I just send then this one picture to the judge and forgot about. You can imagine how deep I was surprised when I was called some days ago and was told that my picture got one of the winner place :-). I was invited to "Prize Giving Ceremony" where I became proud owner of the new Nicon Coolpix L11!

Ladies & Gentlemen - applause please !

Does somebody has any doubts that this is creative use of the flash even if exiff does not show this ? :-)

PS. I posted to Pending an another picture from this ceremony.

Canon EOS 40D
1/60s f/4.5 at 35.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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ctfchallenge15-May-2008 04:18
Dear everybody – thank you very much for your friendly comments.
Handsome face ??? Hmm .. just a few click in Photoshop ... you know :-)

Basically the story is even funnier – I forgot to note one important point. That picture I shot there in a short rain-break was flat and not really interesting. But at those days I found in Scott Kelby’s book 7-Point System how to do water-mirroring. I used my photo to experiment and after some hours working was more or less satisfied with result. Usually just a color correction is allowed on pictures you sent to a photo competition but I decided to send the photo being curious if judge disqualifies my ‘creation’. Result you know :-).
Two additional points here: I checked VERY carefully the printed picture – I knew what and where to look for – but I couldn’t find any tracks of my “improvement”. The pictured looked absolutely natural. And secondly, the printed copy of 10Mb picture looked great even being printed in such a large format.
The guys from judge invited me to participate in a new photo competition ‘Singapore my Home’ – just few days remaining, similar situation, isn’t it ?
Konstantin.
Guest 12-May-2008 14:50
Wonderful! Congratulations Konstantin. Nice and cute story. The photo looks fabulous too, I must say!
I hope you enter and win more of these!
-Cat
ctfchallenge11-May-2008 20:52
Congratulations, Konstantin. It's always nice to hear of someone here winning an outside competition.
ctfchallenge11-May-2008 02:49
Way to go Konstantin. In this picture I like how two light sources show up in your eyes. Two well done's. -COAmature
sue anne11-May-2008 01:31
Congrats and I like this one. :)
ctfchallenge10-May-2008 20:23
very funny, Konstantin and congrats to you!
Penny Street
Canon DSLR Challenge10-May-2008 18:31
Congratulations, Konstantin! A fun story to go with a winning photo.
It's good to see your face, too. Quite a handsome one... we have a handsome group of men here... ~Lydia
ctfchallenge10-May-2008 17:40
Hello there...congrats on your win. -RK