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ShutterTalk Digital Photography Contest April 2016: Blues


Category: Blues
Contest Begins: April 1st, 2016
Contest Ends: April 30th, 2016


**Photos should be taken in the time frame above and include exif data. Entries will be taken until May 3rd to allow time for post processing.

Open To: ShutterTalk Digital Photography Forum Members
Contest Type: International Photography Contest
Prize: Amazon Gift Card (Undisclosed Amount)

Guidelines:

Submit up to three photos of digital photographs. Scenes can include any items which is blue in color or using post-processing to create a blue effect. Use your imagination and be creative!

Images must be posted here in this forum thread and be owned legally by the contributing member. Please also submit information about where the photo was taken along with some brief details.

Digital photography entries should be family friendly and be taken during the month of April 2016.

NEW - Please include the EXIF data along with the photo for confirmation of date picture was taken.

The photograph should be interesting and draw the individual into the scene and have few distractions. We look forward to seeing your photographs!

Judging

Judging will consider different criteria including, but not limited to, creativity, relevance to category, and photo quality. Judging will occur when the contest ends and results will be posted in the forums as soon as possible.

Winning Multiple Times During Monthly Contests - NEW

A member can be chosen as the winner twice within a six month period. This will even the "playing field" to some degree to allow other members the ability to enter their high-quality photographs and have the opportunity to also be chosen as the winner during a new monthly contest theme.

Please refrain from commenting on other's posts in this thread until the contest end date.

How do I upload photos on the forums?

Here are a few threads which should be helpful in uploading photos to the forums. Please feel free to send me a message if you need additional help.

How To Attach Multiple Photos

How To Attach Photos

Letting Others Know about the Contest

We would love to let others know about our contests. We plan to have a contest each month. If you have friends who love photography, please let them know!

If you love social media, please share with your media friends about the contest on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your blogs, everywhere! We would love to have them in here in the forums and be a part of the contests!


Questions?

Please let us know if you have any questions!

To give you some inspiration - take a look here:

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoG...catID=4826

taken on a farm holiday in Lincolnshire

Seems appropriate at this time of the year, taken this morning 5D3 24-105 @35 f16 ISO 100

Wednesday 13th April, just after 6pm in St James Park, walking from Buckingham Palace to Westminster, the dark blue skies contrasted strongly with the lighter blue of the footbridge and the strongly sunlit surrounding buildings and the London Eye.

On reaching Westminster, the Elizabeth Tower on the House of Commons (often known as Big Ben) was lit by the evening sunshine and backed by fairy talk blue sky and white clouds.

[attachment=6150]One of my spider irises. Nikon CoolPix P600; f/4.5; 1/50 sec; ISO-400; 4/14/16’ 10:34 a.m.

Blue

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And Blue Plus.

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Blues brothers

Scotland's Saltire, out of the Blue.

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Taken with my Canon EOS 600D on 27.4.16 at 19.55 hrs.
Camera settings f/6.3, 1/200 sec. ISO 100, 55mm focal length handheld

Taken yesterday from Dawlish beach in Devon. 10 stop filter used for a long exposure.

Taken at a scooter rally in Bristol early April.

Sign pointing to a scooter rally in Bristol City Centre.

Hi all,

My first foray into submitting here.

I was playing around with the white balance, pushed it to the extreme blue and liked the effect. Hope you do so.
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From the above, I was intrigued to see how other images would respond this approach. Rather pleased by the effect and the resulting image.
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Recently, I saw a still life study and decided to try my own composition. Still life in blue.
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A first attempt at using NIK software....

Saturday I went to watch Wycombe Wanders (aka The Blues) play Accrington Stanley....here are some blue shots!

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All shots taken with Canon EOS 7D MkII and 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L MkII

Thank you for each entry into the photo contest!

Congrats to Browser Mike for your winning contribution (post 8b)!

Members - please be sure to check out this month's photo contest!

Very well done Mike, super. Congrats. Cheers. Ed.

Thanks so much, Ed. It has come as a bit of a shock. I am totally delighted.
Cheers, Mike.

Well done that man!

Well done, Mike. Nice image.

Thanks John and John T.
Cheers, Mike.

(May 5, 2016, 11:07)Barbara G. Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you for each entry into the photo contest!

Congrats to Browser Mike for your winning contribution (post 8b)!

Members - please be sure to check out this month's photo contest!

Congratulations on winning the contest. A lovely piece of work
Jane

Thanks very much, Jane. Pleased that you like it.
Cheers, Mike.