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As most of You take snaps either of people or places below is a link to completely different part of photography world - wildlife. This year competition was tough (as always is :)) and below is my favorite picture, although not a winner. As I assume most of You probably never heard about this competition, but Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year is to wildlife photographers something like Academy Award for actors.
Wonderful site, thanks for this hint adamz. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/
This one seamed something you would like:
Actually I entered the young section of it. Unbelievable photos, none of them mine :^(
I always tell myself "Maybe this year..." Yah right!
Did you notice the winning photo of the wolf jumping over the gate was taken with an old Hasselblad 503CW and fujichrome film. The camera settings are listed at 1/30 sec at f11; ISO 50?! Yet the wolf is caught perfectly still in mid air?
It looks like they used a strobe-flash type of method.
You know what really gets on my nerves? This <10 year old used a D3 with the 500mm ƒ/4! http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/photo.do?photo=2539&category=19&group=2 Now how am *I* supposed to compete with that?!
Well yeah I know he used a strobe but what I meant was that he got the shot with an "old" manual focus film camera and captured the wolf perfectly in mid air. He apparently had the camera set up with an infrared trigger which set off everything. Very interesting. I'd love to see an actual print. I can see why this was chosen as the winning entry. Great photo and fascinating technique.
alpha - I was also pissed about that, moreover would love to see who was operating this camera, as I cannot imagine that a kid with the age below 10 can handhold around 6kg of equipment and get a decent shot
I would more likely love to see ME behind that setup ;^)
He probably used his dad or mom's camera and tripod. I see that all the time. I'd take my kid "hunting" but with a camera. In fact let's ask bmxdad, he takes his kid with him shooting I think?
It's so not fair to kids like me. Last year on the yearbook committee there was a kid who was carrying 1D(S)'s and L lenses because both his parents were photographers. I thought that this would be someone my age who I can actually have an intelligent conversation with about photography. I talked to him, and he was clueless about photography and his equipment—he said "My dad taught me how to turn it on, focus, and take a picture. He told me to stay away from the other stuff."
I'll be honest, I was extremely jealous of the kid, and we didn't get along very well. I know, I know, it was Canon stuff but still.
Well you shouldn't be jealous of him alpha. Instead you should have offered to teach him what you know about photography. If his parents are photographers and they owned a studio or something you could have learned a lot too. Even if it was canon gear it's still photography. The more cameras you learn from the better.
Hey what does your school use for equipment? Your not using your D300 are you?
Well there were other factors too. He was the editor in chief of the yearbook that year, which was actually something new we were doing with the new supervising teacher. The thing that bothered me was that HE seemed to out of the blue. I was working alongside kids who had done yearbook all three years, yet it was that kid's FIRST year! And also, I don't think our personalities matched well anyway.
You're right, I'm just making excuses, but that's how it happened. Remember I was using a D70 back then with my crappy sigma lenses. Maybe if we had gotten along better I could have "borrowed" his stuff once in a while :^)
Errr...on special days. Usually when I'm shooting sports or something like that. But actually on a day-to-day basis I use my D70. The school doesn't have any cameras. The last one broke today. I was sitting in homeroom when two 7th graders come to me with a camera. They told me it's not working. I look and see that the color is messed up. Not a white balance or LCD problem, something different. The pictures looked infrared. I'm cracking up as we walk to the supervisor's room until I realize how bad the situation is: that was our LAST camera. There was a big French student event that day, and I was not happy about it not being covered.
The cameras were something from HP, around 6mp, take or give. All I know is that they were really, really crappy.
Do you have any recommendations for new ones? They yearbook is actually quite profitable, so we can afford new cameras. Problem is nobody's doing anything about it.
Sounds like the sensor gave up the ghost. That's what happens when the sensor starts to die. You get strange weird photos. HEY take a picture and post it in the "Ghost Photo" thread ;^)
Replacement cameras really depend on the budget. Usually schools don't want to spend the money even if they have it. They'll want it for something else. :^( But even if they say yes they usually have accounts with only certain venders. So you'll get money for new cameras but they have to be purchased from a place like office depot or something like that because that's where the school has an account. So then your stuck with HP cameras all over again :^(
But if your teacher is lucky to have the freedom to purchase from amazon or something then I say go for two or three D3000s with kit lenses and at least a 50mm lens and or 18-200mm. Remember it's not about what you want to have it's about what the other kids/teachers can use to get the job done if they don't have any photo experience.
D3000s? Are you serious?
That's going to be better than the camera's the kids bring from home! Having expensive stuff like that running around with these kids makes me nervous...It's not a photography club. It's a club kids join 'cause they've been rejected from everything else ;^)
But I think that's excessive. Anyway, we only have around $600-800. I mean then everybody will want to use the school's cameras, and we will have the usual shortage since they'll break them fighting over who gets to use them first!
I was thinking more in the low-end point and shoot area, something like an S220. Oh well, every year they say they'll get new cameras, yet it never happens.
S220?! *facepalm* there you see how that works :^)
I've seen yearbook staff with 5DmkII's and D200/300's so it could happen.
I got it now. Thanks. I liked the tiger picture, did you find it in the competition? *facepalm* It was a lion! :^)
The Veolia competition? lol, no just google, but a picture of a lion doing a facepalm sure would have beaten that wolf jumping the gate :^)
The guy who took the wolf shot said that he had been planning it for years...even had the comp sketched out on paper...no telling how many times he tried and failed to get that shot...not to mention not actually being there when he did get it....I'm too old to have that much patience.
Hi Niko, Alpha yes I take my Son out and he is shooting, but this Canon is going on the block
Pete
That's great photo Pete. He's going to really appreciate it when he's older. Is that the 40D and 70-200 f4? How do you like that lens?
It is a 40D and a 70-200 2.8 none IS, and to honest the more I use my Nikon D300 with the 70-200 2.8 VR the less I like this Canon setup. It is getting ready to be sold, but maybe I should keep it and get that Ghostly 7D and sell my D300/70-200 2.8 VR
Pete
He's 9, right? I remember when I was his age...I had a Coolpix 3100. It learned a lot about composition at that age—I won my first competition as well, got my photo in the town newspaper.
Yes He is 9 and is getting better, he has a habit of not always getting his pictures 100% level. When the 40D is gone, he can use my D80 and a smaller lens more suitable for his size, maybe a 55 - 200 VR lens
I don't think I have ever even taken a picture before I was 16 yrs old with my first camera: Canon AE-1
pete
pete - I think Your son is very lucky, I got my first "true" camera when I was 19. Before that time I was using only compacts. But the times were different in this part of the world during my childhood.
I've been lucky too that I've been my family's official photographer since the age of about 7 or 8. In fact after about 12 it's rare to find any pictures of me in the family albums because I was the one always taking pictures!
Shutterdancer I read that info too. The guy must have gone crazy trying to get the photo of a wolf jumping the gate. Might explain why he stopped trying with a Nikon and switched to a Hassy. I just can't understand how he got that picture. If the wolf was totally wild wouldn't he have just gone through the openings of the gate? Why would a wild wolf jump over a gate like that?
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