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09/15/2004 02:30:41 AM · #1 |
| I was just wondering, does anyone else have trouble seeing the winning backlight photo as backlit? Please don't think I am bashing the picture. I think it is a great shot and I gave it a very high score. I was just looking at the shadows, and I can tell that light is coming from the top and the side, but I don't really see anything from the back. If you guys see something I don't, please point it out for me. Thanks. |
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09/15/2004 02:49:19 AM · #2 |
| I agree with you on the light source direction. I believe a lot of voters were kind to top/back light voting (and I must admit I was on of them). With that said I think the picture is very good, interesting, and the subject was different. Congratulations go out to the blue ribbon photographer and it looks like it was on the first challenge entry. Has that happened before? |
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09/15/2004 03:01:18 AM · #3 |
Yes and no, while it does look like most of the light is from the top, part of the shell does look transparent. Also the end result resembles example 3 shown here: backlighting examples, (from a different thread)
Interesting to note, first challenge, first place. Very nice.
Message edited by author 2004-09-15 03:02:52.
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09/15/2004 03:04:36 AM · #4 |
| Any light source which originates farther from the camera than the subject's coronal plane (bisects the subject in a plane parallel to the film/sensor plane) would seem to me, by definition, to be "backlit." If the shadow is in front of the subject (look at the top curve of the shell) it is, by definition, backlit. |
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09/15/2004 03:05:43 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by jadin:
Interesting to note, first challenge, first place. Very nice. |
Not that uncommon a phenomenon ... a few percent anyway. |
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09/15/2004 03:46:43 AM · #6 |
I think it is the greatest reward and the supreme joy to enter for the first time in a contest and win it. I think it is a dream of many photographers. Right now, my dream is at least finish top 10 :) (but still dreaming for the Blue lol)
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09/15/2004 06:49:02 AM · #7 |
| I think it's a great photo and it was the one that I picked to win. And that's the second time I've picked the winner out of the three challenges I've entered. (The other one was a top ten finisher). |
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09/15/2004 07:56:32 AM · #8 |
And it won by a frickin' landslide!
1st place - 7.407
2nd place - 6.806
Beautiful picture! |
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09/15/2004 08:00:20 AM · #9 |
| It is a lovely picture an congrats to the first time entry first time winner. My goal is still to break 6.0, so who am I to judge. Thanks everyone. |
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09/15/2004 08:09:10 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by dartompkins:
It is a lovely picture an congrats to the first time entry first time winner. My goal is still to break 6.0, so who am I to judge. Thanks everyone. |
By the way, I didn't construe your comment as "bashing" by any means. I think it was an honest questions and I wonder a little a bit about that, too.
I didn't vote on this challenge, but I think that since it's difficult to determine whether to consider this backlit or not I would have just let myself be impressed and given this a 9. |
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