I won a photo contest yipeee!

[darb]

http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/natur ... &password=

[Nnnnsic]

Congratulations dude.

It's a nice image... I'm personally not much into it... but it's still a good images.

[tsanglabs]

Very, Very nice. Congrats on the win.

Looking around I also quite liked the 2nd placed photo, some stiff competition there.

[fozzie]

Well done darb.

I bet that you are

Did you win a Nikon 200-400VR  BTW: I like the shot too.


Cheers,

[darb]

yeh some people say they didnt like the use of coloured grad ND ... but it still won out of 108 pretty good photos

and yeh second place i believe was bloody close ... he submitted late, and tore his way .. over took me for a while.

quite suprised ... its also suprising what people DO like ... some shots i really love didnt get a rating at all,e tc.

[darb]

Well done darb.

I bet that you are

Did you win a Nikon 200-400VR  BTW: I like the shot too.


Cheers,

nah some sotware for photoshop ... looks OK, but id have preferred the VR

[Onyx]

Congrats darb. There's some absolute pearlers as runners up too.

[sirhc55]

Nice ’won’ darb - the competition was very stiff which makes the win even better

Chris

[the foto fanatic]

Well done darb!


Hey darb:
Is it a photography award, or an art award?

[digitor]

Well done Darb,

yeh some people say they didnt like the use of coloured grad ND

I noticed the description says "graduated ND emulation" - does this mean the dark sky effect was *gasp* produced in Photoshop?

Cheers

[Vicareyus]

Nice shot darb. well done and congratulations!
Vic

[coolpix]

Great photo...love the colour...the competition was strong and you did well to win...congratulations

[BBJ]

Well done darb, you have a great collection of pics all are good so yes and that is a great looking picture for sure.
Well done.
Cheers
John

[JordanP]

Well done darb - I love the shot and some very strong competition

Congrats

[brembo]

Congrats, looks like there was some stiff competition from the runners up.

What type of GND filter did you use for the shot?

[MattC]

Well done Darb. Really nice shot.

I finally had a look at your shot and the competition. There was certainly some excellent work in there, so winning against good competition must make it all the better.

Cheers

Matt

[Killakoala]

That's fantastic darb, well done. Great photo too, neat and in the middle, perfect composition The wave just grabs the eye.....

I notice that the runner-up photo was taken on a 300D. Ever so sweet the victory

[darb]

cheers y'all ... and to those that asked abou the grad ND ... it was emulated in CS ... didnt have my cokin set at the time, i originally submitted the original aswell as the photoshopped one, but couldnt resubmit on the photoshoped one as voting had already started, it was getting good feedback so i left it be ... just aswell.

ps if ya dont like the photoshopping of it, dont whinge to me, i dont care, its not someting i do much (mainly coz i have a set of cokin gear anyway and prefer to do it at the time.) ... sick to death of "art vs realism" arguments

thanks for the nice comments, was quite stoked ... if only it was the competition for the nikkor on here! dang!

[Glen]

Congrats Darb, very well done against stiff competition, especially after all the comments you got here on that image

[darb]

ta glen, what do you mean about comments here?

[Glen]

Nothing bad Darb, just a few comments that it would look better cropped, etc. Glad you won with your vision

[mudder]

G'day,
That's a great example of catching the moment... Did you have many goes with previous waves or was it one of those "one-off" type of shots?

Winning against such good competition must give you a buzz... And deserved too...

Cheers,
Mudder