Photo contest results!

Wow guys! I honestly didn’t expect this at all. I really loved many of the other photos.. the marshlands, the tit, the mallard, they were all awesome! I wasn’t going to enter but when GB was posting things like “we’re up to 3 entries!” I felt bad that not many people were participating to I wanted to help.

I saw the questions all of you had about the photo and had to bite my tongue. Haha..! Even though it looks like it, it was NOT manipulated or Photoshopped. I’ll explain in response to Art Slinger’s request:

Source? My camera! Hahah. 😀

Location was Armand Bayou Nature Center/Park which is located in Clear Lake/Pasadena/Houston TX (I’m not sure exactly what city it’s in, I lived in Clear Lake and it was just down the road, but I think it’s technically part of Pasadena). http://www.abnc.org/

My camera is a Sony Cybershot 828. It is a digital camera.

My lense is fixed and non-removeable as part of the eletronics extend into it. I wish it was a DSLR as I enjoy SLR cameras much more, but you take what you can get!

Distance? You mean focal distance? I believe I was an infinite.

Focal Length: 7mm
F/2.5
Exposure time 1/30th second
ISO-120
Date taken: 3/7/2004

Now about the crazy green hue…

My camera has a ‘nightframing’ mode. Essentially it has an IR (infrared) sensor in the front and when in this mode it acts like night-vision goggles and enhances the natural light in the scene. The downside is that everything is monotone green. Anyone that has seen night vision goggles or has seen a TV program that shows what it looks like knows what I mean. This photo was taken after the sun had set (you can see a star peeking though the clouds) and the light was very, very low. I didn’t have a tripod so I set my camera on a wooden railing and took the photo of the bayou.

If you want, I have more photos of this area as I frequently went there when I lived in TX…
None of my photos were manipulated (except a little contrast once in a while.. nothing that someone in a darkroom wouldn’t do!). Photo manipulation is a neat artform, but it doesn’t touch my photos. 🙂

http://featherdust.critter.net/photographyhtml/pages/Touch%20the%20Sky.html ( I believe I took this one the same day as “reach”, before the sun went down)

http://featherdust.critter.net/photographyhtml/pages/Silence.html

http://featherdust.critter.net/photographyhtml/pages/Eldaraths%20Sunset.html

I have a few more here too:
http://featherdust.critter.net/photographyhtml/

I hope that answers everyone’s questions!! Thank you all so much, I’m really honored! (I still like the marshlands photo…)

So who took what photos?! 😀

Love your photos Nam!!! Thanks for the links!!! I’m glad you could only enter one in the contest. It would be hard to pick a favorite out of all of those. 😀

Good shooting Nambroth!
Cool that you could get those effects in night mode.
(I’ve shot some indoor shots that way but not with the green cast).
This was my original pick, because of the intense visual, and mood. Though I actually voted for ,”Tufted Tit”, because even with a moderately powerfull telephoto lense , this was excellent work.
And thanks for the tech-data.( lighting and contrst enhancement are normal adjustments, as you said;…usually performed in a darkrooom.)
Great pic. Congrates to you. PM me an address and I’ll send the little guy to you.
As for the remaining shooters, I’d like to hear about your entries as well, please.

Grats Nam!!!! That was one awesomw pic!

Mine was Liberty.

Sadly, I couldn’t give you the info on the camera even if I had wanted….

Obviously it was taken before 9/11 I think it was in 2000 or ealry ’01. My dad, step-mom and I went for a trip to new york, and were out on the ferry to Stanton Island. The picture is grainy because it was an actual photo that I had to scan in. I’m pretty sure the camera wasn’t a digital, and most likely one of the disposable ones. 😆

Who’s photo was Close Encounter? It was one of my favorites.