MINI Camera and Video Interested in capturing your motoring experience? Discuss here your favorite video and photography skills using your MINI.
View Poll Results: vote for your favorite photo that best represents the topic: natural light
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photo 2
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photo 3
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12.90%
photo 4
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1.61%
photo 5
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photo 6
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14.52%
photo 7
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3.23%
photo 8
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8.06%
photo 9
33
53.23%
photo 10
2
3.23%
photo 11
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0%
photo 12
2
3.23%
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Poll // March 2009 // Natural Light

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Old 03-27-2009, 09:32 PM
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Poll // March 2009 // Natural Light

March is the 51st NAM Monthly photo contest. The topic was "natural light" and we had 12 entries.

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted.

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Old 03-28-2009, 09:56 AM
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Nice job, all photogs.
 
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Old 03-28-2009, 08:06 PM
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Pretty good turn out this month! Nice job people.
 
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Ahhhh there were two that I really liked, but I had to go with my heart.

Great shots. Good luck everyone!
 
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Oh golly gee whiz, which one do I favor?
 
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I LOVE #3! but in my haste I voted for the wrong one. Who shot #3? Although the winning pic was very well done, the "sunset" shots are pretty common around here.

Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challange I'm sure. That was what I wanted to shoot but we had rain when the full moon came around.
Several other shots had nothing to do with "natural light" what so ever....

All and all, it was great to see so many entries!
...wonder what the next topic will be?
Can I request maybe "Rain" (got plenty these days)
 
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Old 04-02-2009, 09:15 AM
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Congrats to the winner!

I also wanted to give props to #3. I have a "thing" for the moon, and I thought your photo was lovely.
 
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where is the one for april? how do you enter?
 
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April must be late. Too much "april fooling".
 
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Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
I LOVE #3! ... Who shot #3? ...
Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challange I'm sure. That was what I wanted to shoot but we had rain when the full moon came around.
Originally Posted by LadyGodiva
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I also wanted to give props to #3. I have a "thing" for the moon, and I thought your photo was lovely.
#3 was mine. Thanks for your comments and interest - appreciated. I wanted to try to make the "natural light" the subject of the photo, so I chose to include the moon (just to be different to sunset shots ). The problem was going to be that the moon had to be behind to MINI to get it in the photo, which meant the car would have been in silhouette. So I chose the full moon not just because it is bright, but because it always rises at sunset - I had a second source of natural light on the other side of the sky. What's illuminating the MINI is actually the last light of twilight, except for the lunar reflections off the hood.

FYI the photo was 1.6 seconds (the camera worked out f2.8 and ISO 800 for that). Afterwards I boosted the saturation to bring out the colour in the MINI and foreground a bit better - made the sky bluer too, which I liked.
 
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Originally Posted by itsminibtch
where is the one for april? how do you enter?
Originally Posted by TwOMINIs
April must be late. Too much "april fooling".
It will be posted up later today. Sorry, NAM was down at 5am PST and that's when it should've been done.

I'll crack the whip when Dave gets home.
 
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Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
the "sunset" shots are pretty common around here.
I agree with you, Kurt has really completely spoiled us. I honestly wasn't going to enter this month because I didn't think the sunset was all that great in my photo. It had mostly fizzled out by the time I took the photo.

Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challenge I'm sure.
+1 Kudos to pw4 for a job well done.

I also liked #6, but something seemed wrong about it. Looking at the colors on the trees, then checking the EXIF data confirmed it. Still a nice photo though.

Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
Can I request maybe "Rain" (got plenty these days)
Be careful what you wish for!
 
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Old 04-02-2009, 06:51 PM
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It will be posted up later today. Sorry, NAM was down at 5am PST and that's when it should've been done.

I'll crack the whip when Dave gets home.
Just so he knows, I really appreciate him doing this.
 
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Old 04-02-2009, 07:18 PM
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It's nice to see all the attention for the topic.

The April topic has been posted.
 
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