Mini Challenge #140 -- After Dark
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Welcome to Round #140 of the Dgrin Mini-Challenges.
This challenge is open to any Dgrin member. It will run from now through Tuesday, April 17 at 9 pm EDT. (2 weeks)
The topic ready for your interpretation: After Dark
Your Judge:
-ghinson (Greg)
We've done this topic once before, 2-1/2 years ago. Danny Seidman hosted it and posted some inspiring images. I learned a lot from that challenge by simply learning to copy his techniques--Thanks Danny! Looking back at the thread, I am embarrassed by my own entry and am excited to show now what I learned.
As Danny wrote then: "As day turns to night, a whole new array of photographic opportunities present themselves. This is a time that calls for experimentation and creativity that often yields highly unique photographs. It seems all too common that photographers will pack up their gear and head home once the sun has set and darkness moves in. For those of you who have stayed behind, I’d love to see what you’ve produced."
Most of my shots are celestials. But you are welcome to make the subject whatever you'd like as long as it's apparent that you were shooting under the conditions of night, that is anything from twilight to midnight to twilight. Light painting would be great to see. And, if possible avoid repeating photos from the thread from 2009, which is located here:
Mini Challenge #83 -- Nighttime
Now, for some examples...
Lyrid meteor shower
This photo was picked up by Nat Geo and is currently being used by NASA. The latter link will give you more info about catching the next show on April 21.
Night Skies over Sesachacha Pond, Nantucket
Sesachacha in Moonlight
Sankaty Star Trails
Milestone Road and Orionid meteor
Serengheti Stars (Nantucket moors)
Milky Way over a Misty Harbor
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner then chooses the next topic, judges the winner and then passes on the baton to the new champion.
3. Any photo you have taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed.
5. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Embed your image in the thread.
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800-1024 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. Don't be hesitant, share'em and enter!
This challenge is open to any Dgrin member. It will run from now through Tuesday, April 17 at 9 pm EDT. (2 weeks)
The topic ready for your interpretation: After Dark
Your Judge:
-ghinson (Greg)
We've done this topic once before, 2-1/2 years ago. Danny Seidman hosted it and posted some inspiring images. I learned a lot from that challenge by simply learning to copy his techniques--Thanks Danny! Looking back at the thread, I am embarrassed by my own entry and am excited to show now what I learned.
As Danny wrote then: "As day turns to night, a whole new array of photographic opportunities present themselves. This is a time that calls for experimentation and creativity that often yields highly unique photographs. It seems all too common that photographers will pack up their gear and head home once the sun has set and darkness moves in. For those of you who have stayed behind, I’d love to see what you’ve produced."
Most of my shots are celestials. But you are welcome to make the subject whatever you'd like as long as it's apparent that you were shooting under the conditions of night, that is anything from twilight to midnight to twilight. Light painting would be great to see. And, if possible avoid repeating photos from the thread from 2009, which is located here:
Mini Challenge #83 -- Nighttime
Now, for some examples...
Lyrid meteor shower
This photo was picked up by Nat Geo and is currently being used by NASA. The latter link will give you more info about catching the next show on April 21.
Night Skies over Sesachacha Pond, Nantucket
Sesachacha in Moonlight
Sankaty Star Trails
Milestone Road and Orionid meteor
Serengheti Stars (Nantucket moors)
Milky Way over a Misty Harbor
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner then chooses the next topic, judges the winner and then passes on the baton to the new champion.
3. Any photo you have taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed.
5. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Embed your image in the thread.
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800-1024 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. Don't be hesitant, share'em and enter!
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I think I'll just quote ic4u from her reply to the host of the 2009 contest...
1. From Coronado
2. Forth of July 2011 ~ San Clemente, CA
3. Tiller Days
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1. Downtown Los Angeles
2. Long Beach waterfront Pano
3. Vincent Thomas Bridge, San Pedro
site - http://www.bay-photography.com/
blog - http://bayphotos.blogspot.com/
I feel so lucky to live someplace dark! The night skies here can be incredible.
In several of my example photos, when you see the rim of color above the horizon, colors that almost make the photos look like combined sunset/starscape photos, those colors and light are ambient light from Cape Cod, which is 30 miles to the north. So, if I am out on a moonless night, and photograph looking north, I will get that light along my horizon. If I look up, I just see the infinity of stars. I cannot imagine seeing all of that if I were on the Cape (which still is not metropolitan) and had to look up through that light pollution!
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Window
Swingin'
Hands in the air
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=352005978175567&set=a.347802271929271.79494.347779185264913&type=1&theater
Lake Tahoe under Full Moon
San Francisco Twilight
http://kadvantage.smugmug.com/
Tahoe is one of my favorite places...and this is amazing!
www.lisaspeakmanphotography.com
After dark at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Sir Edward Scissorhands by Lamplight
San Diego Skyline from Harbor Island
Check out billseye photos on SmugMug
Brighton Eye
Brighton Pier
Evening Light
Hampton Inn in Nashville TN 2011 with Kodak DX6490
and two from Belize in 1998 the moon with a point and shoot film camera
and a sting ray on a night dive at Hol Chan also with a film camera which I lost on a dive in Cozumel
I love this one!!!!
http://lrichters.smugmug.com
Camping
Backyard Party
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Jake
Follow me on Instagram! @hankschlessphoto
Nikon D90, 85mm f/1.8, 18-70mm f/3.5, 70-300mm f/4.5, Nikon SB-800, MX-600 tripod
Thanks Linda
Alan
SE Oregon river in flood stage. 89.1 seconds exposure. Sure glad it wasn't 89.2, that may have ruined it.
Late night hula hoopin'
Probly just shouldn't put a title on this one
#2 - the Pantheon, looking out.
#3 - the Thames
#4 - the Bonfire
http://www.facebook.com/cdgImagery (concert photography)
http://www.cdgimagery.com (concert photography)
http://chrisdg.smugmug.com (everything else)
This is an offbeat area of Death Valley with Joshua trees everywhere! We took advantage of the clear night sky to photograph the milky way which was present in all its glory. Single exposure 14mm f/2.8 ISO 3200. I used a pocket flashlight to paint a touch of light on the tree. Thanks for looking!
Crescent City Prints
Facebook Fan Page
Blog
http://kadvantage.smugmug.com/
Pine Valley Mountain
Ventura Pier
I shot in twilight and darkness for so many years that I actually had problems getting used to adequate, much less bright light. Not that I have many good ones, I'm trying to decide between people stuff, cityscapes, fireworks, just fire or just weird. The one thing I'm certain I don't have are star shots. In the sky, at least.
Time to just decide: Concept :: Person :: City
1) Dusk light
2) Chair
3) Something HKG
1. Fitting the snow on Christmas night (Canada)
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2. Silent Night (Germany)
3. Night time snacks (Guatemala)
TravelwaysPhotos.com ...... Facebook
VegasGreatAttractions.com
Travelways.com
2. All Alone Under the Stars
3. San Diego After Dark
2 Companionship
3 Jupiter
Cairnwood Mansion Gleaming (freezing rain covered the snow with a sheet of ice)
Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Before the Dawn in Hana (Maui, Hawaii)
The first shot is another view of the building that I photographed for my "1912" entry.
My SmugMug Galleries
I am on vacation this week. In a cottage, on the Chesapeake Bay. And I did not realize how dead this area is for wi-fi-, broadband, and even cell service.
I cannot do this challenge justice judging and replying from a cell phone. So I am going to have to do it Saturday.
So hang in there with me.
Even lookkng through the pics on the iPhone however, I can tell I have my work cut out for me.
Greg
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Blame it on Verizon and everyone going digital. That's the effect that changing over has on rural areas. Makes no difference in the city but down here .... I used to have an analog bag phone (with a big battery) on our boat with an antenna on top of the mast. I could call on it from the middle of the Bay. Now with those tiny cell phones, I have to be really close (too close) to land. People accept inferior service that is cheaper for the phone company because they have forgotten how it used to be
Depending on where you are, some marinas have wi-fi and it is often free. I could probably tell you where if I knew which side of the Bay you are on. On my side, you could come to my house.