jmtonkin
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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- May 6, 2011
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- Minnesota, South Dakota (for school)
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Hey all,
My university is having a photography contest! Great news for people like me, who actually have a passion for photography, and strive to be the best I can be. However, they are judging the contest based on "likes" on their Facebook page. Most of the submissions appear to be directly from a cell phone, and have little to offer, so it is very frustrating that I am doing so poorly. This isn't a photography contest as much as it is a popularity contest, and that REALLY bugs me.
I really just needed to vent that, and if this isn't the appropriate forum for that, I'm sorry.
For those wondering, however, here is my entry! My fiancee and I went on a week-long camping trip to Wyoming last summer; a brief thunderstorm had just broken, and the sun was starting to shine from behind the stormcell. We had decided to call it a day (we hiked nine miles that day), and were on our way back to our campsite when I saw this scene before me. I pulled over, grabbed the camera and my tripod, and took some test shots. I wasn't getting the contrast I wanted in the clouds, so I grabbed my graduated ND filter (2-stop), and played around with that. I really enjoy this shot - probably mostly for the memory.
My university is having a photography contest! Great news for people like me, who actually have a passion for photography, and strive to be the best I can be. However, they are judging the contest based on "likes" on their Facebook page. Most of the submissions appear to be directly from a cell phone, and have little to offer, so it is very frustrating that I am doing so poorly. This isn't a photography contest as much as it is a popularity contest, and that REALLY bugs me.
I really just needed to vent that, and if this isn't the appropriate forum for that, I'm sorry.
For those wondering, however, here is my entry! My fiancee and I went on a week-long camping trip to Wyoming last summer; a brief thunderstorm had just broken, and the sun was starting to shine from behind the stormcell. We had decided to call it a day (we hiked nine miles that day), and were on our way back to our campsite when I saw this scene before me. I pulled over, grabbed the camera and my tripod, and took some test shots. I wasn't getting the contrast I wanted in the clouds, so I grabbed my graduated ND filter (2-stop), and played around with that. I really enjoy this shot - probably mostly for the memory.