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3rd PlaceShooting Snowflakes
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Challenge: Fill Flash (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Iceland
Date: Dec 9, 2008
Aperture: f/7,1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200 sec.
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Dec 9, 2008

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Statistics
Place: 3 out of 79
Avg (all users): 6.8341
Avg (commenters): 8.6364
Avg (participants): 6.3846
Avg (non-participants): 6.8953
Views since voting: 7604
Views during voting: 440
Votes: 217
Comments: 27
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 12/19/2008 12:03:06 PM
To answer Ambaker's question.
I guess he used the flash to fill the darkness. There had to be at least starlight for backlighting. The fill flash just overfilled the ambient back lighting. It is a great picture, it only needs to be percieved as fill-flash in some way, by the mojority of voters.
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 12/18/2008 10:05:50 AM
Congratulations on the yellow! I was wondering how this image would do in the voting. Strictly speaking, I did not see this as fill flash; as fill flash is normally understood to be a light to fill the shadows where a subject is back-lit.

That being said, I gave you a 9, as it is a very strong image. You definetly captured the feeling of the snowfall. Excellent job all they way around.

I'd love to know how you captured the tracks of the snow, using the flash at 1/200.

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 12/18/2008 12:20:00 AM
that's pretty amazing. Congrats.
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 12/17/2008 07:32:40 PM
how the heck did you get snowflakes to move at the speed of light?
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 12/17/2008 01:51:17 PM
Oh How awesome!
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 12/17/2008 12:41:31 PM
congrats on another ribbon! Iceland is always on the front page it seems
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 12/17/2008 12:03:04 PM
This is a stunning image - and you picked the perfect title for it. Fantastic capture, Þorsteinn and congrats on the ribbon.
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 12/17/2008 12:01:53 PM
The challenge was fill flash not all flash and this image (although a wonderful and beautifull) getting a ribbon simply show the ignorance of the majority of DPC voters.

Sorry.

Kevin
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 12/17/2008 07:56:57 AM
Congrats on the third place old brother, fantastic capture!
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 12/17/2008 04:42:23 AM
Til hamingju
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 12/17/2008 02:44:52 AM
This is really cool! Absolutely brilliant & creative. Congrats!!
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 12/17/2008 01:19:46 AM
Really cool effect with the snow. Congrats on your ribbon!
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 12/17/2008 12:43:02 AM
One of my favs and it ribbons again. Nice one and congratulations. Shooting stars are what they remind me of too.
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 12/17/2008 12:10:14 AM
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RIBBON for such a brilliant photograph .. dark and atmospheric and the snow flakes look almost like meteorites heading towards earth .. amazing effect coz i'd imagine that they'd be tapered the opposite way if they were falling .. very strange and otherworldly with such a nearly mundane subject .. WOW .. !!! ..:)..
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/16/2008 05:06:04 PM
Beautiful shot...
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 12/15/2008 07:10:59 PM
This is a really interesting shot. I like the snow streaks in the sky. The lighting on the tractor is a little off I think but it matches the challenge perfectly. This is really cool. Nice work.
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 12/15/2008 03:50:05 PM
Very nicely done and very imaginative ...
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 12/15/2008 01:29:53 PM
/501
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 12/13/2008 12:47:01 PM
This looks really cool (pun intended). I like it. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2008 12:50:38 AM
Creative photograph! 9 for that.


Bumping to 10. Top 3 for this challenge for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2008 12:37:05 AM
nice effect!
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 12/12/2008 04:47:36 PM
Great shot
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 12/11/2008 09:10:34 PM
Love the snow streaks! Does it still run?
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 12/11/2008 07:25:55 PM
What a bizarre group of photos. Maybe it's just me but I think most of them are off the mark. This one though - WHOA and WOW...!!! This should be the winner and it's one of the rare 10's for this challenge - imho. Excellent: 10
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 12/10/2008 09:25:52 PM
those snowflakes are awesome! nice job ...
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 12/10/2008 03:07:33 PM
hyperspace =)
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 12/10/2008 03:17:22 AM
Good photo, but fill flash?
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