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Contest Results: Signs of spring

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Ended 05/01/13 12:15 AM GMT
Winner: Photo2runner (See the full results)

1st place
Spring Light by Photo2runner

Flmngseabass: Congratulations Tony on this award winning image!!! A very well presented and beautiful capture:)

rozem061: Congratulations of the contest win, with this marvelous shot !
John

bfrank: Very nice Tony. It really is quite lovely for a spring posting. Good luck on the contest. I'd give you a good placement.

Photo2runner received a 2 month membership in the Caedes Cadre.

2nd place
New Life by LynEve

snapshooter87: Lovely, Eve. Certainly was nice of them to provide such a nice formation (well balanced composition).

SEFA: What a Beautiful family Lyn. You have captured them so well. This is a great Contest entry. Good luck!

LynEve received a 1 month membership in the Caedes Cadre.

3rd place
Honeybee #31 by ryzst

LakeMichigan: Congratulations on the contest placing , Russ.

rvdb: Congrats on your win Russ a excellent shot.

Rob

ryzst: Thank you for the nice comments.

It takes some time to retrain your vision for macrophotography & how to achieve good results. For me, the reduced depth of field (DOF) continues to be the main challenge. And if that wasn't enough, I bought the EF 12 II Extension Tube for the 100mm lens to increase magnification past the 1X it can currently achieve. That will decrease the DOF even more and also eliminate focusing to infinity. Ideally, I'd like to be able to shoot about 0.5-2X

4th place
Ladybug by Eubeen

bfrank: Did good in the capture of this lady bug on your lamp. Good focus for the indoors Wendell. Don't much care for insects inside the house so I'm with you about kicking him out.

palral: First of all, I love the composition and perspective. Most people would have rotated the shot to get the bug "right side up" whatever that would have been. I mentioned your photographer's eye before, and you "done good" with it this time. Just think what you could be doing with two eyes.

A little short on the depth of field, but the majority of the little beetle is well focused although I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's sharply focused. Nice use of lighting, but I'm sorry to hear that you tossed her out into the cold where she was immediately eaten by a hungry bat.

10 on the composition and perspective. 6 on the focus. 8 on the colors. All and all, a 7.5-7.785.

5th place
Passionate Purple Tulips by CDHale

LynEve: A delight to view Christie - I love the translucent look they have and of course the colour is beautiful

Starglow: Wonderful entry and artfully done. Terrific lighting.

nanadoo: Beautiful, Christie.....wall art!!!!!

icedancer: Wow, gorgeous entry and capture, love the colours and lighting. Good Luck