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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: Thomas Stellwag on October 31, 2016, 13:13:54
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the winner comes from.....what else is possible.....Norway
https://www.gdtfoto.de/seiten/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-results-2016.html?lang=English (https://www.gdtfoto.de/seiten/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-results-2016.html?lang=English)
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Phenomenal images, thanks for sharing!
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Amazing (I cant spell fenominal)
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A very high-level competition. Thanks for sharing, Thomas!
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Thanks for the link, impressive mages!
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wow. very impressive and humbling.
Thanks for sharing.
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When a photograph no longer looks like a photograph, is it still a photograph?
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Of course. Taken by a lens and camera makes it automatically a photograph.
If you refer to the winning photograph, the assertion makes little sense however. It is easy to understand why it looks this way.
I read through an interview with the winner, Audun Rikardsen, and learned the background for the scene. He has also been on national TV in several series showing in utmost detail how he works, so there is little mystery behind his magnificent captures.
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I read through an interview with the winner, Audun Rikardsen, and learned the background for the scene. He has also been on national TV in several series showing in utmost detail how he works, so there is little mystery behind his magnificent captures.
Here is one program with him: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ut-i-naturen/DNPR65008515/23-08-2016
I think it can be entertaining also for those that do not understand norwegian.
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Here is one program with him: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ut-i-naturen/DNPR65008515/23-08-2016
I think it can be entertaining also for those that do not understand norwegian.
Amazing. Simply amazing. Thanks for the link, Asle! The videographer who shot Audun working is equally amazing!
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So, you could view the TV series abroad, Akira. Good to know.
The winning picture of an orca whale in frost fog was actually taken some 700 m outside his house. He was watching the whales in the fjord and saw an interesting potential for visualisation so fired up the boat and snapped the shot with (I believe) a Canon camera and 70-200 Canon lens. Such images of blowing whales are usually captured against the setting sun, this was unusual because it was done in frost fog, but otherwise not that remarkable. A lot of his other images are better in my opinion.
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Bjørn, yes, I could watch the whole program from here in Tokyo. I figured that there are superimposed captions because of three official languages of Norway?
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Such programs usually are not texted unless you choose it yourself.
His northern Norwegian dialect should be understandable to most Norwegians whatever main language they use.
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Stunning, and some spectacular nature to work in. Also fascinating to see how he creates his tailor-made tools.
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A reply to Number 8.
Actually the photo that elicited my query was the photo of the two hummingbirds. They look peculiarly unreal to me, while doing their best to be good hummingbirds.
I guess it is a lot about what the individual response to an image is...I'm not interested in slight of hand. I am interested in images that tell me more or that drop me off in an unknown realm to wonder.
Most of the photos do that in the above link. A few do not, and strangely, I just looked in on another list of awards for wildlife, http://petapixel.com/2016/10/18/10-best-wildlife-photos-2016/?trk_msg=OI8B7A4D8O44N1690KRLASLPSO&trk_contact=OT73OGTMJT6AJB2OVUSTR1DF54&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Photo+Blog&utm_campaign=Need+a+Heavy+Double-sided+Luster+Paper%3f+%7c+How+Long+You+Should+Let+Your+Inkjet+Prints+Dry+%7c+Digital+D, and felt exactly the same about some of the images.
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I looked through the bird section and found nothing special there. A high-key image broke the monotony though.
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Yep... in an nebulous way, I wonder about proportion of an image recorded in the camera vs the post processing at your computer. Say if post = 85% of an image, one might just call the final product an MTO (Mixed Technology Offering).
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If that were so, photography since its inception has been all about "MTO". Digital just continues the norm within a modern setting.
Is any photograph "objective" in the strictest sense? Is there a universal truth and just a single manner in which to record it ??
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Agreed...no photograph is objective. If I take a photo of a squirrel, I cannot later produce a squirrel from it, much as I might like to.
The arts are not the place to find a universal truth, just a place where you might find something more real than what actually is...
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Here is one program with him: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ut-i-naturen/DNPR65008515/23-08-2016
I think it can be entertaining also for those that do not understand norwegian.
I watched the first 20 minutes and I am flabbergasted by the images on display.
The underwater shots with Aurora Borealis and the fishing shots have just left me speechless.
The guy is amazing!!!
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Amazing (I cant spell fenominal)
Google is better than a spelling checker unless your name is "Yahere".
Dave who once wasted 15 minutes struggling to find the correct spelling for cupboard. Cupboard: a board with wooden pegs pressed into it for holding cups (contraction of cup board). :)
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Yep... in an nebulous way, I wonder about proportion of an image recorded in the camera vs the post processing at your computer. Say if post = 85% of an image, one might just call the final product an MTO (Mixed Technology Offering).
With slides and digital, I make my pictures in the camera in the field. Sending film to the lab, and finish digitals on the computer has never been anything more than finishing the job for me.
With b&w film, I made my pictures in the darkroom, aren't they photographs? Actually I felt myself more as an photographer than anytime else when I was making pictures in the darkroom. The work with the camera in the field was only a starting point for the work in the darkroom.