28 August 2008
Just Over A Week To Go In Aperture Photo Contest - TWIP
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Photo by Scott Bourne
Just a reminder….
The first of four Aperture Nature Photography Workshops contests ends September! Now’s your chance to enter for one of four prize packages including a trip to Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming and more than $2500 worth of photo - related prizes including:
1 USB Drobo - approximate value $500
1 Lensbaby - approximate value $350
1 Premium subscription to lynda.com value $375
1 set of all current Peachpit Press Photo-related books - approximate value $500
1 ThinkTank 360 Photo Bag - approximate value $350
1 Apple Aperture 2.1 - approximate value $200
1 Lifetime Pro Membership to Photrade - approximate value $500
Go the contest page at Photrade if you want your entry to count in this first of four sessions. If you can’t get an image ready for this event, check back in a month or so and you can submit images for the next event in Yellowstone National Park.
Please read the complete contest rules located in the right side navigation bar at the APNW blog. Contest rules are also available at Photrade.com on our contest page, but in short; one entry per person, must be 18 or older, must own the photo being submitted and must be a US resident.
Thanks and good luck.
8 Comments so far...
Bryant Johnson aka Yarnspinner68 aka DBJohnsonPhotography Says:
28 August 2008 at 3:18 pm.
Thanks, Scott!
Finalizing which one to send over the next couple of days. Just got the prints back…wanted to see them printed professionally before I made the final decision. 
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Mark Says:
28 August 2008 at 6:35 pm.
Thanks Scott for finally pushing me to submit a photo.
As usual I am always impressed with the photos you post on TWIPPHOTO.COM as well as what I have found on your other sites. I am especially curious as to the actual exif details of this particular image, specifically the aperture and focal length used. It appears that most of the head is in focus which in my experience is usually not possible with larger f stops. A future article about the relationship to depth of field, focal length and aperture might be quite knowledgeable to those of us who have not experienced super telephotos.
Mark
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merlyn9 Says:
28 August 2008 at 11:19 pm.
So when’s the Lightroom Nature/Wildlife competition?
So is it safe to assume your Bison shot is from Yellowstone?
Gave up my Rut season trip this Sept./Oct. for a Winter workshop there in February!!!
(ok, so I have surgery scheduled for Oct…)
None-the-less… would like to see a similar contest for those of us Lightroom Faithful!
Tried Aperture in the early days… likes Lightroom better, got hooked… the rest is history!
Love your Bison shot by the way… 
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Scott Says:
29 August 2008 at 6:59 am.
@merlyn9 - You’ll have to contact Adobe to see when they plan something like this. The Bison is Yellowstone.
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Scott Says:
29 August 2008 at 7:04 am.
@Mark this shot was made with a Canon 400 mm F/5.6 lens shot wide open. The trick to soft backgrounds is to focus on the subject’s eye and let everything else go. A narrow angle of view provided by the telephoto lens helps isolate the subject. I’ll try to write something more detailed in the form of an article when I get time.
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Ian Procter Says:
29 August 2008 at 12:00 pm.
Scott - sounds like an awesome contest. It would be great if you could partner with Steve Simon and do a similar contest in Canada. In Calgary - only 1 hour from Banff - there are some awesome opportunities to capture the Canadian parks….
Cheers !
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Mark Says:
29 August 2008 at 1:22 pm.
@Scott. Wow. A lens most of us non-pros can afford. I was expecting at least a 500/600 with maybe even an extender added. It would be quite educational to hear more about the technique used to get these results. Thanks.
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