Landscape June 2013

[Autobot]

1 - Sunset over Western Tasmania



2 - Mt Murchison dawn



3 - Rush hour in the moonlight



4 - Dusk from Brinkleys Bluff, Larapinta Trail NT.



5 - Towards the West Coast Range.



6 - Black Hill



7 - Kendalls Rock



8 - Frankland River from Sapper's Bridge



9 - North from Needles



10 - Winter late afternoon over Narrowneck



11 - Granite boulders



12 - Cathedral


(This post/poll automatically generated by the Photo Competition system)

[stu]

Is it just me or are the first 2 photos not loading?

[gayet]

Not just you stu

[biggbird]

Not loading for me either Disappointing for me, one of the two is mine :p

[stepbystep]

Assume someone has reported it? Anyhoo only 2 votes so far...

[GPSGuided]

Odd. When I first opened this thread, all photos loaded normally. an hour or two later revisiting this thread, the first two photos disappeared. I think I'll clear my browser cache and double check.

[wildwalks]

sorry for the missing photos -- working on the problem :{

[biggbird]

No worries Wildwalks, I'm sure you guys will get it sorted Let me know if I need to do anything to help!

[stepbystep]

No worries Wildwalks, I'm sure you guys will get it sorted Let me know if I need to do anything to help!

Not enter, that would help me heaps

[biggbird]

Just re-sent the photo SBS Sorry (but not really)

[wildwalks]

Hi Bigbird - great stuff it is up now - still have not idea why these failed the first time round.
good luck with the comp.

Matt

[biggbird]

Thanks Matt

[eggs]

I managed to see one of them, but something is still going wrong?!

[biggbird]

I don't think that the second photo (Murchison Dawn) has been fixed/re-uploaded as yet. Not sure whose that is, but I'm sure Matt will sort it if possible.

[tsangpo]

The forum seems to be doing some pretty shocking compression for all of this months landscape photo comp. Epic banding of the skies and some images are really flat in a way that previous months and the other comps are not. Image #1 does not have the issue though.

[GerryDuke]

Image 2 not loading for me either.

[tibboh]

Image 2 still AWOL

[tasadam]

I have been advised Matt is awaiting a reply from the entrant in order to obtain the image that is missing.

Interesting re what is said about the compression, I will look at this & discuss with Matt.

[eggs]

Not sure about the compression issue. It might be the viewer screen.
I can only just make out banding in 2 of them - and that is being very finicky.
I presume the "flat" refers to a couple of them which might benefit from some more contrast/colour saturation.

[Clusterpod]

If the submitted images are 2000px long edge, then resized to 800px for display (Submission #1 seems to be displaying at 720px long edge), there will be all sorts of effects to the resulting image, especially if the submitted JPEG wasn't at maximum quality.

Forum image toolkits like GD and Imagemagick default to 75% quality (from memory)

So really, you are taking your RAW or JPG from your camera, editing it (losing a bit here), saving as a JPEG (losing a bit here) and uploading, where the forum resizes (loses a bit here) and recompresses as JPEG again (losing the most).

If you have left out a colour profile from the JPEG, or used one other than sRGB, then there may be additional colour shifts and even artifacts as people's browses try to interpolate data.

[wildwalks]

Sorry for the long delay - Got the second image up now. Unfortunately (and I am not sure why) but these images did not upload so I had to chase up the original files. and add them manually.
If anyone want to change their votes - please PM me and I will work out how to do that

Thanks and sorry for the hassle

Matt

[tsangpo]

Hmm, just looked at the photos on IE instead of chrome and they were fine. Weird because #1 and #2 and all the other competitions were fine on chrome but the rest of the photos from this comp looked like they were in 256 colour or not much better.

[Chris]

The title of #3 is as intriguing as the photograph - I really want to know more!

[stepbystep]

The title of #3 is as intriguing as the photograph - I really want to know more!

I don't think it matters if I reveal given the votes, my vote went for #1.

The title is ironic, it was the most wonderfully calm evening at Arthur River, not a breath of wind, a full moon and the quietest of seas. I took 20-odd 15 second exposures and this exposure caught the movement I wanted. I wandered around for 4 hours on this most peaceful of nights. We are so lucky.

[Chris]

Thanks SBS. Now I understand, and for what it's worth I very much like the image.
Looking at the rocks more closely now I recognise where it is - the Arthur has been a favourite spot for years, though can't remember too many calm days!
As you say, we are so lucky to have access to such a wonderful place.

[iandsmith]

Some good stuff there, well done fellow competitors. Like some of the ideas that are filtering through.

[Autobot]

Congratulations to the winner of the Landscape June 2013 competition, with 13 votes:

• biggbird - Sunset over Western Tasmania

The key to all entries for this competition is below.

1 - Sunset over Western Tasmania
by biggbird.

2 - Mt Murchison dawn
by naturelover.

3 - Rush hour in the moonlight
by stepbystep.

4 - Dusk from Brinkleys Bluff, Larapinta Trail NT.
by forest.

5 - Towards the West Coast Range.
by doogs.

6 - Black Hill
by eggs.

7 - Kendalls Rock
by iandsmith.

8 - Frankland River from Sapper's Bridge
by Clusterpod.

9 - North from Needles
by stoogest.

10 - Winter late afternoon over Narrowneck
by johnw.

11 - Granite boulders
by tom_brennan.

12 - Cathedral
by tibboh.

[doogs]

Not loading for me either Disappointing for me, one of the two is mine :p

Doesn't want to load on the Board Index page now (might just be my computer tho..)
PS. Congrats

[stepbystep]

Ripper shot bigbird, got my vote, really like the one from Cathedral too.

[biggbird]

Haha I saw that too Doogs! What a finicky photo it is.

Cheers SBS, it was one of those sunsets that got me really excited, I knew it was a special sunset. This photo doesn't do it justice, it was beautiful!