Assignment 6: Vanishing Point -- Congratulations mattsartin

Here is Assignment 6, courtesy of Dave Johnston. We want pictures that show a vanishing point. To use Dave Johnston's description "I am sure you've seen the shots of a subway going of into oblivion, or a
really long strait road." He and Sheiky will be judging this time around for the finalists and then as usual we will vote on their selections.





The voting is closed, and it looks like mattsartin! I am looking forward to the next assignment, and will post it in a few days. If anyone would be willing to help with the judging of the next assignment I am looking for a judge still!


Thanks


btaylor


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mattsartin


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Nate


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bastoone


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MattG


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2slo


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I will be judging as well so my entry doesn't count. I still want to kick off just to make this tread more open for uploads. Good luck everybody!


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Great subject! Looking forwards to the enteries.

Fantastic subject!


Here's my entry. Taken at a friends' wedding in Western Australia. The reception was held at a winery and the scenes were just magic.


Hope you like.


Cheers, Ben.


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Was that a tilt-shift lens or did you do that in post?

The Road Less Traveled


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Unfortunately it wasn't a tilt shift lens for this one. The blur was done in post.


I've used the TS-E 90mm f/2.8 before and it was superb - I really enjoyed using it. That photo was actually taken handheld with the good old 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM. It's done some hard yards, but I'm ready to upgrade it. In fact I haven't used it since getting my 70-200mm f/4 IS.

Here is mine: taken in southern Ada County, just north of the Snake River in Idaho.


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Canon XTi &amp; 50mm f/1.8 II


1/100s f/2 ISO 800


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This was taken in Z&uuml;rich, Switzerland. Click for big Version of flickr.



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Cape Cod, MA


Rebel XSI, EF-S 17-55 2.8 IS, 17mm, 2s, f/16, ISO 100

Hello all!


this photo was taken in Little rock, AR on the river trail bridge


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17 mm f2.8 iso 100 1/200 sec

Image taken with my 40D and the 10-20mm Sigma lens attached taken at 10mm.





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Awesome shots here everyone! Keep it up!





The judges will have it hard with this one...[;)]

Canon Rebel XS / EF-S 18-55


1/60 @ f/3.5, ISO 200, handheld


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Sheiky pointed out to me that having the last day on Valentines was probably not a good idea, not to mention making it too short. I have extended the deadline till February 19th so that we can get a good set of submissions.


Happy Shooting!

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Excellent entries, everyone. piioooo, Ehcalum, Mattsartin...They're all great. These assignments are really kicking some serious butt [Y]

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Let me tell you ladies and gents, these competitions are getting better and better.


I am looking at the pictures and I am loving every sinle one!

Can I have two points?


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Let me tell you ladies and gents, these competitions are getting better and better.


I am looking at the pictures and I am loving every sinle one!

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Couldn't agree more. Lovely stuff.


Richard

St. Charles County, Missouri, near the Confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.





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You've got that right!!![:P]


Love the entries! Looking forward to next friday [:D]

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Shot with 30D, 17-40L@17mm, f10, 1/100s, ISO100

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mattsartin is nice! The DOF makes sure you see the athlete first, and the vanishing point serves a purpose. Still there, but blurry, it really pushes the athlete forward in the picture. Creative, functional and nice to look at. And not the 500.000th road picture.





I vote for that one. It's a cut above the rest: which is beautiful and fun and cool and everything, but mattsartin takes vanishing point to another level compared to the other submissions.

Thank you I appreciate the compliment! I actually won a competition at IU Southeast with this picture. It was just a spontaneous thing too, taken of a guy a run with one night, everyone else has nice work too

My gosh, they're all fantastic. I actually only own one lens, and it happens to be a 300 f/4 so I can't really participate in most of these assignments. Lensrentals.com, here I come!


Anwho, I will second that, very nice image Matt. Different from the rest, next time try one at f11 to get a full depth of field.


brendan

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Dare I say it: no. That would effectively ruin the photograph. With current DOF intact all info needed remains visible in the picture yet the DOF is functional for it lierally puts the focus on the main subject. The blurred background is still very very very recognisable and the vanishing point in the blurred section is actually fully functional AND it serves as a means to further push the main subject forward into the picture so to say.





Dont change anything. Keep doing what you are doing. My 2c. (A hundred people, a hundred opinions LOL)

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Dare I say it: no. That would effectively ruin the photograph

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Or give it a different look. Oh well, it's good as it is, let's not beat a very, very, dead horse [H]

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Scott

Dave Johnston, I hope you have a lot of free time on weekends; judging these entries should keep you up a while [:P]

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Indeed sir, this is some tough competition here. I feel sorry for the guy that has to judge it.








... wait. [:|]

xsi, f10, 1/125, iso-100, 33mm using efs17-55mm


high plains prairie central idaho, sun was poking through the clouds.


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I can play this time!


This was a few days ago (ignore the flickr time stamp, I had my camera set wrongly). It's of my street, I think a 30 second exposure as a car drove by. Taken around 11:00pm.

This is by far the best assignment yet. 2slo, very nice. However, I will say that Rodger's for me is a cut above the crowd. So far it's edged out some extremely tough competition for the best here...

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Indeed sir, this is some tough competition here. I feel sorry for the guy that has to judge it.





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Hahahaha!





Also, Thanks Brendan for your comments!!

Sticking with the first for my original entry, Just thought I'd share my best cliche vanishing point road pictures. [:P]


Canon XTi &amp; Tamron 10-24mm @ 10mm


1/200s f/8 ISO 100


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18-55 IS @ 18mm


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I just submitted my favorites to Dave, so we can make a nice selection together. Great entries!


By the way Matt, I love your bridge...[:D]