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Round One 1/2 Results

Round One Results

Round One 1/2

Round One

The Entries

AT & IR with prizes!

Third Annual Whitewater Photography Comp

2016 Whitewater Calendar

Norway Trekking 4

Sony 35 1.8 vs Sony 28 f/2

Norway Trekking 3

South Kaweah Canyon Loop

Flashlight 1 FL

Pentax 28mm f/3.5 review

Sony FE 28mm f/2 take two.

Review: Sony FE 28mm f/2

Norway Trekking 2

Norway Trekking

Middle Verzasca, Switzerland

Egua, Italy

Gronda, Italy

Brandenburger Ache

Celestial Falls

White & Little White

Eagle Creek, Oregon

McKenzie River - Sahalie & Koosah

Testing PFD Rescue Belts

Corsican Climax

New Nomad

Codi River - Corsica.

Sven Lämmler - Site Zed

Return to the California Heat

Strange thing in Sony land

Old Nikons, Norway

AT Hercules Review Conclusion

Upper Cherry X3

Italia

Cherry Sundae

South Kings

More Corsica

April Upper Cherry

Cali

Corsica

Samyang 12mm Return

Prijon

UMK

Lost Kayaks

Fixed Tuolumne Photos

Water & No Water

Below French Meadow

Down Time

135mm love

Clendenning Creek

New Year, New Wallpaper

New Year

USFS Catch 22

AT Hercules

Decline

MindShift Adventure Bags

Measuring Volume

Flash & the A6000

Rotomolding Outfitting

Back with B&W

Reformat & Recent Shots

Mexico Wallpaper

It's go time.

V-Slide

Summer in the Kaweah

Strange Business

Lens v Lens

Slate Creek

Sun Stars

Snow Branch

3rd and 4th

Back to the beginning

Consolation

The Winner!

Final Round

Round 4 Results

Round 4

Round 3 Results

Round 3

Round 2 Results

Round 2

Wildcard Results

Wildcards

Round One Results

Round One

All In

First Fourteen

Pushing Bottons

2nd Annual Photo Comp

GoPro Covers

Guidebook

Rain & Diversions

The Coast & Sony Zeiss

BC Updates

Homer's Odyessy

Tutorial Update

Recent Reads

Shasta Ranch

Morning Light

Dry Shasta

Corse II

Corsica

Leave us the misery

Team Strudel

New In Print

Cull

A7: Just the right size.

L'Île de Beauté

Thanksgiving tradition

Backpack testing

Trolling for clicks.

Just once

Back to the A7

Seasons

Classics

Df

Metabones Speedbooster

Halloween

Salto Alerces

Rio Futaleufu

Rio Baker

Journey to the Baker

Rio Gol Gol

Rio Cochamo

Cochamo Valley

more Chile

A-7

Chile

Reunited

The mystery

Rio Salado

Argentina

Fuefukigawa

Free?

Gear Attrition.

Imperfection is Beautiful

PPP

Moving!

The Winner!

Final Round

The Finalists

Semi-Finals

Advancing to Semis

United

Quarter Finals

We'll be back.

Sweet Sixteen

Advancing Wild Cards

Waiting

Wild Cards

Round One Results

March Madness

Last Four Spots

Second Fourteen

First Fourteen

Photo Championship

Far Nor Cal

Through the roof

Reality

LA-EA1

Corrected

Sierra River Scenery

Unnatural

Fresh

Abandoned

System

Sahalie Wallpaper

Back in the office

Out of the office

The Constant Change

Heading North

Subtle Details

Camera Gear List

Argentina!

Illinois/Stoked

Lifestyle wallpaper

NEX-5r updates

FM2

Hansel

South Feather misc

Sigma 19mm Review

Running Free

Two words

Right Wrong Remix

Astral Brewer

Diane's October WP

Dragon Tree

Follow your head

Sorting, sorting

Breaking the Rules

RSS Feed

Fantasy Slide

Thomas's B-day

South Fork Feather

The right wrong

Birthday wallpaper

Calendar/D600

Scenery & Stuff

Tools

D600

A99 commentary

Fixing links

Out of Town

Stikine Wallpaper

Camping

Urban Moon

NEX-5R

Texture

2013 Calendar not quite

Any camera

2013 Calendar

Mighty Klamath

Kyotsu Wallpaper

Ligare

Spin

Green again

Captain Challenge

Drytop Test Challenge

The Leaves

Capitol Moonrise

Colorado Captain

Flying Squirrel

Green Wallpaper

lifestyle

no name

a different side

upgrade path

4th of July

NF Moke

Dropping In

At the river

Stikine Wallpaper

Camping

Fader

Shangri-la wallpaper

Progression 2

Progression

Dinkey Rok Wallpaper

Lower Deer Creek

Deer Wallpaper

Into the unkown

almost

FWT + Yuba Gap

Dinkey Wallpaper

Black and not quite

Snowy Box Canyon

UMC Wallpaper

Storm Clouds

Sutter Buttes

Flying wallpaper

Barking Dog

Talung Wallpaper

French tutorials

NEX-5N Firmware

Wooley Creek Wallpaper

Common Sense

The Longest Road

Siang Dreams

little city

subtle

Reflections

2/13 Wallpaper

Clear Creek

2/7 updates

Taylor UMC Wallpaper

More Shasta

Four Deaths

Tamron 17-50

Piaxtla Wallpaper

In Color

B&W Mix up

Nikkor 24-70

Siang Wallpaper

Smith Pano

NF Smith Wallpaper

Stars Wallpaper

rain!

30

Mistletoe

Jonas Wallpaper

The Future

Spirit of Adventure

Lunar Ghost

Lunar Eclipse

Cody Wallpaper

Watershed

Wallpaper, other.

NF Wallpaper

Behind the scenes

For Sale

Drew Wallpaper

Thigh Hooks

85mm f/1.4

Oakland

Jackson Wallpaper

Headed Home

Rwenzori Four

Elena Hut

Werner Wallpaper

Bujuku Hut

The Green

Tied for First

Rwenzori One

South East 2

Kokatat Wallpaper

South East 1

Moonscape

Centennial

Not Davis

Davis

Safari

Red Barn

Pit River

Clean Water

Overnight Gear

Itunda

Dead Dutchman

Bujagali

BRG

Talung 3

Talung 2

Night & Misc

135 DC 2

135 DC

Talung

82 updates

Camping Wallpaper

Quote & Updates

Scott Valley

Backpacking

DPP Beta

Wallpaper

Japan Diaries

Dark Side

Rapid Mag

72

UCC

TS Q&A

EFK TS

Japan 3

Japan 2

Fantasy

65

South Silver

Japan 1

Seasonal Update

70-300VR

4th of July

TS Loop

BK

NFMF

300mm f/4.5

Gay Wave

52mm f/2 AI

53

Cowbell

51

Pakistan 2

Mill

Big secret

50mm AF-D

Silver Fork

Pakistan

#44

Back

#42

Teesta Four

Sony 16mm f/2.8

The road

Fishing

Silver Creek

Lobster Pot 2

Lobster Pot

A great paddler?

Kern River Fest

Jason Craig

Sunday

Teesta Three

The Wave

Teesta Two

Teesta One

Deer Creek

UMC T/S

Rainy Days

Bear River TS

What's in an edit?

Siang River

T/S Webber

Shot o the day

Change

Squaw Valley Creek

North Fork Cosumnes

Nikkor 28mm f/2

Random

Updated Tutorial #2

Tilt/Shift

Siang

Panning shot

New River Update

24mm 2.8

Weaverville Stars

Two lens reviews

Night Photography

Stars at Castle Lake

Going with it.

Lohit image

First

 
The Third Annual Whitewater Photography Competition presented by Adventure Technology.

Thanks to Gareth Tate and Adventure Technology who will award a paddle of choice to the champion.

Immersion Research also has some love for the competition with a pair of Tangerine Guide Shorts and Supafly Zinger Shorts.

Here we are with the results for round 1.5.

Bracket 6: L & M

Clay: L: Not because it's great, not sure it's in focus,  but it's an attempt at great to feature the spectators.. but they are posing for the photo rather than watching the kayaker.  I think it says a lot about our sport and the attraction people have / don't have to it.  M: The Gunnison shot is OK, but the gorge is the highlight not the falls so I wish the shot were vertical with more crack in it.
Darin: L: Like Clay I don't think L is in focus, or the lens is stopped down deep into diffraction territory. The idea for the shot is interesting, but I don't like the execution. The choice of an UWA lens is bad for people, there is too much distortion going on, giving the photograph and awkward look. On top of that it's just straight up bad lighting at mid day. When it comes to women in sports I'm a big fan of them doing the sport and excelling at it, rather than being cheerleaders. M: I really like the composition of this photo. Excluding the sky keeps the eye focused on the paddler, I like the big rocks in the foreground too. I dislike the fake tilt shift going on up top though, not into that at all. I'd say it's a bit heavily processed for my taste with the excess vignetting, but it does make me want to go kayaking, I love the canyon.

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It's a split vote between the judges but M advances with the popular vote.



Bracket 7: O & P

Clay: The O shot is just ho hum chile maybe? Nice water but eh... P: The next shot is so much more interesting with the various lines you could run and the mood and the composition lines.
Darin: O: I like this shot a lot, it captures the key moment of action where form is good but you don't yet know if he is going to nail the boof, but you suspect it to be so. Kind of the foreshadowing of sports photography. My dislike would be how hard the shadows are crushed to absolute black, this looks like either Fuji Velvia 50 or a Nikon camera shooting jpg in vivid mode (note, I was wrong with either of those guesses). P: I'm a bit torn on this image. I like the lines with the bridge and curving waterfall. Urban kayaking doesn't have a draw to me but it's cool visually and nice to see something different. The processing is a bit too much to my taste as far as the super contrast on the paddler, but the top right 1/3 lacking same contrast, showing that manipulation has been done to the image. A slightly tighter crop removing the two paddlers on the left would really help, especially the one half in the frame, they're distracting. These two are a tough call, they are both some of the better images in this round, but overall I end up spending more time looking at O because the paddler is moving into empty space in the middle of the frame.

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It's a split vote between the judges but O advances with the popular vote.


Bracket 8: Q vs R

Clay: Q is a standout of the comp… brilliant stars alone make a great backdrop but add in the glow-stick trail over Maruia (sp) falls done so well and it’s a show stopper.   4 boats with one glow stick?  One boat with 4 glowsticks? Was the underwater red glow because they were upside down or set in advance?   A lot to think about while watching the stars… R is a fine image!  Kinda sad to discount it as the colors are well-matched, paddle placement perfect, the bow is riding up off that pillow / curl so nice and there does seem to be some risk of hitting the bottom rock at this angle.  Q is the winner for originality and the challenge of the execution but this one is a great shot too.
Darin: Q: I'm a bit more ambivalent about Q than Clay is. Over the last couple years we've seen some pretty cool glow-stick and kayaking images from outlines of paddlers to squirt boating to the anatomy of a stroke. Still it's cool to see the stars and something different. R: It has nice exposure, good light and colors, but the kayaker is just too much in the center of the frame with lots of dead space behind him. This one could have really used a tighter crop.


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The public poll matches our optionions and Q advances.



Stay tuned for an upate in the next few days!

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