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LevT


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Long Shadows (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: DJI Mavic Air 2
Location: La Jolla
Date: Oct 17, 2022
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Water, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Oct 18, 2022

Obviously, drone owners had an unfair advantage in this challenge. Maybe Anita is right and they should've been explicitly banned for this challenge to level the playing field ;). But since they weren't, this was the first and obvious idea that came to my mind. Very easy for me to do, just drive 15 minutes to the beach and launch my drone, there are always people there enjoying sunset. Right. Unfortunately, the first week I procrastinated, and when I ginally decided to go out to the beach and shoot it, the weather turned cloudy, and stayed cloudy for the next 6 days. No shadows! I thought I would not be able to shoot it, but on the last day miraculously the sun came out, and so I grabbed this shot. Phew!

Thank you for the ribbon and a very high score. In fact, it stayed above 8 for 5 days straight and only went south yesterday... Oh well. Still, my new PB! First time in 11 years! :)

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 24
Avg (all users): 7.9032
Avg (participants): 7.8889
Avg (non-participants): 7.9091
Views since voting: 587
Views during voting: 78
Votes: 31
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0


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10/28/2022 10:58:00 AM
Originally posted by PenelopeK:

Lovely photo, Lev. However, I keep getting hung up on not being able to reconcile the apparently full skirt, as indicated by the white circle around the right hand figure, with the shape showing in the shadow!.
Thanks Penelope! What can I say... you're right, it does look puzzling. But I didn't touch anything there for sure, it is basically straight out of my drone's camera. I wish I could look closely at the original and maybe some other shots I made there, but I'm traveling now without access to my archive
10/27/2022 11:35:58 AM
Lovely photo, Lev. However, I keep getting hung up on not being able to reconcile the apparently full skirt, as indicated by the white circle around the right hand figure, with the shape showing in the shadow!.
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10/26/2022 08:06:01 PM
Look at that score, Lev!!

I’m happy to have raised it during voting.

This is perfection.
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10/26/2022 08:05:58 PM
Look at that score, Lev!!

I’m happy to have raised it during voting.

This is perfection.
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10/26/2022 10:08:25 AM
This was just a drone-friendly challenge. Other challenges may be friendly to someone who has a full frame camera and expensive lenses (Bokeh) or access to exotic subjects. I have a drone as well, and if I'd been traveling to someplace interesting that week, I may have entered a drone shot as well. I also think the drone shots will be harder to score highly with as they become more common.
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10/26/2022 09:37:30 AM
Wow I didn’t even notice how high your score was and that alone a personal best. But to tell the truth you have shot way better pictures than this. I’m kind of astonished to tell the truth. No offence to you really. It’s what the voters see.

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10/26/2022 08:44:55 AM
This is so cool! A wonderful photograph.
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10/26/2022 05:43:36 AM
Congratulations! It was one of my top scores.
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10/26/2022 03:54:54 AM
Congratulations on the ribbon and PB.
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10/26/2022 12:06:47 AM
I knew this was yours :)

Congrats. We were away and staying on the 16th floor in an apartment overlooking the beach, I tried to emulate this but I had no drone and just my 50mm lens on me, it looked nothing like yours.
Only a drone could do this, maybe we should ban them hehe.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/24/2022 09:29:37 AM
Very neat. Perfect for this challenge.
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10/21/2022 06:49:52 AM
Stunning
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10/19/2022 08:45:05 PM
I knew there would be one drone shot depicting something like this :)
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10/19/2022 06:50:20 AM
I love this!
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