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Grand Prize
1 | Byron Towles, Bronx, NY
Byron Towles of Bronx, NY, created this winning digital composite of a Great
Blue Heron using a Canon EOS A2 camera. He shot the bird with a 300mm lens and
a 1.4x teleconverter, and used a 600mm mirror lens for the sun.
2 | David Gralian, Chandler, AZ
did an excellent job of combining the early evening ambient light with the glow
of a fire to create this sublime environmental portrait. Not an easy task, but
very well executed. David used a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR with a long exposure
of 0.6 sec. at f/4. His ISO setting was 400.
3 | Jeffrey R. Botkin, Park City, UT
proves that a little orange can go a long way, with this interesting image of
a flywheel. David used a Canon EOS 3 AF 35mm SLR with a 100mm macro lens. His
exposure was unrecorded. Jeffrey “adjusted” the image with Adobe
Photoshop Elements 3.0 before making the print with his Epson Stylus Photo 2200.
4 | Sylvia Patton, Los Angeles, CA
used a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D digital SLR with a 24–105mm zoom to capture
this image; our favorite of the many photos submitted of the Christo/Jeanne
Claude exhibit in New York’s Central Park. The display consisted of some
7500 orange (well, saffron) gates covering 23 miles of walkway. Sylvia’s
exposure was 1/300 at f/8 with an ISO 100 setting.
5 | Bill Rastetter, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
created this tasty shot of an orange using a tripod-mounted Canon EOS D30 digital
SLR with a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro lens at f/32 (his shutter speed was
unrecorded). He lit the scene with a 1000 W softbox and “filled”
with a reflector from the shadow side of the fruit.
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