Ålesund National Digital Competition 2010

The image Karl Johansgate got a Honourable Mention Award in the national competition arranged by Ålesund Kameraklubb here in Norway.

232 images had been submitted from 58 photographers.

You can view the images and the result list HERE.

I'm just happy that the spring is finally here :-)

I've been awfully quiet...

I am trying to put together a Blurb book and it is really more difficult than I thought. But I have been very inspired by Susan Hayre Thelwell.

Tonight we got the results from the spring competition in Oslo Kamera Klubb, and the image that I am using for the cover of my book won first place in one of the five categories. A pleasant surprise!
The image, and also the book, is called "Folk".

I also won a third place, and two of my other images were accepted so that is 4 out of 6 were awarded.

The images were as follows:

1st place:

"Folk"












3rd place:

"Travelling"

















Accepted:

"Rope Swing"

"Ice Skaters"

Autumn Competition Results in Oslo Kamera Klubb

"Homeward Bound"

"Dream"

"Cones"

"Beach House"

All my collections were awarded so pretty pleased with that. :-)

Summing up POTY 2009 in Oslo Kamera Klubb

The longest lasting challenge of the year is the weekly submissions to the "Photographer of the Week" contest in the camera club. There are two categories - digital and paper.
The competition ended yesterday and I landed a second place in the digital category. 13 points, just one point below Roy who won with 14 points.  I love the exitement!

These are my awarded images (from both categories).

January 5th: "Doors" - 3rd

January 13th: "Water" - 2nd

Jan 27nd: "Under-Over-From Behind" - 3rd

February 2nd: "Triptych" - 2nd

February 16th: "Square" - 3rd

September 14th: "Stone" - 3rd

September 21st: "Style" - 1st

October 12th: "Texture" - 3rd

October 20th: (No subject) 2nd

November 3rd: "Reflection" - 1st

December 1st: "Portrait" - 2nd

Norwegian Photographic Society

My "Kindergarten" picture was accepted in the 2009 autumn national competition.

This is a shot from my neighborhood. The text on the door to the left means "Kindergarten".

To me, this emphasizes the value of beeing in a camera club. In an earlier meeting we were allowed to bring the photos we were considering to use. I brought a version of this wall, but without the child. The feedback i got was that the message would be stronger if there was also a child in the image. So I went back after work and waited. This is the result.

I can't wait to see the rest of the awarded images on Flickr now! Search for NSFF KU and you will mimimum find the images from the spring competition.

The International Biennale in Indonesia

17 countries participated and Norway came in 7th. My image "Jump" was selected for Norways national team. It became one of the three Norwegian highest score images with 18 points each.

The contributing Norwegian photographeres were as follows.

Read the article HERE

Go directly to the Norwegian contributed images HERE

Yay! Picture of the week today!

Every week we have an informal competition in the camera club. Usually it is the photographer who shows his or her pictures who is the sole jury. The subject today was "reflection" and I won with this shot which you can read more about HERE. I am until further notice ranked second in the Photographer of the year competition. Trying to shake KRISTIN off. But overall she is still ahead of me :-)

Today's photographer was Torkil Færø. Who is a freelance doctor and photographer. You can see a few of his famous shots in this article (in Norwegian) HERE.

Yay! Came in 2nd yesterday!

 I came in 2nd yesterday in the "Picture of the week" competition in OSLO KAMERA KLUBB.

Texture and Stone

Every week we have an informal mini-competition in Oslo Kamera Klubb. Yesterday I came in third with this shot of a car hood.

Picture of the Week in Oslo Kamera Klubb

I received the book William Eggleston's Guide by John Szarkowski as the prize - looking forward to digging into it!

Pottery in Black & White

This picture is from my friends pottery, and I am working on a series to document her throwing process. I used only window light and a reflector which results in a highlights/shadows challenge.

Very proud to have achieved a Picture-of-the week award with an online photography magazine that has 700,000 unique visitors per week. Can't wait to get the canvas print home!

Here are the details from the black & white conversion, assuming you have a basic knowledge of Photoshop.

1) Shadows/highlights: I pulled the hightlights in to 17 but left the shadows at 0. (With Image->Mode: 16-bit, Layer->convert to smart filters, Image->Adjust

2) Levels adjustment layer, pulled the white bar in to 240

3) Black & White layer: R20, Y59, G41, C75, B23 and M36. I just pulled back and forth really until I liked the result

4) Sometimes I increase the contrast a bit with a layer but didn't here

5) Resize to 600 or 1000 px or an appropriate web size

6) Sharpen with High pass, approx 2-3. After Merge visible, Blending mode: soft light, Opacity maybe 80-90

7) Sharpen a little more with USM

The "Vika Boy" got a silver award

This is from Vika in Oslo, where some scenes from the film Max Manus was filmed. The story is from the war years 1940-45. I think the background with the truck and bicycles adds to the war time mood.

A smoke machine had been used, which made the background more diffused.

I added a sepia treatment in photoshop using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

Tick Colorize, then set Hue to 35 og Saturation to 20.

I received a Silver Award in the digital class in the spring competition 2009 of the Norwegian Photographic Society (NSFF) with this picture.

1029 pictures were entered, by 156 amateur photographers and 26 clubs.

But there was more:

Highly Commended (Hederlig Omtale):

JUMP! (Hopp!)

Accepted (Antatt):

SPRAY PAINTING (Spraymaling)

ON THE TRAM (På trikken)

AUTUMN OF LIFE (Livets Høst)

Especially pleased since this was the first time I entered in the competition. I got no 6 in Norway!

See all the competition pictures on Flickr.
See the result list at NSFF.

Oslo Kamera Klubb Spring Competition 2009

Tree images and one collection was accepted:

Spray Painting

Jump

Vikagutt

The Cone Heads

Second place in "Picture of the Month" for March 2009 at foto.no

Theme: Illusion

15th place in "Picture of the month" for December 2008 at foto.no

Theme: The Countryside (På landet)

We were on our way back to Arundel from a walk along the river Arun in West Sussex when this man came towards us. I turned around and got a few shots until the dog stopped, turned around and started staring at me with an evil eye.

Picture of the Week at Oslo Kamera Klubb

Very proud as it was my second meeting in the club and first time I dared entering a picture!

I had dropped Mr. E off at the airport and spent an hours or so with the camera before driving back down town.