I took part in a little photo competition (without prices, just for fun) with the topic “structures” at a local photo club. Alltogether we had about 40 photographs to review, all of them mounted in passe-partouts. Great and really beautiful photos, you could have put all of them in a public exposition. It was hard to select only a few of them.

I presented three, two black and white photos shot with my D90 which I considered quite good, photographically.

None of them were selected. The snow photo did not get any points, the other one at least some. The third photo was selected as 8th. This was interesting for me as I only include this photo because the structures of the ice are interesting, but photographically I did not consider it worth to mention.

This was shot with my old Nikon F50 a few years ago with a Tamron 28-200 and a close up lens in the pyrenees. There where shadow in the valley so the aperture was as open as possible. The leaf is outside the sharp plane and the sharpness is dropping off visibly towards the corners. The negative was scanned with a Crystalscan negative scanner (with ICE technology) and sharpened dramatically afterwards. There is visible color noise, especially in the darker and unsharp areas, but the quality is ok to print it on A4 or even a bigger as the observation distance will be at least 0.5m.