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Round 3 Results
Round 3 Round 2 Results Round 2 Wildcard Round 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.
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Comments are a little different this round. Clay Wright is commenting on each as a set, while I'll go image by image. Bracket 1  This is easily my favorite of the round. There is a lot to like here,
the horizon and dark chasm of the unknown. The paddlers active
stroke and body position add to the tension, and then on top of it all
the texture on the rock is fantastic. The only downside is the amount
of white in the foreground. It would be an unusual crop, but maybe this
image calls for a panoramic crop?
& This image has a nice flow through it, water coming towards you then
moving to the right. The timing is just a fraction of a second late,
I'd like to see an aggressive boof stroke being planted, while this
looks a little relaxed/casual. Thankfully the paddlers downstream focus
pulls it together, you can tell that it's not all over here, which
gives it that critical sense of drama.
Clay on all four: Clearly the first shot is sicko with all that rock color and patterns and Dinosaur with Toby good too. F is OK but blown out both. Darin on all four: C has two images that are both great yet have a different look and feel.. Both in F have back light and a similar feel, it's a shame to have the arms blocking the face as it takes away a critical level of connection you might otherwise get.  Darin: There is a lot to like about this photograph, a nice boof stroke with a high sense of drama about what may happen downstream. Unfortunately it's quite hindered by bad light and the paddlers arm blocking their face. &  Darin: The back light and shallow depth of field are working for me here, I really like this image, but again the paddlers arm blocking their face is a massive detraction to the ascetic feel and connection you'd otherwise make to the paddler. C advances. Bracket 2
 Darin: I love a love hate affair with this photo. I absolutely love the place and the composition. The light, high levels of saturation and most of all, the paddler is just in an awkward position. You can tell he is nailing the boof yet it is too off for me, I'd like to see him about five feet further upstream taking a good stroke. &  I thoroughly enjoy this image. Aggressive paddle stroke and it's at the moment of anticipation. The inclusion of trees is nice and the paddler contrasts well with the settings. Clay: B - So much color and love
the grass off the rock in focus rather than the paddler on first
shot. That hole looks bizarre.. landing in eddy. Pink boat
accents the green so nice in the Norway shot. J - like the Idaho
shot as it takes me back, brake lights on a plus but the black n white
is just .. meh.
Darin: As a pair both are interesting sets. I like the first image of B more than J's first because of the setting, and I like the second image of J more than B. I could go either way on this set. I like the Idaho driving shot from J more than either of B's images, yet it's a round of two shots, and overall B's pair wins the round. VS  For some reason kayaking rarely looks good in B&W and this is no exception. I like the the paddler is in the sunlight while the rest is shade, but they are moving out of the frame and are between strokes, or ruddering. All the people downstream and on the side are distracting too. &  This beautifully captures the feel of Idaho. Nice light, landscape and composition. One of my favorite lifestyle images in some time! B advances. Bracket 3
 I love the scenery and light. So cool how the river appears that it's going to drop off the face of earth and into the valley around the bend. Love three paddlers in a row with similar strokes. Dislike the paddlers all over the place downstream and the rock in the foreground. I tried this as a 16:9 crop to get rid of the rock and found it more appealing. &  Darin: Great light and a fantastic place. The sense of drama is lost because the paddler is through the hole, so it ends up being more about scenery. Still lots of space to move into and it makes me want to be there. Clay: A is good group shot and
nice color on the western brown water thing - good shots, no problems
‘fun’. G is where I want to be . . . has that
vert drop (is that flat lick in KY?) with a nice tuck and that smoking
tight canyon where the trees are stacked up vertically — intruque
to the drops upstream and how the trees got there - clear winner!
Darin: I like both sets here, but overall I end up being drawn to G because the two images elicit different emotion, while both from A are as Clay said, fun. Nice, but not as much depth in the pair. VS
 I'm torn on this. Typically I don't like late in the moment shots, but this still has some drama because it looks like they are about to land in a painfully green pool. I also like how the ridge of water at the lip leads your eye to the paddler. &  I'd rather see the paddler moving towards me in the sunlight, but at the same time this is just a nice moment where the paddler is enjoying one of the most beautiful places I've seen. G advances. Comment
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