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 Posted: Sun Mar 3rd, 2013 03:55
Robert



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 The winning image has an incredible dot of focus, suggesting to me perhaps large format view camera with a wide lens or a short PC lens. It must have been meticulously planned because there would have been little time for test exposures. The Sun's rise waits for no man, not even a photographer...

Putting it another way I don't think it could have been a 'happy accident'! Looking at the practicality, the photographer needed to be set up and in position pretty early in what appears to be a very remote location.

I agree about the crops but were they the photographers crops, or added later during the creation of the presentation by some clueless editor. My take is that for the most part the images will have been framed in camera, so the 'un-cropped' images will have been the submitted images, the cropping occurring later, for 'effect'. For me the effect was a detrimental.



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