Macro Photo Competition 2014 No 5 : Results

  • Competition Winner : First Prize
  • $198.00 and a Leica C worth $700
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Well the year starts well for you with this wonderful picture of this little fly in the dew. Very good job, the composition is very good, colors are really nice, the development is perfect and the background is superb. Again congratulations to you for this great work.
  • Photographers Comment
  • Thank you so much and very nice comment too. My name is Richard Kubica and I am from Slovakia. I specialized in the macro photography. This photo was taken with Canon EOS 600D and lens was Canon 100/2,8 macro USM with Raynox DCR-250. I used these setting on camera: ISO: 100, F/10, 1/200s. It is composed from 4 photos stacked in photoshop cs4. I have used simply modification like contrast, tones and sharpness at the end. This photo was taken in little lake Brestovská priehrada close to Myjava (SLOVAKIA) about 5:45 am. I am really surprise fort the first place. Thank you again .
  • 500px.com/ricikubica
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Great photo of the jumping spider, the composition is well thought out, the sharpness is superb and the colors are amazing. The focus is really good, because it is not easy on these small spiders! Just a great shot!
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Superb picture of this butterfly drowned in a beautiful background. The grand opening was a good choice to bring out the butterfly. The colors are beautiful and the sharpness on the subject. Great art!
  • Photographers Comment
  • Thanks to the judge for these Mark Of Excellence! My name is Frantisek Dulik, I am from Slovakia. Picture was taken 10.8.2014, 5:34 with EOS 70D and EF 180/3,5L Macro lens in Slovensky Raj /Slovak Paradise/. Exposure setting: ISO 400, f/3.5, 1/100 sec. For post-processing I used PS Lightroom. Thanks a lot!
  • 500px.com/FrantiekDulk
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, what a beautiful picture of this ant! Beautiful mastery of focus stacking, sharpness is Breathtaking, blacks are very well managed and the details are amazing, it looks 3D. Just beautiful !!!
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Congratulations on this beautiful photo of these two butterflies. The composition is very good, colors are soft and natural, sharpness is very good too.
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Superb picture of this dragonfly, sharpness is very good, colors are very natural, I would have just left a little more space downstairs for not cutting the wing, but it's a wonderful picture. Congratulations.
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, Beautiful picture of this dewy fly. The colors are beautiful, the sharpness is really good. I find the picture just a bit too centered but that's a detail. Congratulations.
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, beautiful photo in this cat's eye, the focus is where it is necessary, sharpness is incredible. Congratulations.
  • Photographers Comment
  • Thanks for the Mark of Excellence - given the great pictures in this competition I am truly glad to be in the top list! I thought to compete with something different than insects since there are many great photographers with much more patience than I have in that area. I decided to catch McLovin (my tomcat) while looking out of the window and took a close-up of his eye with my Olympus E-M1 and the M.Zuiko 60mm Macro lens. The shot was handheld and I was lucky that the autofocus locked exactly where I wated it to be. Visit me on my homepage or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ultraweitverwinkelt). Thanks and cheers! Pierre
  • ultraweit-verwinkelt.net
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, jack of this beautiful blue butterfly, sharpness is very good and the focus is perfect. Congratulations.
  • Mark Of Excellence
  • Judges Comment
  • First of all, a very good year to you, congratulations for this beautiful pictures, warm colors are really well managed and the background is beautiful.