"Best of Part I" Nominations

[Greg]

Use this thread to nominate an AZer's picture for a "Best of Part I" photo contest. Please post the member's username and copy the image code from [thread="22622"]this thread[/thread] here. You can easily get the BBCode and image URL by quoting their post.

One nominee per member. If your favorite pic has already been nominated, please don't nominate another one as I would like to keep the number of nominees to a minimum. Once we get 10 or 15 nominees, I'll start a poll. The winner of the poll will receive a pair of lift tickets to Sugarbush!

 

[billski]

nominate awf170. The essence of Season One: Deep and sweet. We all found it somewhere....
These conditions could be found all over the NE.

 

[thinnmann]

That IS a great shot. The interesting things about that shot:
1. The depth of focus, from the detail at close focus of the strands on the chair cable to the trees on the next mountain.
2. At first look, a viewer can feel like they are there, on the chair watching the skier, which puts us actively into the photo - but the reality is that the photo was taken from a perspective that is higher than the cable! The real perspective is not obvious at first, which is why it is cool. Either awf170 was on the tower itself or standing on a chute we can envy.
3. The subject: One Lone Skier - man and the mountain - the essence of what we do....

 

[JasonE]

Holy crap. You could license that photo to be put in prints to hang on walls in ski lodges and condos everywhere. Seriously. I'd pay for a print of that without hesitation!

What a beautiful, stunning shot. If this wasn't a professional photographer, then it was an amateur with an amazing eye for composition.

 

[BeanoNYC]

By far my favorite reports to read and pictures to see come from Powderfreak. Here's just one of many.

Edit: Sorry Greg, I just reread your post. I didn't know you wanted pictures from the other thread. I'll pull this pic if you want.

 

[awf170]

That IS a great shot. The interesting things about that shot:
1. The depth of focus, from the detail at close focus of the strands on the chair cable to the trees on the next mountain.
2. At first look, a viewer can feel like they are there, on the chair watching the skier, which puts us actively into the photo - but the reality is that the photo was taken from a perspective that is higher than the cable! The real perspective is not obvious at first, which is why it is cool. Either awf170 was on the tower itself or standing on a chute we can envy.
3. The subject: One Lone Skier - man and the mountain - the essence of what we do....

Holy crap. You could license that photo to be put in prints to hang on walls in ski lodges and condos everywhere. Seriously. I'd pay for a print of that without hesitation!

What a beautiful, stunning shot. If this wasn't a professional photographer, then it was an amateur with an amazing eye for composition.

Heh, you guys are giving me way to much confidence in photography skills. I know nothing about photography, it was just a lucky shot. I was standing up at Stark's nest and saw a skier coming down so I jumped up, grabbed my camera and starting shooting. After that I just did about 20 seconds of cropping and selected "auto fix" for colors and saturation.

 

[Hawkshot99]

The great close up scene, the foggy valley, and the far off mountains...

 

[MRGisevil]

Nominating awf170, just think this is a phenomenal shot:

 

[BLESS]

Heh, you guys are giving me way to much confidence in photography skills. I know nothing about photography, it was just a lucky shot. I was standing up at Stark's nest and saw a skier coming down so I jumped up, grabbed my camera and starting shooting. After that I just did about 20 seconds of cropping and selected "auto fix" for colors and saturation.

those seem to be the best shots I take....the spur of the moment ones. Great shot. Blow it up, mat it, frame it, hang it.

 

[Greg]

Any more nominations?

 

[davidhowland14]

I'd like to request the full size version of awf170's shot so I can print it full size.

his mad river shot, that is

 

[awf170]

I'd like to request the full size version of awf170's shot so I can print it full size.

his mad river shot, that is

That will be $5 please. :razz:

Anyways, sadly I don't have it on my home computer right now. It is on my laptop, which doesn't have a connection to the internet. I could transfer it over on my flash drive, but I'm going out in like 5 minutes, then tomorrow I'm leaving to go out west for a week. I might do it tomorrow morning but don't get your hopes up. Send me a PM or something around the 26th (when I get home) to remind me to send it to you.

I bet transferring the file to this computer would have taken just as long as that response... oh well :dunce:

So yeah just send me your email and I will get it to you ASAP (or a week or two later)

Also, I'll post up the original version that pic if any real photogs want to work with it. I bet with a little editing you get a good amount better version.

 

[billski]

so where's the vote? who won? What did I miss while I was out skiing???

 

[Greg]

so where's the vote? who won? What did I miss while I was out skiing???

Was hoping for a few more nominations, but here we go:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/23113-vote-here-best-part-i-photo-contest.html