Your Best Photo of 2018 Assignment Winner Jeff Sullivan - Outdoor Photographer

Your Best Photo of 2018 Assignment Winner Jeff Sullivan - Outdoor Photographer: Congratulations to Jeff Sullivan for winning the recent Your Best Photo of 2018 Assignment with the image, “Golden Hour On the Oregon Coast...

Thank you for the honor Outdoor Photographer Magazine!

 See more of my Best of 2018 images here on my blog.

 Also see more images from my September 2018 trip to Oregon in another post on my blog.

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Congratulations to @jeffsullivanphotography for winning the recent Your Best Photo of 2018 Assignment with the image, Golden Hour on the Oregon Coast. “Sometimes, the most interesting photos we take are from a new location or from a fresh look at a place that we haven't visited in a long time,” says Sullivan. “In 2018, I took a 2,000-mile road trip to revisit some of my favorite places in Oregon. Although I lived in Oregon for years in the 1980s and revisited a lot in the mid to late 2000s, I hadn’t been to some of these places in years. I had a great time on this latest lap, but even with 2-plus weeks it wasn’t enough time, so I’ll just have to go back soon! “My main exposure here was 1/8th of a second at f/16, ISO 200, and that produced a useful result, but HDR processing in Photomatix provided more shadow detail and highlight color, for a better overall result. The images were adjusted in Adobe Lightroom prior to HDR processing, then additional adjustment was conducted afterward as well.” * * * #OPAssignments #Oregon #landscape_lovers #sky_captures #landscapephotography #fantastic_earth #landscape_captures #ic_landscapes #ig_exquisite #ourplanetdaily #landscape #landscapelovers #instanaturelover #welivetoexplore #allnatureshots #specialshots #landscapestyles #nature_perfection

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Photo of the Day on National Geographic Adventure

Ocean View Dining, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan (www.MyPhotoGuides.com).

Check it out!

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/daily-catch/adventure-photography

My photo of Horsetail Falls backlit at sunset appears 11 photos earlier in their lineup!

By the way, beware of the main National Geographic reader photo contests... read the terms carefully to understand what rights you may be giving away. They seem to allow people to download the winning images, which pretty much kills any commercial value that the image might have had for you in the future. In fact, by giving National Geographic a steady stream of free photographs, user submissions contribute to the death of a viable market for nature photographers. National Geographic used to be the one everyone always used to want to work for, now their practices may help put emerging professional nature photographers out of business?

On Display at the California State Fair

This image has been accepted for the art show and competition at the 2008 California State Fair in August and early September. Only a small fraction of works are accepted for inclusion, and I am honored to have my work selected by the judges.

This has been a good week. This second shot was selected as "Photo of the Month" in the California Parks Foundation photo contest, and they're considering a couple more of my shots for possible inclusion in their calendar.

Three "Photo of the Month" Awards on MyParkPhotos.com!

For the month of May my photos were honored in 3 of the 13 categories in the photo contest at MyParkPhotos.com:

Plant life: Baby Waterfall © Jeff Sullivan
Seasonal: Yosemite Falls Reflection at Night © Jeff Sullivan
Waterscapes: Moonbows in Lower Yosemite Falls © Jeff Sullivan

I'm particularly pleased when my photos are recognized there, as the site has 1000 members taking quality photos in the same places I do. Here are my photos that have been selected picture of the day, month, or year there: MyParkParkPhotos.com.

Second Place: Travel & Place Category of the BetterPhoto Photo contest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8/29/2007 Photographer Jeff Sullivan of Granite Bay, CA, has won Second Place for July in the prestigious photography contest sponsored by BetterPhoto.com, the site's founder, Jim Miotke, announced Wednesday.

More than 31100 entries were submitted to the online photography contest, which attracted contestants from around the world and featured 10 separate categories.

Sullivan's stunning image, "Morning Lights", garnered top honors after being submitted in the Travel & Place category.

All of the winning images can be viewed at BetterPhoto.com's contest page: http://www.betterphoto.com/contest/winners/0707.asp

The contest is conducted each month. Categories include Nature and Landscapes, Animals, People, Elements of Design, Digital Darkroom, Travel and Place, Flowers, Details and Macro, Catch-All, and Monthly Theme. Judging is performed by a panel of professional photographers.

Besides its free, popular photo contest, BetterPhoto.com also offers a variety of services: digital camera reviews, online photo courses, free newsletters, a discussion forum, Web sites for photographers, question-and-answer section, how-to articles, photo galleries, and more.

Photographers can enter this month's contest and learn more about photography at: www.BetterPhoto.com

Fall Photography Contest Winner

In 2006 the Sierra Sun newspaper in Truckee, California ran a Fall photo contest. Places were not awarded but I believe this was the only shot given a full page spread. It's an honor for me to do well in a Fall colors contest among local photographers in the Lake Tahoe area, given the wealth of shooting opportunities and the experience and local knowledge of the people living there.

This shot was taken on an outing to the Mono Lake area, not far from Yosemite's eastern entrance. I was in the Mill Creek drainage, which I had shot before, so I was looking for something different. This spring seemed like a great opportunity to put some motion and bring an element of time into the genre.

You can find basic Fall colors shooting tips in articles all over the Internet: use a polarizing filter to cut glare, underexpose by 1/3 stop to increase saturation, shoot at calm hours of the day, avoid mottled sunlight. What I never see mentioned, but you can notice in a high percentage of Fall colors still life shots (stop reading here if you don't want to notice soemthing quirky about these shots from now on) is that in photos, leaves have only fallen with the bright sides facing up! Surely gravity does not act differently in the Fall, but rather photographers eager to make their shots "just right" are at least arranging leaves, possibly collecting and carrying the best ones around and adding them to their shots. With a little searching you could probably find celebrity leaves, which make a cameo appearance in many different settings. This was one of my experiments with leaf arranging. In fact, I was collecting and carrying leaves for a few dozen yards before I finally found a good setting to photograph them in. To appease my own preference for realism I left a few token leaves "upside down," with their least colorful side up. It's realistic without being a simple stenographic copy of a time and place.