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A big thank you to every photographer who participated in Grain SA/Sasol’s photo competition during 2017. Copies of all the 2017 win
ners’ entries were displayed at the Sasol Media Centre during the NAMPO Harvest Day. These are the overall winners for 2017:
Junie 2018
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Relevant
Photo competition
Don’t get misty-eyed
about your foggy photos
F
og is eerily beautiful and can add a meditative mood to any
landscape, making it seem mysterious. However, photo
graphs taken of a scenery immersed in amazing grey mist,
mostly fail to recreate what the photographer saw.
According to the website, h
ttp://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/
tip/4328/capture-photos-foggy-misty-conditions/
, the answer is that
on a foggy day, the air is full of water particles that redirect light rays.
The water particles do the same thing that a softbox does, only on a
much larger scale. The result is very subtle light.
In foggy conditions there is less light overall, which means longer
exposure times – not too long as fog is often moving, and shooting
it with exposures greater than one second, can result in blurry fog.
Shoot some images with your tripod and turn up your ISO and shoot
handheld for others to see which will give you the best results.
Fog is actually reflective, which can fool your camera’s metre into
thinking that there’s more light than there truly is, which results in
underexposed images. Add exposure compensation to foggy day
photographs – from +1 to +2.
As closer objects maintain more colour and contrast, it is important
to include something in the foreground of the landscape image to
help create depth and dimension.
If you know ahead of time what challenges the conditions will pose,
you will be able to use them to your advantage and capture a set of
beautiful, moody photographs.
Reference
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/4328/capture-photos-
foggy-misty-conditions/.
SA Graan/Grain editorial staff
Prize money of R1 500 was awarded to
Renette van der Merwe from Kockspark in
the April competition. She captured the
theme of symbiosis with a photograph of
a butterfly on a bottlebrush taken in the
Parys area.
Congratulations on this excellent achievement on behalf of Sasol and Grain SA.
Winner: The photograph of little
Mischa Batt holding a bummer lamb
was voted as overall best photograph
for 2017. Chrismari van der Westhuizen
from Loeriesfontein receives R15 000
for capturing this tender moment.
2nd: Charlotte Pistorius from Nigel
receives the second prize of R10 000
with her photograph of a worn-down
building in the Nigel district.
3rd: The striking photograph of the day
breaking on a farm receives the third
prize of R5 000. It was taken by Wessel
Wessels from Brackenfell.
2017 WINNER
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Winners of the
2017
Grain SA/Sasol photo competition