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How I Took that Shot – Karina Leeson

Karina Leeson won first place in Grade C, with the intriguing and colourful image above, in our recent ‘Colour Burst’ competition held at The Midleton Park Hotel on 06/09/17. This is how she made the image:

This image took quite a bit of time to do but was great fun.

First I got 2 chairs and positioned them a few inches apart and lay the glass from a picture frame across the gap. Then I laid some coloured paper on the ground below the glass. I placed a table lamp on the ground with the light shining on the coloured paper. Next I filled a clear glass bowl with water, poured a few drops of oil in the water and placed the bowl on top of the glass. With the camera positioned on a tripod above the set up I got to work. I took lots of shots with different coloured sheets and wasn’t happy with the colours I was getting. It just wasn’t vibrant enough.

I was trying to find some really vibrant coloured paper when I remembered the new shower curtain I had bought. It was multi colured stripes and when I laid it on the ground below my setup it gave exactly the effect I had hoped for.

Well done Karina!

See also:
How I took that Shot – Gráinne Davies
How I took that Shot – Zane Llewellyn
Competition Gallery
Competition Results and 2016 League Table

 

How I Took that Shot – Karina Leeson

Newcomer to East Cork Camera Group, Karina Leeson, had a fantastic run in her first competition with the shot below which won her not only first place in Grade C but also third place in the overall scores across all three Grades in our recent ‘Transport’ competition. Well done Karina! This is how she did it:

06 Karina Leeson - Transport

This image was definitely a lesson in patience as it took quite a few tries to get right. I set up the tripod in the back seat of the car with 2 legs on the floor and one leg on the back seat. I used a remote trigger and set a 10 second delay with the self timer in order to give myself time to start driving and get positioned steady before the shot. Each time I pulled the car in and hopped into the back seat to see the results.

I did this a few times as the exposure was turning out either too bright or too dark. I adjusted the settings until eventually I got an image that I was happy with. In Lightroom I adjusted the exposure a little bit as it was slightly overexposed. I also sharpened the image and increased the clarity.

Taken on Canon EOS 60D, Canon 18-135mm at 18mm. Aperture 5.0, ISO 100, 5 second shutter exposure.

 – Karina Leeson

See also:
How I took that Shot – Finbarr O’Shea
How I took that Shot – Keith Johnson
Competition Gallery
Competition Results and 2016 League Table

ECCG ‘Transport’ Competition – 07/06/2016

‘Transport’ was the theme of our fourth and latest internal competition of 2016 held at the Midleton Park Hotel on Tuesday 07/06/16. Following two viewings of the eighteen entries, marks were awarded which yielded a close run result especially in Grade B where only one point separated first and second. The results were as follows:

Scores

Gaining his second first place in a row, Finbarr O’Shea took the honours in Grade A  while Anthony O’Connor and Denis Barry came second and third.

With two wins already under his belt for the year, Keith Johnson made it three by winning Grade B. Jim O’Neil was second and Noelle Lowney third.

Newcomer, Karina Leeson, made an outstanding debut in ECCG competition by winning Grade C with a score of 318 points which also landed her third in the overall placings. Well done Karina!. Eileen Upton and Jim Curtin came second and third respectively in Grade C.

In the overall high scores across all three Grades, Finbarr O’Shea, Anthony O’Connor and Karina Leeson took the honours.

Well done to all entrants, especially those new members entering for the first time, and congratulations to those who gained valuable points towards this year’s Photographer of the Year competition.

The image below is the overall highest scoring image by Finbarr O’Shea. Click the image to see all the entries. Enjoy!

See also:
How I took that Shot – Finbarr O’Shea
How I took that Shot – Keith Johnson
How I took that Shot – Karina Leeson
Competition Gallery
Competition Results and 2016 League Table