Het Perfecte Plaatje: the semi-final in Iceland
Wednesday 14 December 2022, 22:55 by Elja Trum | 5,738 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Tonight was the second-to-last episode of Het Perfecte Plaatje. In this semi-final, the three remaining Dutch celebrities competed for a place in the final. In Iceland, they were allowed to capture an alien landscape and photograph Icelandic horses.
Alien landscape
The first assignment in Iceland was to capture an alien landscape. That doesn't sound too difficult in such a beautiful and special country for photographers.
Landscape photographer Bas Meelker joined the trip to give the candidates some tips, and he was also the guest judge for this shoot.
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For this shoot, the Dutch celebrities worked with the Canon EOS R6. They had several lenses at their disposal. Geraldine chose the RF 24-105mm f/4L, a standard zoom that gives you plenty of varied options.
Linda shot her alien landscape with an RF 14-35mm f/4L wide-angle lens, while Tina also chose a wide-angle lens, the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L. That 16-35mm is a lens with an EF mount, but with an adapter it can be used on the RF mount without any problems or loss of quality.
f/8, 1/1,000s, 160 ISO
Geraldine won this shoot by a convincing margin. Quite rightly so, in my opinion. I also noticed that the contestants did not choose to add a colour tint to their photos.
Geraldine seems to have reduced her saturation a little. I think that helps to give the image an alien feel. Adding more of a reddish-brown tint, for example, would soon have given it a Mars-like feel.
Icelandic Horse Diptych
The second assignment was to create a diptych of Icelandic horses. For this assignment, both an overview shot and a close-up had to be taken.
The guest judge for this shoot was horse photographer Eliane van Schaik. She also gave the contestants some tips for photographing horses.
For this shoot, the Dutch celebrities were allowed to work with the Canon EOS 90D DSLR. They used the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 on it, an excellent, though rather heavy, lens for a session like this, I think. They could also use the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L wide-angle zoom or the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8.
f/2.8, 1/800s, 320 ISO
Linda won this shoot with her diptych. The atmospheric photo of the ear stood out in particular. With the other photo, the jury mainly complained about distracting power cables in the frame. Linda probably could have removed those quite easily in Lightroom.
Next Wednesday evening is the final of Het Perfecte Plaatje 2022. We'll see whether Linda or Geraldine takes home the prize.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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2 comments
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Fred wrote on Tuesday 20 December 2022 at 14:37 | replyI like watching The Perfect Picture and I also like reading the article about it here on the site. I do find it a pity that in the above and previous articles actually only a summary of the broadcast is given. We have all seen those, so that is redundant.
Translated from Dutch.
This article would have significant added value if it went into the errors in the photo.
For example, everyone commented that the detail photo was not sharp, and that in a semi-final....ouch... But why was it not sharp? Shutter speed too slow? Camera moved or was there more to it because zooming in and the distance created a very small area of sharpness?
Those are the kinds of things that in my view would complete the article and also make it useful for the readers on photofacts. Perhaps a tip for next season? -
Elja Trum
wrote on Tuesday 20 December 2022 at 15:37
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Thanks for your response, Fred!
Translated from Dutch.
Good idea to go into more detail about what went wrong and why that might have been.
Of course, we are also limited by what we see in the broadcast and in the photos themselves.
In terms of the sharpness that the detail photos, it seems to have mainly been a case of 'focusing in the wrong place'. The shutter speed does always seem to be high enough to prevent motion blur.
Probably in combination with a shallow depth of field (large aperture) AND wanting to get close to it. Your area of sharpness is then really very small and focusing in just the wrong place (especially when shot handheld) happens very quickly.
Shooting at f/4 or f/5.6 instead of f/2.8 can already help a lot. Of course, you do then have to keep an eye on the shutter speed, because motion blur becomes an issue again.
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