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Landscape Photographer of the Year 2023
Prizes:
- INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
- First Prize of US $5,000
- Second Prize of US $1,000
- Third Prize of US $500
- INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR
- First Prize of US $2,000
- Second Prize of US $1,000
- Third Prize of US $500
Image requirements: AdobeRGB colour space, 8-bit; between 4000 and 5000 pixels on the longest side, 300 dpi; JPEG format (recommended setting 9 or 10).
Online submission of digital photographs via the website.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FOR YOU:
No matter how good your camera is, if the lens you have mounted on it is poor, you will get equally poor results. Lenses are like your eyes – if you have bad vision, the picture you see is going to be blurry. Therefore, it is extremely important to use lenses that have high levels of sharpness across the frame, good contrast, minimal ghosting and flare and other lens aberrations that can hurt your images. It is also important to make sure that your lenses are free from decentering issues that could damage all or parts of your images. When photographing portraits, the corner performance of lenses is typically not important – your subject is going to be close to the center of the frame most of the time. However, when it comes to landscape photography, corner sharpness becomes far more important, since foreground elements can be located on the lower part of the frame and sometimes even touch corners. That’s why it is important to look beyond center performance of lenses when evaluating them for landscape photography. While selecting lenses, you have two selections – zoom lenses and prime / fixed lenses. For landscape photography, prime lenses used to be the number one choice (and still are for medium and large format cameras). However, with the latest advancements in optical technology, manufacturers are able to produce exceptionally good zoom lenses that can match and sometimes even surpass the quality and sharpness of some prime lenses. Zoom lenses have a big advantage over prime lenses due to their ability to zoom in / out, which I personally find very important for landscape photography. I have been in many situations, where I had to stand at a particular spot and could not physically move to frame my shot. In such situations, it is helpful to be able to use a zoom lens to get proper framing. I personally often carry both with me, which gives me greater flexibility, but if I were to choose only one lens, it would certainly be a zoom. Unfortunately, for medium format and large format systems out there, prime lenses are often the only choices that are available.
No matter how good your camera is, if the lens you have mounted on it is poor, you will get equally poor results. Lenses are like your eyes – if you have bad vision, the picture you see is going to be blurry. Therefore, it is extremely important to use lenses that have high levels of sharpness across the frame, good contrast, minimal ghosting and flare and other lens aberrations that can hurt your images. It is also important to make sure that your lenses are free from decentering issues that could damage all or parts of your images. When photographing portraits, the corner performance of lenses is typically not important – your subject is going to be close to the center of the frame most of the time. However, when it comes to landscape photography, corner sharpness becomes far more important, since foreground elements can be located on the lower part of the frame and sometimes even touch corners. That’s why it is important to look beyond center performance of lenses when evaluating them for landscape photography. While selecting lenses, you have two selections – zoom lenses and prime / fixed lenses. For landscape photography, prime lenses used to be the number one choice (and still are for medium and large format cameras). However, with the latest advancements in optical technology, manufacturers are able to produce exceptionally good zoom lenses that can match and sometimes even surpass the quality and sharpness of some prime lenses. Zoom lenses have a big advantage over prime lenses due to their ability to zoom in / out, which I personally find very important for landscape photography. I have been in many situations, where I had to stand at a particular spot and could not physically move to frame my shot. In such situations, it is helpful to be able to use a zoom lens to get proper framing. I personally often carry both with me, which gives me greater flexibility, but if I were to choose only one lens, it would certainly be a zoom. Unfortunately, for medium format and large format systems out there, prime lenses are often the only choices that are available.