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"Movement" photo competition - these are the winners

Reading Time: 6 minutes - October 22, 2020 - by Melissa Stemmer

The photo competition started a new round with the theme "Movement" to coincide with the new issue of Schnappschuss magazine. We chose a topic that accompanies us every day: Movement. When we think of movement, we immediately think of physical activity. If we combine this topic with photography, then photography techniques come to mind to capture movement: Long exposures, dragging effects, freezing movements or the field of video.

We encouraged you to participate and are overwhelmed by the numerous submissions of your images. You were able to realize and capture this theme in different scenes - no two pictures are the same. We received over 5,500 photos from more than 2,100 participants, and we would like to thank you for your commitment. We have never had so many entries! With such a large selection, it was particularly difficult for us to make a decision. Together as a team, we filtered out the best shots to share with you.

1. Place Bernd Walz

The winning photo - "Schaukelfreuden"

The winning photo was taken by Bernd Walz. He wrote to us afterwards that he is a retired biologist and that photography for scientific documentation has accompanied him throughout his entire professional life. Since 2006, he has also been using the creative potential of photography. His photographic focus is on landscape photography and experimental abstract microphotography. In his photographic projects, he explores the artistic possibilities of sometimes extremely minimalist image design. Bernd Walz is a founding member of the non-commercial association "Fotogalerie Potsdam e.V.", which has been promoting artistically ambitious photography since 2012 and currently organizes five photo exhibitions a year.

He reports that the photo was taken on the beach in Sankt Peter-Ording. "The plan was to take a long exposure of the empty swing in the late light. I had set up a tripod, adjusted the distance and screwed on an ND 1000 gray filter when two teenagers occupied the swing and started swinging. I simply pressed the shutter release. After this one (!) shot, the two jumped off the swing and ran away. What incredible luck that the exposure 'worked out'. "

You can find more photos and works on Facebook and Instagram.

2. Place Nguyen Manh Ngoc

2nd place - The conductor in traffic

The picture of second place winner Nguyen Manh Ngoc is called "the conductor in the traffic" and it was taken with the Canon 7D + 15-85 mm in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) in Vietnam. He gives us an insight into how it was taken: "It was rush hour in the late afternoon at an intersection. There were a few policemen there in the very heavy traffic to regulate the traffic and bring order. I stood on a pedestrian bridge for several hours - with my camera on the tripod. It was a little difficult to choose the right exposure time in this situation because the traffic was moving slowly in places. But in the end I had a picture with the right exposure time, just as I had imagined it in my head. I particularly like the policeman, who looks like a conductor at a concert. That was my best picture of the day!"

3. Place Joachim Osterwisch

3rd place - The swimmer

We also asked Joachim Osterwisch about himself and this picture:
"I'm 57 years old, married, have two sons and work as an IT consultant for Germany's largest software manufacturer. I've been taking photographs for 43 years and have been doing so even more intensively since going digital. Portrait, boudoir and nude photography have been my focus and passion for 7 years. However, I also occasionally shoot other subjects. During the first corona wave, when studio shoots were not possible, I also photographed 360-degree panoramas, for example. I often like to do experimental things with light. Flash, continuous light as a tabletop or even outdoors.
The idea for this picture came up when I replaced my old battery-powered studio flashes with 2 Rollei Freeze 6 battery-powered flashes in 2018. The Rollei flashes have a freeze mode with a short burn-off time. I wanted to try this out and was looking for a suitable motif. I found it when I happened to see swimmers jumping from the starting block into the water on TV. The splashing water was ideal for freezing. A colleague at work put me in touch with a swimming group at the Textorbad in Frankfurt am Main. I went to the pool on an April evening in 2018. The idea was to capture the swimmers doing their laps from the head end of the pool opposite the star blocks with a 70-200mm telephoto lens. I had my son with me as an assistant. We were able to recruit another swimmer as a second assistant. The Rollei Freeze was mounted on a light stand. The assistants carried them upside down (flash pointing downwards), as close as possible to the waterline at the height of the respective swimmer. The assistants were therefore virtually walking along the edge of the pool. I triggered the flashes from the head end with the radio trigger. Of course, dolphin was the ideal swimming style so that the water splashed up high."

You can find more pictures on Facebook and Instagram.

4. Place Justus Gatzke

4. Fourth place - Lake Garda fun

Justus can be happy about the fourth place. The 21-year-old wrote to us after being notified of his win: "The picture was taken one evening on Lake Garda. The story behind the picture is relatively boring and, like so many good photos, was simply the result of a desire, a mood and a fun idea. We just wanted to go swimming but decided to take the camera with us (something exciting can always happen). At some point, we spontaneously came up with the idea of taking photos while jumping and capturing the coolest possible poses. We took photos for a very long time because we thought we could always do better. Personally, I'm more than happy with this picture."

You can find more pictures on Instagram.

5. Place Wilhelm Bootsveld

5th place - Loopings in the sky

The winner of the fifth place picture, 5th place Wilhelm Bootsveld, writes the following about the picture: "The photo was taken during an air show in Lemoore, California, which I was able to attend with my wife and daughter in September 2019. It shows Kent Pietsch in his Interstate Cadet, a two-seater, single-engine monoplane manufactured in California between 1941 and 1942. Kent fascinated with his 'dead-stick routine' (turning off the engine) after he had raised the plane to an altitude of around 2000m. Like a long pirouette, he then glided slowly back to the ground, using the momentum for new upward movements, similar to a dragonfly. As I said, the engine was switched off until it landed. I used my Sony AIII with a 200mm telephoto lens to take the picture."

Conclusion of the Movement 2020 photo competition

With the pictures of the five winners, we have only shown a small selection of unique and interesting ways of capturing movement photographically. Many images only just failed to make it into the top five, as there was too much to choose from.

We would like to thank all participants and look forward to receiving interesting entries for future competitions. The next opportunities will soon be waiting at our Online Fototage from October 30 to November 9 . Until then, we hope you continue to enjoy photography and all the moments that can be associated with it and captured!

Photo competition "Movement" - All pictures

The prizes:

1st place: Sony Alpha 6100 + SEL 16-50mm PZ OSS
The successor to the top-seller with ultra-fast autofocus.
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2nd place: Tamron ?600 voucher
600? voucher for the outstanding Tamron lenses
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3rd place: Steiner Sky Hawk 4.0 10x42
Impressive binoculars with high-contrast optics.
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4th place: FeiyuTech Pocket
Small and lightweight camera with gimbal for blur-free shots.
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5th place: Kalahari Photo Backpack 3in1 XAKA S-28
Rugged backpack for every photo adventure.
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