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[Closed] Photo Theme Challenge, Week #100: Low Key [Deadline: Saturday, May 10]

 
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 Jason Polak
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Topic starter May 3, 2025 5:41 pm  

Thanks everyone for submitting their photos last week. This week's theme is "low key", or photos low contrast and more muted tones.


   
 Mauro70
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May 3, 2025 11:54 pm  

Nikon D800, Nikon 105 Macro f/2.8 @105 mm, ISO 100, f/36, 1/250. 

Graptopetalum paraguayensis after the rain, but flash did not fire properly.

2020 06 08 20 09 42 15 D800  DSC6252

 

 


   
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May 4, 2025 9:42 am  
RB7 0716

School boy in Jinja/Uganda. It's fascinating, how happy they are, with so few things they own.

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 110 mm, f/7.1, 1/250 sec, ISO 100, Exp.Comp. -1


   
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 rjbfoto
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May 4, 2025 9:59 am  
RB7 2507

You might think, that this wife on a market near Lake Mburo/Uganda was crying. But in fact she was laughing :-)

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 277 mm, f/6.3, 1/400 sec, ISO 160, Exp.Comp -1


   
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 PRG Lagarde
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May 4, 2025 11:35 am  
Low Light Low Sound

Taforalt live in Blois 2017

https://fr-fr.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1592591054144508&set=ecnf.100025354425074

EOS M6 with EF 50 1.8 STM, @ISO 100, 1/100s, F/2.2, -4/3 exposure


   
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 AndrewGusew
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May 5, 2025 3:11 am  

Nikon z6 + z24-70

ISO 2200

DSZ 6020 00001

   
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 Allan369
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May 5, 2025 12:50 pm  
EmptyName 12

        Nikon, ISO 100, 1/50s,f/5.6, 35mm


   
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 Robert
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May 5, 2025 6:57 pm  

Oxtongue Lake Canada

DSC 2774 Oxtongue Lake

Nikon D7200  @ 102 mm  ISO 640   20 seconds   f/2.8


   
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 Frederic Dantzer
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May 7, 2025 11:25 pm  

Cauterets, French Pyrenees

Nikon Z6_2, Nikkor 24-200mm f4-6.3 VR, ISO 100, 200 mm, f11, 1/400 s

 DSC0144

   
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 florin
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May 8, 2025 5:15 am  

Some fun, took an photo (maybe is alredy low key, I don't know), add an embossed layer and get a lower key image ... all in paint.net

P1120725 result
P1120725 original
P1120725 layer embossed

   
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 Danny
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May 8, 2025 12:04 pm  

Practicing with low light : Model my granddaughter.
Nikon DF+Voigtländer nokton 58mm f1.4 1/50sec f2.2 iso 400 exp. -0.3

naamloos 1 7

   
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 Danny
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May 8, 2025 12:41 pm  

Weeping child from Cuba.
Nikon D7100 at 90mm  
1/400sec f 4.5 iso 100

DSC 9014 bewerkt 2

   
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 Marc8
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May 8, 2025 7:51 pm  
FoggyAspenTreesDt

Aspen trees in a fog.  Canon T6i 50mm, 1/160sec F/4, iso 400


   
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 Mark Fulton
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May 9, 2025 7:56 am  
Itasca Twilight
This post was modified 2 months ago by Mark Fulton

   
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 vidmarko
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May 9, 2025 2:10 pm  
kranj

Nikon D500 + DX Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G @35mm, ISO 100, 1/640, f/5.6 August 2022


   
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