Of all of the prizes from the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, I’ve received the most positive feedback on the ColorRight prizes. If you’re the type of photographer that shoots in raw and fixes white balance in post production, picking up a ColorRight of your own may be a good idea. With light changing all the time, it’s hard to get the right color balance in camera, and with evolution of digital photography, we can tweak the temperature of our photographs more than even before.

But why spend all that time playing around in post processing when you can get it right “in-camera”? ColorRight is a lens filter-like tool that can help you do just that. Basically, you place it over the end of your dSLR and take a sample photo. This gives your camera an accurate reading of the temperature of the light. Once your camera knows what the lighting conditions are, you’ll have an accurate white balance for the rest of your photographs (or at least until the lighting changes, when all you have to do is switch to manual focus, change your camera settings to “custom white balance,” and take another sample photo).

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Just a quick post to let you know you can now check out the 2008 Photograph of the Year winning photographs all in one place: www.photographycorner.com/photograph-of-the-year. Feel free to bookmark/stumble/email/twitter this page to all your friends… it’s quite a collection of amazing photographs! Read more »

Mpix.com is a company that is already used by a fair number of people around the Corner. Thankfully, they not only sponsored the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, but also are gaving away $1,200 in gift certificates to the winners - that’s a lot of prints (and books and other press items)!

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The Winner of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is masoud with his photograph Shy and Curious!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 1st Runner-Up (2nd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is MelB with her photograph The Tree!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 2nd Runner-Up (3rd Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is Gems with her photograph Frozen Winter Casualty!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 3rd Runner-Up (4th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is squirl033 with his photograph Ethereal!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 4th Runner-Up (5th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is Tyger with his photograph Heron In Flight!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 5th Runner-Up (6th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is fa1sal with his photograph Allure!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 6th Runner-Up (7th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is Fursid with his photograph Encounter!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 7th Runner-Up (tied for 8th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is DDAY with his photograph Remembrance!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round, which featured 10 groups of 13 photos each, which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 7th Runner-Up (tied for 8th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is richard peters with his photograph Sunrise Deer Rut!!! Read more »

After a month-long entry period, followed by a preliminary voting round (that featured 10 groups of 13 photos each) which was followed by a 1-week FINAL VOTING ROUND, it’s time to announce the winners of the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest.

The 9th Runner-Up (10th Place) in the PhotographyCorner.com 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest is lucipaz with her photograph My Crystal Ball!!! Read more »

In addition to offering prizes to each of the 10 finalists of the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, Think Tank Photo is also offering a free camera bag to any member of the Corner that makes a purchase of over $50 from Think Tank Photo. Spend at least $50, get a FREE camera bag. Use coupon code WS-171 and you're all set. Here's a closer look at Think Tank Photo, and the prizes they're offering for the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest.

One of the single, most valuable prizes available to be won in the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest is the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Printer courtesy of Epson Canada. Here’s a closer look at Epson Canada, as well as the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 printer.

Over the next couple of days, during the voting of the Final Round of the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, we’re going to have a chance to meet some of the sponsors that have made this amazing contest successful. We’re starting with GetData, our lead sponsor who not only donated prizes to the top 10 finalists, but also donated a free copy of ExplorerView to each person that entered the contest. Check out what they had to say below, and make sure to check out their site at www.getdata.com.

After a month and a half, it’s come down to the final week: It’s time to vote for the 2008 Photograph of the Year. It’s the final round. We narrowed the entries down from hundreds, to 130, and now down to 20. And it’s up to you. Your vote is what decides who’s going to win. Who’s going to take home the grand prize worth almost $4,000? Your vote could be the deciding vote. Read more »

Oops! I thought I had opened up the voting results of the 2008 Photograph of the Year yesterday, but most of you couldn’t see the results. I’ve tinkered with it, and now you should all be able to see the final voting results of Round 1. The links to the winners are below. Just go to the voting threads to see the final voting results. Read more »

After a week of voting, we’ve managed to whittle down 130 amazing photographs to a mere 20. Two photographs from each voting round will be moving on to the final voting round of the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, which will begin on Friday, January 23rd, 2009. You can check out the number of votes that each photograph received, as well as which 2 photographs from each group will be up for the 2008 Photograph of the Year, in the voting threads listed below. Read more »

Entries were due in by January 7th, and a week later (aka late last night), voting began for the 2008 Photograph of the Year Contest. As we’ve done in the past, due to the number of entries, voting is split up into 2 voting rounds. This year, however, instead of only the top photograph from each group in the first round moving on to the final round, the top TWO photographs from each group move on. You can check out this thread that is stickied at the top of the Photograph of the Year Forum to see all the voting guidelines. Read more »