Photo Club Competition Night
While I’ve slowed my pace of posting, I still have some favorite images that haven’t made it into competition yet. Tonight my small club had another competition for the categories Monochrome Pictorial, Color Pictorial, Nature and Creative. As usual, some great pieces were presented. The comments from the judge overall were good. I don’t necessarily agree with all of them of course. 
I included some of the takeaways below each image.
Cherries - Digital Color Pictorial
Judge Comment: Could be cropped tighter to lose a bit of the left side to place more emphasis on what is in focus. Either that or stop it down just a bit. The situation may not have made this possible if it was low light.
My thoughts: I agree with the cropping bit, I think there is probably too much on the left. This was taken in extremely bright, direct light. I did lots of work to tone down the harshness. The fact that it was perceived to be low light, I consider a victory.
Caught! - Monochrome Pictorial - 2nd Place
Judge comment: Love the expression on the man’s face. It makes the image. Also the curve of the benches is nice. However, I would have loved to see this cropped tighter to put more focus on the facial expression.
My thoughts: I agree with everything except the crop. The empty bench row adds just as much as the facial expression. Plus, I like the birds.
Honeybee Swarm (Apis mellifera) - Nature - 1st Place
Judge comment: Eek, I hope you were careful taking this. The bees are crisp, the background tells enough of a story but isn’t important. This is a good nature story. The title could have included the details about the swarm protecting the queen.
My thoughts: I agree.
Recursion Error - Creative - 3rd Place
Judge comments: Not many comments other than general observation and appreciation of the work that went into this.
My thoughts: This has changed quite a bit since I originally made it. I have tried to make it look more like it was done with a cheap toy camera.
Three Twos and an Entry
This evening’s Light & Shadow Camera Club competition went pretty good. The categories this evening for digital were Monochrome, Color Pictorial, Nature and Creative. All of my entries except monochrome held a second place. No real critical commentary on the images this time around from the judge. Overall all of the submissions were really strong and I’m more than pleased to have been awarded seconds.
Salsify Seeds - Digital Monochrome
A View to Something More Beautiful - Color Pictorial - Second Place
Thistle and Honeybee (Apis mellifera, Silybum marianum, Schizaphis graminum) - Nature - Second Place
Supported Asymmetry - Creative - Second Place
Another Good Round
Last night’s photo club was good. I entered four images, one in each digital category (I have not yet submitted prints) and won first in each. These, along with my last entries will be judged together along with the top photos from clubs in the area at the next bimonthly 6C competition. I am very curious how they fare at that event. This is all very exciting.
 Good Morning San Francisco - Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA - Travel (Digital)  Wish Maker - Monochrome (Digital) |
 The Terror of Happy Hollow - San Jose, CA - Photojournalism (Digital)  Mystical Morning - Color Pictorial (Digital) |
Some Photo Club Success
Last night I had some successes in the Light & Shadow Camera Club in Pictorial, Travel and Photojournalism. A couple first places and thirds. I’m excited since I still feel pretty new to photography and I have only had a DSLR since September of ’09. Yes, I have had other point-and-shoot cameras, but I never took them too seriously. The other photographers in the club are very experienced and constantly put out amazing photographs and I learn quite a bit from their work, techniques and criticisms. Placing in competition could be a bad thing however, it will just encourage me which will likely lead to wanting more lenses, filters, flashes, etc etc.
Here are the images I submitted that did well.
 Sunset at the Dumbarton Bridge - Travel |
 Return Flight to Kansas - Color Pictorial |
 Power Hit - U6 Girls Softball San Jose - Photojournalism |
 Four Generations of San Jose - Travel |
- Winter Beckons – Color Pictorial
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