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Thinking of putting in a panel for next LIPF – your thoughts
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Hello all,
I’ve only posted a few times here but have already found people here to be most helpful and friendly. I look forward to participating more and more on the forum.
I am thinking about putting in a panel for the next LIPF and was looking for some feedback/opinions/critique.
Do you see any that you would definitely leave out for example?
Here is my first draft. The link to a larger size is below the photo. All input is greatly appreciated.
1024×533 version:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/achtung-barry/4192562320/sizes/l/
4800×2500 version:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/achtung-barry/4192562320/sizes/o/
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Barry…
Just my opinion and I don’t know how the judges view these things – but the HDR and what looks like texture overlays are possibly more dominating than the actual photos that sit beneath them.
If I were a judge I’d be wondering could you, as a photographer, take a good photo that didn’t require heaps of post processing.
Good luck with it.
nfl-fan wrote:
Barry…
Just my opinion and I don’t know how the judges view these things – but the HDR and what looks like texture overlays are possibly more dominating than the actual photos that sit beneath them.
If I were a judge I’d be wondering could you, as a photographer, take a good photo that didn’t require heaps of post processing.
Good luck with it.
I know what you mean. My “style” if you can call it that is certainly not to everybody’s tastes. When I show a photo, I usually get either “Ilove it” or “I hate it” reactions. In a way I kind of like that for some reason.
I do wonder though would the judges go for it. A guy in a my club put in a panel of hdr/texture stuff already and got the LIPF about a year ago so you never know.
Thanks for your input.
My recent experience of judges and competition/distinction is that anything goes. In a recent competition one image got an award and 90% of the image wasn’t a photograph but a computer generated image. The panel at this scale looks striking and I’d imagine it’d do quite well as cohesion is a key element…or so achievers have told me.
Alan.
irishwonkafan wrote:
In a recent competition one image got an award and 90% of the image wasn’t a photograph but a computer generated image.
Well there you go-
I’d be wary of entering a photography competition where the judges don’t know what a photograph is…I’d be wary of entering a photography competition where the judges don’t know what a photograph is…
Have to say I was quite shocked myself…either that it was a real image and we all live in a cartoon world.
The judges…FIPFs, I believe.irishwonkafan wrote:
My recent experience of judges and competition/distinction is that anything goes. In a recent competition one image got an award and 90% of the image wasn’t a photograph but a computer generated image. The panel at this scale looks striking and I’d imagine it’d do quite well as cohesion is a key element…or so achievers have told me.
Alan.
Wow, my images would seem “normal” compared to that.
What I see is a panel of strong images with a fair bit of photographers individual style coming through. imho you would walk the LIPF.
Ross (LRPS) 8)
Have to say though that I really like the lightning one… wow… talk about being in the right place at the right time.
Bit of a halo around the steeple that might require some attention though.
Good luck Barry!
nfl-fan wrote:
Have to say though that I really like the lightning one… wow… talk about being in the right place at the right time.
Bit of a halo around the steeple that might require some attention though.
Good luck Barry!
I will own up here and say that the photo is a composite of 2 shots taken at the same location a few minutes apart and the lightening was not exactly in the same location. As for the halo, I think may need to be more careful with the selections but should be able to fix that one. Thanks.
I think these are extrordinary, very art like.
I did a course before I went for my ‘Licentiate’ last year and the instructor of the course, who holds a FIPF along with other qualifications said that anything goes. In fact his exact words when asked about it were “it’s all photographic art”The panel looks great to me and very cohesive. I think you should do very well.
Best of luck.Pat
I’m not qualified to have an opinion, since I don’t have any letters to show-
nor do I want them, really-They certainly do form a cohesive group.
It seems that, with the possible exception of the picture I commented on recently,
they all share the same massive over processing.
The colour palette seems similar across them all,
whether they’re landscapes, townscapes, or interiors.I really don’t like this processing, it overpowers the images,
and any merit the original image might have had is lost below all the applied effects.
I find myself wondering if the pictures are a vehicle for the processing,
and if there’s anything underneath it.
I suppose I’m one of the people you mentioned who doesn’t like it at all-
I could be more descriptive, but I have to bite my lip-I think there’s a chance that you might look back on these sometime in the future
and have a go at a more subtle style of processing- maybe.
Even if you were to do it now, it might still produce a cohesive panel,
but one in which the photography is a more important element.ok, so this form of processing is very popular, and if that’s what it takes to get a distinction, then go for it-
As I mentioned earlier, my judgement counts for nothing in these matters- thankfully-Sorry I don’t know anything about panels – a beautiful selection of work.
Well done and best of luck with your Panel.achtungbarry wrote:
jb7 wrote:
but I have to bite my lip-
Hee hee, many others don’t!
OK, so who else has bitten JBs lip??? :shock:
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