GregSteer
15th of January 2010 (Fri), 13:20
EDIT: Just realised after posting that I maybe should have put this in the General Photography stub - sorry :)
Hey everyone.
Before leaving on our Czech Republic (just got back after a month there, bleeding cold!) tour I submitted an image to the third round of the Worlds Apart competition in Digital SLR Photography magazine (UK) after my previous course module at the BFP (UK freelance course) had suggested looking at competitions.
The topic was Environment Portraits which caused me to recall a picture I had shot of my good friend Rob whilst he was kayaking down the Guil river in the French alps, my original blogpost with all the photos can be seen by clicking here. (http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/?p=160)
To cut a long story short I received an email from the editor of DSLR just before we left requesting a hi-res version of the image as it had made it through to the “semi-final” round and they may need to print it in the magazine. I fired a copy off to him thinking “Hey, that’s great, I got past the initially culling stage” and then didn’t think much more about it… until we returned yesterday and I opened the February 2010 (still weird to think it’s 2010!) issue of DSLR and had a browse.
Oh, that’s a nice winning image of round three, thinking it was a shame that I hadn’t heared anything back from the editor on my image. But lo, hiding snugly at the bottom of the next page admist the other Best of the Rest entries was my picture of Rob with my name overlaying it. That brought as smile to the face http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif It’s a great confidence booster to see your image in print, makes me want to go and process some more!
I've been nursing a small nugget of self doubt about my photography over the past month or three and this has re-invigorated me to made me want to bite my teeth deeply in to it again. Just what I needed!
Any how, here’s the image itself. Rob mapping out in his head which route to take down one of the rapids sections of the Guil river, the image doesn’t really do the scale of the river torrent justice but if you take a look at the other images in the Alps-Kayak gallery (http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/?p=160) you’ll get a feel for it.
http://www.darklight.org.uk/images/potn/people/030_TravellingFranceAlpsKayaks_20090718_IMG_2057_W eb1024.jpg
Hey everyone.
Before leaving on our Czech Republic (just got back after a month there, bleeding cold!) tour I submitted an image to the third round of the Worlds Apart competition in Digital SLR Photography magazine (UK) after my previous course module at the BFP (UK freelance course) had suggested looking at competitions.
The topic was Environment Portraits which caused me to recall a picture I had shot of my good friend Rob whilst he was kayaking down the Guil river in the French alps, my original blogpost with all the photos can be seen by clicking here. (http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/?p=160)
To cut a long story short I received an email from the editor of DSLR just before we left requesting a hi-res version of the image as it had made it through to the “semi-final” round and they may need to print it in the magazine. I fired a copy off to him thinking “Hey, that’s great, I got past the initially culling stage” and then didn’t think much more about it… until we returned yesterday and I opened the February 2010 (still weird to think it’s 2010!) issue of DSLR and had a browse.
Oh, that’s a nice winning image of round three, thinking it was a shame that I hadn’t heared anything back from the editor on my image. But lo, hiding snugly at the bottom of the next page admist the other Best of the Rest entries was my picture of Rob with my name overlaying it. That brought as smile to the face http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif It’s a great confidence booster to see your image in print, makes me want to go and process some more!
I've been nursing a small nugget of self doubt about my photography over the past month or three and this has re-invigorated me to made me want to bite my teeth deeply in to it again. Just what I needed!
Any how, here’s the image itself. Rob mapping out in his head which route to take down one of the rapids sections of the Guil river, the image doesn’t really do the scale of the river torrent justice but if you take a look at the other images in the Alps-Kayak gallery (http://www.gregsteer.co.uk/gregsblog/?p=160) you’ll get a feel for it.
http://www.darklight.org.uk/images/potn/people/030_TravellingFranceAlpsKayaks_20090718_IMG_2057_W eb1024.jpg