SMWYG Year 3: The Battle begins!

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #9024823
Do you have an agreement in writing with the Boss?

No I don't but I feel that morally she owns the photos.

kumatron wrote in post #9024826
Did you give up on this idea??!!??!!

Not at all. I'm like a dog with a bone, I keep my eyes open for the right barn, I just don't get out much. There needs to be an amendment adding the bright green lizard though.

kumatron wrote in post #9024826
Did you give up on this idea??!!??!!
https://photography-on-the.net …ighlight=barn#p​ost7728384

There is still hope!!!

I remember that one!!!

Throw in an Indian Wedding and Vacuum cleaners in the Blue Barn, and you're all set for the greatest photo ever!

Hey, I know!

I'm going to do a photo of a crayon and a mulit-coloured lizard!

Don't anybody copy me...

As someone that can't take a picture of a bird flying to save my life, I gotta say I LOVED this picture last week! I kept going back and looking at it because I was so impressed at your mad skillz!

krepta wrote in post #8986429
Fou de Bassan en vol
(Northern Gannet in flight)

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/krepta/37969612​49/

Permagrin wrote in post #9024812
Speaking of styles, it's really hard to judge cross-category photos...while a portrait may be stellar, it may not hold a candle to an action shot or something that is hard to get...but had there been categories, it probably would have taken it's category...AND YET, an action photo may not hold a candle to a moving portrait. It's really really hard to judge like this. (but adding categories would be too complicated)

Pete mentioned something in another thread regarding Emotion Trumping Technical and I was going to ask something similar over here.

I take "Emotion" to be simply the viewers reaction to an image. Happy, Sad, Angry, Holy Moo, whatever...

Is it "fair" that a "P&S Grab Shot" of something highly emotionally charged (car wreck, soldier's homecoming, baby's first steps) could beat out something like a world-class studio portrait (eg, a piece by Alejandro "The Aztech") that by comparison may be much less "heart in your throat" but required far more prep and execution time?

Just food for thought...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #9024878
baby's first steps) could beat out something like a world-class studio portrait (eg, a piece by Alejandro "The Aztech")

I have photos of my grand daughter's first steps and there's no way I'd put them up against something of Alejandro's... Well, maybe I would if the judges were her grand mothers.

Would somebody please save my butt in AKA - The Celebrity Game?

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #9024878
Pete mentioned something in another thread regarding Emotion Trumping Technical and I was going to ask something similar over here.

I take "Emotion" to be simply the viewers reaction to an image. Happy, Sad, Angry, Holy Moo, whatever...

Is it "fair" that a "P&S Grab Shot" of something highly emotionally charged (car wreck, soldier's homecoming, baby's first steps) could beat out something like a world-class studio portrait (eg, a piece by Alejandro "The Aztech") that by comparison may be much less "heart in your throat" but required far more prep and execution time?

Just food for thought...

I think it would depend on what each judge is looking for in photography in general. That's why I posted what's important to me personally.

If I'm not moved by something, if I don't look at it twice, then to me...it's not a very good photo. It may be technically perfect too.

Let's consider two photos by the same artist for a moment:

1

2

Now the lighting is technically right in #1. and it's used with great passion in #2

They are both processed but #1 is made to look natural and #2 is processed to look processed.

#1 is composed properly.
#2 is composed dynamically.

Everyone agrees that #1 is some of her worst work ever. But the technical details are there.


Now, I know you were talking about a badly done photo. So lets look at this one:

#3

How many of you would rate a blown out highlight photo such as this, composed in halves, such as this, as an excellent photo? And yet it is because the subject totally trumped the technical...



and yet sometimes even an emotional subject can be lost in a bad photography job (I didn't want to use anyone else's work for a bad photo)
#4

Geno DM wrote in post #9024730
I don't even know what my favourite subject is! What subject am I known for?

Barns on fire that you are suspiciously close by to all the time?

maxblack wrote in post #9025143
Barns on fire that you are suspiciously close by to all the time?

And happen to be there at the right time....

Harm wrote in post #9025336
And happen to be there at the right time....

And smelling of kerosene? That wasn't me, honest.

BTW, you needed to post a photo starting with an "N".

Geno DM wrote in post #9025414
BTW, you needed to post a photo starting with an "N".

>???<

Harm wrote in post #9025510
>???<

The Celebrity Game...

kumatron wrote in post #9024874
As someone that can't take a picture of a bird flying to save my life, I gotta say I LOVED this picture last week! I kept going back and looking at it because I was so impressed at your mad skillz!

Thank you, I appreciate it! To hear this from last year's SMWYG winner gives me a little more confidence in my abilities, that's for sure.

Although, to be humble, I must say there was much luck involved. This place was an island/preservation area that harbors the largest colony of Northern Gannets in the world. Visitors are kept off of the birds' grounds, but they were still close by, and with so many of them flying around, it's only a matter of patience and persistance before a photographer is able to capture a more than decent BIF shot. I was there for about an hour, observing the birds' behavior to anticipate take-off's, landings, and fly-by's, and tracking them with AI Servo mode. My keeper rate was not too bad, although most shots would need cropping since 55mm is not very long. On the one I entered here, I was lucky that one was approaching really close by, so I tracked it, and snapped a short burst of 3 or 4 shots. The funny thing is, this happened very early on, and even though I got better at tracking the birds thereafter, none flew by as close as this one did, so this really was my best shot of the day.

Geno DM wrote in post #9024805
You know, I just might be able to pull that off! Gail, think Bose Farm.

Geno, I am going to torch the chicken coop this weekend.....wanna come over.we can throw something cool in it.maybe a can or two of aerosol?:p