Septembert Fun Comp

This months Fun comp is open colour and your judge is Lee Johnson.


Monthly Web Site Fun Photo Competition.
Summary:

This competition is for all members’ beginners & advanced workers and all images will be judged together.

This is an opportunity to compete with images you may not think are “winners” but you like and would like to share with the club. (So dig out your old favourites).

Images previously used for competition will not be eligible.

It is important that you do not submit any image you wish to use for competition, as entering this fun competition will make the image ineligible for any future club competitions etc.

No marks will be awarded to the winners and will not count to the photographer of the year award.

The winning worker from the previous month’s competition will then judge the next month’s competition and will also set the theme, from:-

Open colour, black and white (mono), portrait, natural history, creative or landscape.

I've spent loads of time looking at the images, gone away, come back repetidly! Anyway, here's what I thought!

This was a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be! There was very little between the images to separate them and in the end it came down to little niggles that eventually put them in to their places. Well done to everyone who entered, you made this really hard!


The judge will pick 1st 2nd 3rd + commends and comments by the judge, will then be posted on the web site against the winning image. the Judge will not have access to the identity of the worker till they have made their decision.

Please submit only one image per month.
Image size should be 1024. (if you are unable to resize send it any way and it will be resized for you)
Send all images to our E-mail address:- blackburnanddistrictcc@yahoo.co.uk
Images should have attached the workers name and title of image

Boat for Hire

Andy Phillips 1st Place - No title A nice moody landscape!!! As photographers, we love them. I really like the composition on this. The rocks and stones in the foreground lead the eye to the cliff on the right hand side which points the way to the main subject the sunlit mountain. The letterbox format also suits this image and keeps the subject nice and compact. I think the use of light and composition make this image stand out. Therefore, I award this image 1st Place. Well done.

Roy Pickering Commended – Nightmare On Elm Street Quite a fitting title seeming how a remake of the original film was released just a couple of months ago! I was hoping that something like this would be entered! I was really looking for something different. I love the technique that was used on this. I assume it is colour reversal with some tweaking. Unfortunately, the composition didn’t just work for me otherwise it would have been placed. However, I wanted to commend it for trying something different!

Open wider

Jason Barker Commended – China Town At Night Initially, I really loved this image and it was on the virge of being placed. It is well shot and the detail is nice and sharp. The colour is also good. Two things let it down for me and that was the elements on the left hand side of the image distracted me from the main subject, perhaps a tighter crop would have worked better. Secondly the title; if I had opened this image off a disk, I would have thought that I had the wrong image. I am the worlds worst at titling images and would have probably done the same. But as Bob Dennis said a few weeks ago, the title can be as important as the image. To me the content of the image is the most important thing and I loved this apart the distractions. It only narrowly missed being placed. Well done!

Ian Sudall 3rd Place – Knaresborough I like this shot. It’s a pleasant town landscape that wouldn’t look out of place in a tourist guide or council publication. The colours in the foreground and just before the mid area of the image lead your eye nicely to the canal which then leads you to the bridge and round the corner. The reflections in the water are fantastic. The image is nice and sharp and the detail is great. I like the idea of using a blue graduation filter to bring some detail back in to the sky. However, I thought that it was a little overdone and found it a little distracting. Perhaps try dropping the opacity a little.

Rat Pack

Soughton Hall

Last light

Malc Taylor 2nd Place – Stained Glass A lovely record shot of a stained glass window. The light is nice and even across the whole scene, the image is nice and sharp and the colour is fantastic. I think if the windows had been straightened up in photoshop and the little bit of detail between them had been painted out, this image would have won, this month.