Three Images Earn A Perfect Score in Our October Competition!

Dec 03, 2019 Comments Off on Three Images Earn A Perfect Score in Our October Competition! by

The Stamford Photography Club’s October Competition saw three images receiving a perfect score of 27 from our three judges for the this event. The three images are highlighted below, along with a short description of the photograph by the maker:

Looking Out From Within by Sally Harris – Black & White Print Class Salon Open Subject

The Irish Travelers are an ethnic minority group named for their nomadic lifestyle. I had the opportunity to photograph several families in Ireland with a photographer Joseph-Philippe Bevillard who has been photographing Traveler families for the past 7 years and provided the incredible access into their lives. While many of my photographs of the Traveler children show them laughing and playing or posing, this image of Diane reveals a child in a solemn, pensive moment waiting in a car with her siblings which is more illustrative of their incredibly difficult lives. ~Sally

Thomas by Carlotta Grenier – Digital Image Class Salon Open Subject

This Image of Thomas was created this summer in Poland. The Horse was at Liberty and had just finished a huge jumping around in the outdoors arena And when he come down to the ground I was ready to capture this image eating a good amount of dust.
Beautiful and very spirited horse. His breed is Andalusian and his discipline is dressage. ~Carlotta

Scooters, Scooters, Scooters by Aleksander Rotner – Digital Image Assigned Subject (Wide Angle Everything)

We were in Milan during our travels in Italy this summer and my wife and a friend,
went shopping. I was schlepping along.
There were several stores on that street and I was told not to go anyplace, just to stay, where they can see me when they finish. Well, for a photographer, it is not a bore but a blessing.

I immediately noticed that all along the curbside there were parked scooters and motorcycles. Not one car was among them. For our American city dweller, it was an unusual sight and I thought that it may make an interesting panorama. So I took about 20 photographs moving from left to right, trying to keep the same distance and the same vertical position, which was not easy without a tripod. But I thought: “I’ll fix it in the post”.

Nothing could have been more misleading. It was not a landscape with horizontal lines connecting easily one with the other. It was a three-dimensional logistic nightmare.
There were balconies protruding, there were store-fronts contracting, there were shadows changing with the sun’s visibility… The distance, even though I tried to be precise while shooting, was off, so were the vertical angles.

As I moved, the protruding balconies were seen from different angles, creating yet another difficulty in coordinating. When all this matching was done, the resulting panorama was visually correct, but not very interesting. The mechanical precision needed a little visual “poetry”. So, I added various textures and brush strokes to simulate pastel painting.
~Aleksander

Congratulations Sally, Carlotta and Aleksander!  Your images were added to the Perfect Score Gallery.

Click on the image to the left to see each image in full.

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