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A good choice or poor choice for winning photo?


9 years 4 months ago #415157 by Overread
This photo look first place:  www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-29770415  

I can appreciate if this was intentional and abstract art of some sort.  But not the case from what I read.  Jury is out to lunch.  Where do you stand?  
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9 years 4 months ago #415171 by garyrhook
Oh, whatever.

The title of an image apparently has a huge role to play in the perception by its judges, when in competition. Granted there are some composiitional elements to this that are interesting, and some that are not. But it's not "special" in my book. I don't get blur.
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9 years 4 months ago #415185 by KCook
Quite good as abstract, terrible as wildlife.

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9 years 4 months ago #415188 by effron
Yeah, blur is fine in my dentist's office, but I don't see that as a wildlife technique. However, if the judges want to award it, great! .......and that's where I stand. 
Why so serious?
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9 years 4 months ago #415201 by One Wish
+1 with what Kelly said.  If this was meant to be an abstract, then this is a great photo.  Other, as a wildlife shot, it doesn't work.
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9 years 4 months ago #415287 by Joves
Well apparently the judges were in a Picasso mood when they were judging. Those antelope do not look as if they were stampeding to me. Now if I was going to do some form of a blur shot of wildlife running, I would track the animals while doing a log exposure, and hope they remained fairly level so only their legs were blurred. 
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9 years 4 months ago #415319 by Mason Katz
It's cool from a fine art stand point, not sure if I would have picked that one.  
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9 years 4 months ago - 9 years 4 months ago #415347 by Stealthy Ninja
The image, called Living Rock Art by Neil Aldridge, aims to "capture the energy and movement of the blesboks in a still frame".

Mr Aldridge of Kenn, North Somerset, said when he saw the image on the back of his camera he "knew it was special".





Sure is "special" "art".
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9 years 4 months ago - 9 years 4 months ago #415350 by Hassner
Living in Africa and after the explosion of images due to digital, wildlife images became ten-a-penny. Every second guy in South Africa with too much money who loves the outdoors, has a 7D (and surely upgraded by now) and at least a 600 f4 lens.

People are becoming bored with the norm of wildlife images. I am sure the judges saw this as something 'fresh'.

To call it Stampede is far fetched. In a stampede you need hundreds of buck to give the word justice, not two running past for whatever reason.

I enjoyed the shot. Hit and miss to get the right shutter speed to get the effect.

Might even be a happy accident.
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9 years 4 months ago #415423 by Tim Dordeck
I rather like the winning photo
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9 years 4 months ago #415508 by Ted Helm
I'm going to have to agree with Tim on this one.  I like the photo more than the other ones that are shown there.  I guess for this photographer, luck of a bad shot worked out in his favor.  
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9 years 4 months ago #416037 by Steven.Powell
+1
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9 years 4 months ago #416047 by icepics
I've seen this before and I don't think the article gives all the information. It was the overall winner of a European competition held by the Society of German Nature Photographers. It isn't actually an international competition but maybe was referred to that way because entries are accepted from parts of Europe besides Germany. Some of the entries seem more abstract or nontraditional. I think the title 'Living Rock Art' refers to its resemblance to cave drawings.

http://www.gdtfoto.de/seiten/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year.html
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9 years 4 months ago #416049 by JeremyS
One of the top local wildlife photogs here has a lot of work like that. With blur and abstract, I personally don't get it and it just looks like a bad attempt at saving a failed photo IMO. 

I can't see why that photo is able to win a wildlife competition, it just seems counter intuitive. 
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