Taylor Wessing

Pookeyhead said:
There would be a great deal of reflection back from the dog's white legs and the middle persons legs. However.. if it has, why is that a problem. Everyone in this forum retouches and processes work, yet we expect a high end prize image to not have any, and criticise it if it has. How strange. It's like admiting it's OK with your work work, because that's just crap, but a prize winner should have none.

In as much as it the photographer chose to shoot in this style, then yes. Does that matter too? I think you'll find most portraits are "set up" :)
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Hey, hold on a bit David, my comments on the lighting were more observations than criticism.
“Question” may have been the wrong word, as I would be the last person on the planet to criticise any method used to create an image/picture.
I’ve done allsorts in the past, bleaching, masking, moving and tilting baseboards/easels, even scattered sand on paper before exposing to create snow, vasalean, crinkled sweet wrappers, multiple exposure any thing I could to make my image different or stand out from the pack.
So if he dodged it , bleached it, or painted the kids face that’s fine by me, the judges liked it and that’s all that matters at the end of the day. :).

Rhodese.
 
The winning one does nothing for me, I think there are a few better ones and really like the Lenny Henry one.
 
A lot of these competion winners and praise for them make me feel like I'm the only one looking at the Emperor's nob.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I don't recall any animal holding last year. I remember a goat in a backpack.. or maybe that was a dream.. LOL
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Goat in a back pack was last year, was it 2010 and 2011 with ginger kids holding animals (girl in a white labcoat and guinea pig?). We've returned to form this year with two ginger kids and chicken :D

I think I'll have to wait until I see them displayed. They had a certain presence when viewed, much better than seeing on a screen. Certainly the Lenny Henry image is interesting, but I can see the appeal of the winner.
 
Pookeyhead said:
They're typologies... nothing new.... nothing that August Sander wasn't doing early last century. Sometimes it's the best way to see a person.. sometimes, ironically, the personality gets in the way. That shot of Lenny Henry is a good example. Do we need another image of Lenny Henry in a baggy, brightly coloured suit acting stupid? Would that shot of the little girl with the skateboard be better if she was smiling? I'm not saying no one can ever smile in a portrait, I'm just asking what would these two images I mention have that they don't have now?
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And I'm not saying everyone (or anyone) should smile in a portrait. I like the skate shot, and I like the Henry shot. But some of them just look like competition shots to me. I'm not saying I want photos of smiling people, I would just like to see interesting photos of real people looking like they look. Rather than photos of stereotypes looking like stereotypes should look for a photo competition (if they can look like that whilst holding an animal, or having red hair, all the better).
 
To me it looks like the winner may have fluked it?

I like the girl holding the skateboard, she looks very uncomfortable with it but I would love to see her riding it down the street in that garb.

And to keep that serious looking face :)
 
I like the winner.

I find lots of the others/rejected boring as hell.
 
The first one doesnt do it for me - it looks like a moment/snapshot
Shortlisted - like skate girl - the others leave me cold - indecisive moment I get but it just feels dull
Longlisted - none of them - I've been trying to avoid telegrph poles growing out of people's heads and I would hope a competition entry winner could avoid that

I still might go to see the exhibition, mind.
 
bdslr said:
The first one doesnt do it for me - it looks like a moment/snapshot
Shortlisted - like skate girl - the others leave me cold - indecisive moment I get but it just feels dull
Longlisted - none of them - I've been trying to avoid telegrph poles growing out of people's heads and I would hope a competition entry winner could avoid that

I still might go to see the exhibition, mind.
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I can't see any with telegraph poles sticking out of heads. What are you looking at?
 
Pookeyhead said:
I can't see any with telegraph poles sticking out of heads. What are you looking at?
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Very last image - Vijay Rudanlalji Banspal, by Karan Kumar Sachdev.

Ok - out of the side of his beard - but it's there
 
bdslr said:
Very last image - Vijay Rudanlalji Banspal, by Karan Kumar Sachdev.

Ok - out of the side of his beard - but it's there
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It's small, unobtrusive, out of focus.... it's just stuff in the background. Hardly a telegraph pole out of the head. What are you suggesting, we remove everything entirely? I think the use of the telegraph poles and how they've been positioned in the frame is actually quite good.
 
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