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19 Mar 2013 - 5:44 PM

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Big Bri

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19 Mar 2013 - 6:01 PM

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What about the portrait section of the youth awards

"Ariadna in Urquinaona by Berta Vicente took first place in the portrait section of the youth awards. He said: "One day I came across an uninhabited building. Once inside, I imagined a girl I used to meet in the bus there, I made it true.""

So, it's a sloping shot of a building, with someone photoshopped into it....

scottishphototours

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19 Mar 2013 - 6:29 PM

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Quote: I like them

How can you not smile at the winner of the 'Smile' section?

All of them??!! - I was referencing only one image but love the "Smile" winner.

BigBri's right - what signal does the winner he refers to send out to young photographers? - "if you can't take the picture, make the picture"??? - sorry, that's all wrong in my eyes.

paulcookphotography

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19 Mar 2013 - 6:51 PM

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Dont you just love how these competitions bring the photography community together... to bitch about others' work!

With regards to the junior winner: I dont see anything wrong with it. Its not breaking any of the outlined rules

With regards to the People section winner: Its not my cup of tea, but it is typical of what you see in a lot of competitions these days. Personally i think its possibly the cultural difference that attracts some interest, but its certainly more interesting than looking at a typical wedding photograph

paulcookphotography

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19 Mar 2013 - 7:01 PM

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Quote: With regards to the junior winner: I dont see anything wrong with it. Its not breaking any of the outlined rules

I'm not saying it breaks the rules, but there must have been a better portrait that was actually shot in camera..... surely.....

So therefore an edited image, while within the rules, should not win against a shot that is unedited? Doesn't really make much sense

Coleslaw (e2 Member)

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19 Mar 2013 - 7:34 PM

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Quote: but there must have been a better portrait that was actually shot in camera..... surely.....

If you didn't read the caption, would you have really known?

OK, I didn't really quite get that wedding shot, but I love most of them.

puertouk

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20 Mar 2013 - 10:08 AM

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The winner of the 3D shot was sloping to the right!!!!!!!!!!

samueldilworth

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20 Mar 2013 - 2:08 PM

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I like some of the winners much more than others, but Berta Vicente didn’t ‘Photoshop’ the girl into her photograph of the building. She met the girl on the bus and asked her to go to the building, and there she photographed her. That’s what is meant by making it true.

Berta Vicente is nineteen. At that age most of us thought a wistful girl in a window was high art. Maturity provides scepticism, but it’s always easier to criticise than to do (just ask me).

If you want to complain about Photoshop, and for the record I do, isn’t Gilbert Yu’s photo of the Fung Shun fire dragon dance a better target? It looks like a painting. Or Rush Hours by Manny Fajutag, which looks like a dreamscape.

Don’t you find the happy couple winner of the people section the least bit interesting? The man’s hands holding the shoes so straightforwardly, honestly, without pretence? (Hands themselves are symbols of honesty.) His feet splayed gracelessly, since this is a candid moment and not a time for putting on airs? The woman with her sore feet up? The alignment of the painting with his head? The beauty of youth? The head-on camera angle revealing all? The black-white-black-white motif from left to right across the frame? To me this photo pits honesty against the charade of the event.

Any legitimately challenging statement will be controversial.

Apparently these photos go on show in April at Somerset House, which is my favourite building in London. They might look very different in such a setting.