Hall Exhibits - Photography: 2012
SECTION G
PHOTOGRAPHY
Chief Steward: Colleen Archibald 9733 1087, 0430 587 871
Exhibitors Please Note:
- Each exhibit must be marked with exhibitor’s name, section and class on the back.
- Exhibitors restricted to two entries per class.
- Photographs may be mounted on black or white card with a maximum 3cm border.
- The photograph must NOT be in a frame.
- Except for classes 3, 23, and 29 digital manipulation must be restricted to cropping and or slight adjustment of brightness, contrast and colour saturation.
- Monochrome may be achieved by the digital removal of colour to produce a black and white or sepia toned image only.
- Photographs can be printed by a commercial printer or home printer but the exhibit MUST CONFORM TO SIZE REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH CLASS.
- All entries are to have been photographed by the exhibitor.
- All exhibits and entry forms to be in the hands of the Secretary by 4.00 pm., Wednesday 12th October, 2011
- No previous WAROONA SHOW prize winning entries are eligible.
All classes: 3 points for 1st, 2 points for 2nd.
All Class Entries - $1.00
First Prize $6.00, Second Prize $3.00.
Les Davis Annual Trophy
awarded for the most points in Photography
Supreme Exhibit
donated by Waroona Post Office
Best Enlargement prize
donated by Mandurah Camera House and Duty Free
Junior High School Photographer prize
donated by Mandurah Camera House and Duty Free
Primary School Photographer prize
donated by Colleen Archibald
MONOCHROME (BLACK & WHITE)
Minimum size 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5”x 7”)
Maximum size 20.3cm x 30.5cm (8” x 12”)
Class
1. Portrait
2. Open, any subject not included above
MANIPULATED PHOTOGRAPHY
Minimum size 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5”x 7”)
Maximum size 20.3cm x 30.5cm (8” x 12”)
The image is digitally manipulated or altered.
Please show imagination and creativity.
Class
3. Open any subject
COLOUR SNAPSHOT
Maximum size 10cm x 15cm (4” x 6”)
Class
4. Portrait or Group Study
5. Pet or Animal Portrait
6. Flower/s
7. Landscape
8. Seascape
9. Sunrise or Sunset
10. Architecture – Portrait of a Building
11. Peel-Harvey Region Study
12. Open, any subject not included above
COLOUR PRINTS – ENLARGEMENT
Minimum size 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5”x 7”)
Maximum size 20.3cm x 30.5cm (8” x 12”)
Class
13. Portrait or Child Study
14. Landscape or Seascape
15. Action or Sports
16. Sunrise or Sunset
17. Open, any subject not included above
JUNIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Primary School, Years Kindergarten to 7.
Please state your school and year on the entry form.
Maximum size for Class 18 - 21 — 10cm x 15cm (4” x 6”)
All Class Entries $1.00
Prizes: 1st $6.00, 2nd $3.00
Class
18.Portrait or Group Study
19.Pet or Animal Portrait
20 Landscape
21.Open, any subject not included above
Class 22 - 23
Minimum size 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5” x 7”)
Maximum size 20.3cm x 30.5cm (8” x12”)
22.Colour Enlargement – Open, any subject
23.Manipulated image – Open, any subject
(The image is digitally manipulated or altered.)
JUNIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior High School, Years 8-10.
Please state your school and year on the entry form.
Maximum size for Class 24 - 27 10cm x 15cm (4” x 6”)
Class
24.Portrait or Group Study
25.Pet or Animal Portrait
26.Landscape
27.Open, any subject not included above
Class 28 - 29
Minimum size 12.7cm x 17.8cm (5” x 7”)
Maximum size 20.3cm x 30.5cm (8” x 12”)
28.Colour Enlargement – Open, any subject
29.Manipulated image – Open, any subject
(The image is digitally manipulated or altered.)
PHOTOGRAPHY HINTS AND TIPS
Portrait
This is a photographic portrait of a person who is posing for the camera. The subject should be making eye contact with the viewer but this is not a hard and fast rule. The picture should show the subject’s character and mood, happy, sad, serious etc. Lighting is very important and where ever possible natural light should be used. Flash can be used as a fill in if the subject is in shadow but try to avoid direct flash as this
produces “red eye” in the subject, is very unsightly and not suitable in competition.
Keep the pose simple and comfortable and avoid fussy or messy backgrounds. A background that distracts the viewer from the subject will penalise your picture. Avoid objects behind that look as if they are growing out of the subject’s head. Chopping off part of a person in the photo is also undesirable unless you are using tight framing and only want the subject’s head and shoulders. The photo should be printed in portrait
and not landscape format.
Group Study
All of the previous comments apply. The object of this class is to produce a posed portrait of a group of people, like a family or a wedding group. Again pay attention to background and lighting, don’t have your subjects squinting into bright sunlight.
Pet Portrait
All of the rules that apply to humans apply to pets. The pet should fill as much of the picture frame as possible and again check out your background for anything that will distract the viewer (and the judge) away from your subject. Try to get down to their level for best results.
Architecture
This is basically a portrait of a building designed to show the building off to its best advantage. The photo should be filled with the building and the scenery that has nothing to do with the building excluded. If there are vehicles parked in front perhaps you should wait until they are gone before taking the picture. Bright diffused sunlight is the best light, try to avoid bright midday light that throws deep shadows.
Landscape and Seascape
The object of the exercise is to try to convey to your viewers the things that interested you in the landscape in the first place. Composition is very important in a good landscape or seascape as is lighting. The time of day can turn a good scene into a flat one, early morning or late afternoon is usually the best, avoid midday sun. One of the hardest things to do in a photograph is to portray the slope of a hill since a photograph converts a three dimensional image to a two dimensional one. Have a look at a book
on the subject for some ideas. Remember that the scene that attracted you will have to dominate the picture in order to interest others so exclude all other distractions. If you are taking a photo of the horizon in a seascape make sure it is level, many good compositions have been penalised for tilted horizons.
Sunrise and Sunsets
We have some magnificent sunsets in WA, some of the most spectacular in the world. Pointing a camera at the sky to photograph one, means that everything else on the ground will be a dark shadow. Minimise the dark area as much as possible in the picture but include interesting silhouettes that will add to the interest of the picture. Experiment is the best advice and as it is the sky that provides the interest, exclude
all that intrudes except to provide a little framing or depth. The judge will be looking
for impact more than anything in this class and it is keenly contested.
Open
This class is for any subject not covered by the rest of the program. All entries will be judged for impact above all else since they will have to compete against several differing subject matters. Technical correctness is a must. An entry whose subject matter is covered by another class will be shifted to that class at the discretion of the steward or the judge.
The following points will penalise your picture.
- Cluttered and messy backgrounds
- Tilted horizons
- Out of focus or blurred from a shaky camera
- Writing or labels on the front (turn off date functions for competition photos)
- Subject not filling the frame, especially portraits
- Part of the subject chopped off (feet or an arm)
- Not sticking to size restrictions (too big or too small)
- Not sticking to the subject
What the judge is looking for when judging
- Impact – does it leap out and grab you
- Technical correctness – composition, focus, redeye etc
- Presentation – Clean, no writing on the front no date
- Does it conform to size requirements – an overlarge picture will be penalised even if it is a better photo – a small photo penalises itself.
The use of Digital Cameras
Pictures from digital cameras may be entered in all classes especially as there are not so many film cameras any more. However the pictures must not have been excessively manipulated by a computer program to alter their original form or to exclude or enhance parts of the original picture. The use of cropping, brightness, contrast and hue adjustments are permissible. Digital photos should be printed on
photo quality paper not plain paper.
Digital Manipulation
Pictures that have been manipulated, enhanced or even made up from several
different subjects using a computer program may only be presented in the Digital
Manipulation classes. Artistic creativity, imagination and impact are important for
this class.
Jim Camplin - Photography Judge