2006 Fall Contest
Details
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Judges Comments
The shallow depth of field and the saturated orange color make this detail shot stand above the others. If you're trying to show the ring, or rings, but it's in the context of another element like a butterfly landing on the bride's finger, you're in luck. It also helped that the lens used to isolate the insect made a mesh out of the background color which matched the monarch. That's seeing, skill, and luck.
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Judges Comments
JUDGES COMMENTS:It's one thing to have the subject standing or a cake on a table or a detail that doesn't move, it's quite another to capture a detail moment. This photographer captured a bride or bridesmaid on a swing at peak action, with her shoeless feet crossed and a red bouquet in her hand. The emphasis is the red flowers, or the detail, but it's in the context of an action picture. Most of the rest of the photographs were quiet detail shots that were awarded in descending order based on how the photographer shot it and saw the subject.
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3rd Place: John Santerre from Maine, United StatesJudges Comments
Nice find! How many people would have walked right past this? It's a detail within a detail and I think its really successful. I also like the tilted framing - a much better angle than if shot level.
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Very simple, very compelling. The photographer worked this scene well, with great light and a minimalist's approach. The photo speaks volumes.
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5th Place: Sam Dean from Virginia, United StatesJudges Comments
All one needs to see are the hands on his head; you know it's a very intimate moment. Well constructed with the additional compositional use of the lights in the background.
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6th Place: David Wegwart from Colorado, United StatesJudges Comments
This photographer was thinking! It is easy to miss those interesting things that happen below eye level. Nice contrasts.
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7th Place: Bill Holland from Virginia, United States -
8th Place: Charlie McLarty from Georgia, United StatesJudges Comments
This is a really nice scene-setter. A great opening to a story about the wedding. I like the framing too - including a lot of the sky is a nice way to balance the frame. I'm also glad the photographer took this approach instead of getting much closer to the sign itself.
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Judges Comments
It is nice to see a photographer who is not afraid to lie in the grass and do what is necessary to make a nice image. Composition and timing make an ordinary photo extraordinary.
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10th Place: Jeanie Ow from British Columbia, CanadaJudges Comments
I saw a good share of bubble pictures in the all images submitted in this contest, and of all of them, I think this one is the most successful. The bubble is in just the right spot, and is the focal point of the frame. The bubble also appears to have some kind of 3-D effect, as if it is raising out of the plane of the photograph itself. Very cool.
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11th Place: Earl Christie from Massachusetts, United StatesJudges Comments
It's a cake picture. But what a cake picture. The candlelight and the out of focus wedding couple in the background shows how you can take a boring scene, and make it a special frame. In this case composition and light made the photograph, and it was the photographer who made that all happen with skill and seeing.
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Judges Comments
Unusual, sensitive, personal detail.
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13th Place: Shane Carpenter from Maryland, United StatesJudges Comments
A very sensuous image that speaks to the intimacy of the entire ceremony. Makes me want to get married again!!
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14th Place: Shane Carpenter from Maryland, United StatesJudges Comments
Details is the category, and the beauty here is in the detail. I like the idea of bringing something so common to the front here..an important component of the whole process...getting ready.
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15th Place: Michael Escalera from Nevada, United StatesJudges Comments
Is this what happens after you get married? I laughed.
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16th Place: John Santerre from Maine, United StatesJudges Comments
This is an unusual detail that could easily been missed.
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17th Place: Tara Lokey from Oklahoma, United StatesJudges Comments
A nice detail image found while dancing. Very clean and simple. I like that the photographer included space in the frame for the floor at the bottom.
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19th Place: Matt McGraw from North Carolina, United StatesJudges Comments
Passing the shoes shows a ring, a small digital camera, and a white elbow length glove outstretched. It's an elegant frame that took anticipation to capture, and the right lens. It says wedding without any words, and formal by the dress, and the hand gestures. It's another detail moment.
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20th Place: Patrick Low from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
