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Theme 3: the decisivemoment
This month’s theme is all about the catching the decisive moment, the very instant key elements in your picture coalesce for the ultimate result. Take theshot a fractiontooearlyoramillisecond too late and the picture just does not have the same impact. The term ‘the decisive moment’ was coined by photographic legend Henri Cartier Bresson and he used it as the title for his book published in 1952. “There is nothing in thisworld that does not have a decisivemoment,” he said. So, for this month’s round, we want to see pictures that rely on the decisive moment for their success and illustrate the importance of perfect, split-second timing. For this contest, the choice of subject is entirely up to you because precise timing is crucial in many areas. With people and street photography you want that fleeting expression while in sports, it’s capturing the instant the footballerheads theball into thenet orwhen two racing cars make contact and sparks fly. These are obvious examples but please feel free to go for different subjects. If you’re a nature worker, it could be the instant a kingfisher emergeswith a stickleback in its beak, or if your interest is setting up shots, it could a picture of a water- filled balloon being burst by a dart. Images will be judged individually and not as a set, so your club can mix and match your subjects as you please and there is no problem if you want to enter five street shots, for example. Sowhenyouare selectingpictures for entry, just askyourself: does the image trulydepend on the decisivemoment for its success?
LEFT The picture ismade by the chap on the right turning round towards the camera at the decisivemoment. ABOVE Many of the latest flashguns have incredibly brief durations to enable action stopping shots like this. BELOWLEFT Cameras with fast continuous shooting are a great helpwith timing shots like this. Or just incredibly good timing.
Theme 4: fantastic light
Score
Great Notley Photographic Club
90
Leicester Forest Photographic Society
89
Norwich & District Photographic Society
89
Leighton Buzzard Photographic Club
88
Bedford Camera Club
86
City Photo Club
86
ImageZ Camera Club
86
New City Photographic Society
86
Closing date 5 February 2018
PICO
86
Preston Photographic Society
86
Seaford Photographic Society
86
Thewinner: Theme 2: portrait
Harpenden Photographic Society
85
Steyning Camera Club
85
Trostre Camera Club
85
Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society
85
GreatNotleyPhotographicClubwon thismonth’s portrait contest so congratulations to them. Their winning entry scored consistently highly to keep them in front of the opposition. We had a couple of low scoring clubs this month, so it is worth explaining why. One club sent four images with a resolution of 300x300 pixels so it was not possible to even see if the shots were sharp or not, resulting in low scores. Another club entrant sent in a portrait of an owl, when the requirements stated very clearly that the main subject of the picture had top be of a human being, so it was disqualified and scored 0. SobeforeyousendinentriesforRound3,please ensure the pictures are within the published requirements for the theme and that the images are at least 1500 pixels on the longest dimension.
Wisbech & District Camera Club
85
Ayr PS
84
Caister Photography Club
84
Maidenhead Camera Club
84
Park Street Camera Club
84
*Eastbourne Photographic Society
83
Peterborough Photographic Society
83
Synergy
83
Windsor Photographic Society
83
City of London and Cripplegate PS
82
Dunholme Camera Club
82
Frome Wessex Camera Club
82
Grantham and District Photographic Society
82
Tonbridge Camera Club
82
Blandford Forum Camera Club
81
Dorchester Camera Club
80
Midlothian Camera Club
80
Medway DSLR Camera Club
79
Norfolk Photographers Camera Club
79
Wokingham & East Berkshire Camera Club
79
Brentwood & District Photographic Club
78
Conset Photographic Society
76
Axholme Camera Club
75
Eastwood Photographic Society
69
Beckenham Photographic Society
68
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