I agree with doug's comments.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Brewer" <d...@alphoto.com>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Question for Mark, Doug, William and anyone else that has
judgeda photo contest
On 9/19/11 10:08 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2011-markhamfair/album/index.html
In my markham fair post, i mentioned that one of the jays shots, 6037,
the landing one, is a bit soft, Paul calls in motion blur.:-) This is
the one i like for the wild bird class, but am bothered by this bit of
softness, which does not really show up at web sizes so i just noticed
it when i printed it out.
Question to the judges on the list, would this be a deal breaker or
not. The concept of the photo is jays in flight, but would the
softness or motion blur be enough to say, "nope, try again next year
Brooksie". My other choices are #'s 6034 and 6057 in the above link.
Thoughts???
Dave
yeah, the issue is that when we look at a photo we look for the thing in
focus and think that is the subject. In the shot in question, by this
logic, the peanuts on the bench appear to be the subject. If the Jay was
the only thing in the photo, I could maybe grant a little wiggle room on
the focus, but then the problem might be someone else delivering a shot
where the bird was in perfect focus, and I'd go with that one. Not knowing
the relative quality of the typical Markham Fair submissions, though, I
would be hard for me to make that call.
The short answer would then be, as always, "it depends."
If it were my shot, I'd probably wait for next year, but I'm way too
critical of my own work.
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