The club has some very skilled (and award winning) nature and portrait photoraphers, and some who are excellent at landscapes and creative works. Over the past 6 or 7 years, I've almost exclusively submitted motorsport images for the competitions. Sometimes I do quite well, possibly as my work is something different to the more common nature, landscape and portrait entries, and sometimes very poorly. One judges comment was "it's a record shot of a motor car" and then went on to wax lyrical for 5 minutes about lovely feather detail and catchlights in a birds eye in what many thought was an average "bird on a stick" image.
I think some judges dont know what they are looking at
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- Thread starter DD_Crash
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This was very much the case 8-10 years ago before Zoom allowed judges from further afield to be used on a more regular basis. Some had quite narrow ranges of expertise (e.g. nature specialists) and clearly favoured images from their genre, but could recognise the qualities in good landscape and portrait photos. However, when presented with something outside their comfort zone (creative, urbex etc) they didn't have much of a clue. I had one who suggested I could use a faster shutter speed and wider aperture to get less blurring of the wheels and more of the car in sharp focus
Small world, I live in Mold.