Sports photagraphy continued

1. Watch any four of the Runner-up videos, and answer the following on your blog:
Name of photographer - Carlos Delgado
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- Stories
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -One problem that the judges found on Carlos Delgado's shoot is that he had a hard time staying on topic with his shoot. and other was the background of photos were very static many had large mergers with stuff sticking out of peoples head or the background was just to distracting.
List two things the judges like- The judges did not like much but they did note that  Carlo's pictures had a good story and with much work and motivation they can be very creative story.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like? I felt the same as the judges his intentions for the story were good but it seems he did not take it as seriously as he could have .


2. Watch the winning portfolio critique (Dustin Snipes), and post the following:
What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it? The judges noticed that Dustin's photos followed a good path,as in the story was not off topic. they also enjoyed that his photos were very close to the subjects. An example to this is were Dustin is shooting the rugby players or runners witch ever they are and he seems to be running with them and gets a full shot in detail of one of the runners falling.

What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses? What I see as Dustin's strengths are that he is very creative and is able to plan ahead of shooting even for a split second he seems to know what he is going to shoot and he is also able keep distracting backgrounds away, however this is were his weakness starts to come in is that with out photo editing programs like photoshop his photos could have very distracting backgrounds, as some of his photos may have to mutch editing. However Dustin is a very creative photoagrapher and he can go a long way.

3. Watch the contest recap video.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner. The judges looked at some rules of photoagraphy and seacherd more for photos with a story on it, they enjoyed if they could find expressions of people if a person was the main consentration.

Part 2- Individual Images

1. Describe one photo that you agree with the judges on. Explain why you and the judges do or do not like it. I agreed with the judges desicion the photo with the sumo wreseler in the category pictures of the year, due to it had good rules of photagraphy, it had leading lines and the womans facial expression made the photo even better because it helped explain the photo even more.

2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong  The photo I did not agree on with the photagraphers was the black and white photo with a basket ball team in the locker room getting ready for a game and one of the players is holding up a ball. They picked it as second place and in my opinion I did not see much rules of photagraphy in the photo, it was not as dynamic as the others and it beat the photo that got third place wich was the soccer player jumping int the air wich had good rules as in leading lines and frames and it had a good shot of the expression of the player
which made the photo stand out more.