Feeling good about “blue”
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 10:17pm
Being the first Tuesday of the month, tonight was judging night at the Waverley Camera Club where the topic was “blue”.
But what is blue? Is it the colour? What about the mood, such as depression? Or sex, such as a blue movie?
My first idea involved taking a lego car outside:
Yes, it is just a blue toy in the garden, but I spent quite a while shooting this in various locations until I thought it conveyed a sense of action. With the dirt on the wheels I can imagine that it is driving up into the frame.
The judge awarded this a highly commended.
Next I spent a lot of time thinking about how to convey the colour blue, but not necessarily with the colour blue. For this I turned to the drawer full of games and was able to assemble a few variations of the word ‘blue’ from non-blue coloured blocks.
But then I started playing around with a Scrabble set and the Wikipedia shades of blue category:
I spent hours playing around with different words layouts and lighting until I was happy with the photo above. But I also had a close alternative image that I would have titled “3-1-1-1”. What that photo would have been is an exercise for the reader.
This print was awarded a merit.
After spending a considerable amount of time on the two printed images, I was lazy with the digital images and ended up picking two that I had taken previously, one from Melbourne Photo Walk #3, and one from the night after the photo walk.
This HDR shot of Eureka was a no brainer due to the sheer amount of blue. The entry was further cropped down to remove a tree from the bottom corner:
This was awarded a merit.
My final image is one that I quite liked, but I considered it flawed because the subject was flawed:
The flaws are evident in the lights of the ferris wheel, some sections are not lighting up and other sections are stuck on the wrong colour.
The judge obviously didn’t care about those flaws and he awarded this the image of the month in the B grade digital category. I was pleasantly surprised.
This is my highest result so far, with all four of my photos receiving an award. This also means that, at this rate, my aggregate score will soon be high enough to push me up into A grade. I welcome the challenge.
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Well done Stephen. You’re becoming quite the accomplished photographer.
Wes - October 7th, 2009 at 8:10 am