This was the second round the PDI Trophy Competition at Farnborough Camera Club in the 2022-2023 season. One submitted image had to be an abstract and the other an open image.
Hidden eyes and faces
As we walked along the boardwalk in Halifax Nova Scotia I noticed reflections in small “harbour” isolated from the sea by the boardwalk itself. With a lot of cropping and some changes to saturation etc this is the result.
Summary of judge’s comments
…these are reflections
… the challenge for me now is to find the hidden eyes and faces , the eyes are not too bad as you can see them around here, . But where’s the face?
… we all can see things differently … there’s probably one just here
… well looked at, well defined reflection and look there’s even one of those [things] out of Star Wars with a little camera
… there’s loads of things you can see
.. hold that one back please
Watching the river pass by
On our third day in New York in October 20022 we were on a water ferry coming down the Hudson. We had left the 35th Street terminal and were somewhere around 16th Street when I noticed this lady just watching the river and Manhattan pass by us.
Summary of judge’s comments
… this is disturbing only me in my head, looks like New York or it might be somewhere else
… the phone is well in focus
… what was the title again? if you are watching the river why isn’t the river more in focus? Because you are watching the river pass by so therefore you would have thgought you’d have been looking at the river which [should] be more defined rather than blurred
… so for me the title and the image don’t match up , that is just me
… there shouild be a little bit more definition in that eye , it may be more difficult because of the harsh shadow
… for it not matching and the river being out of focus – a seven
The scores
There were 19 images in each part of this round in the Advanced Division.
“Hidden eyes and faces” scored 10 and “Watching the river pass by” scored 7.
The original images
“Hidden eyes and faces”
ISO 100 f/7.1 1/100 sec -0.3 exposure 65 mm
Visit to Halifax Nova Scotia in October 2022 – TBA
“Watching the river pass by”
ISO 100 f/8 1/400 sec 63mm
Third day in New York in October 2022 – TBA