Third Round of the PDI Trophy Competition 2021-2022

This was the third round the PDI Trophy Competition at Farnborough Camera Club in the 2021-22 season and this was an open round with two images.

Battersea Power Station at night

Summary of judge’s comments
Here is a classic view of the Power Station, I love the way it is composed

there is the rail depot on the left which is just so beautifully lit by its own floodlighting, , like a little letterbox in the sub-part of the main image and then above the rail depot there is theses coloured lights which are presumably traffic lights for the trains , [they] lead your eye across to the power station, which is now presumably full of flats which is what these lights are, and then you look up and see the illuminated chimneys

I think it is a very well constructed image and you’ve got these light trails going round the outside which must be trains

The Golden Circle for this image is starts with the rail depot , then down and around this curve of train lights and then up to the power station and the flats and chimneys

It is a great composition technique so I’m going to hold this back

Time out for a smoke

Summary of judge’s comments
A good bit of street photography, monochrome does tend to work much better for street photography

I couldn’t work out what the poster was actually saying but now I have worked out the artist is Morrison and ‘FT.AITCH’ stands for featuring Aitch and the album is called ‘House and Garage’, it works very well it balances the guy who is there, a butcher or something, having a break, having a smoke,

I think the tall upright portrait/letterbox works very well

Both the figure poster and the guy, having a cigarette, have their hands up. The more you look at it the more parallels you see his apron is vertical black and white stripes, part of the poster is horizontal black and white stripes. I think the mimicking is very well spotted

I suspect the photographer maybe should have waited a few seconds so this guy took the cigarette out of his mouth because if he had his hand up holding the cigarette he would almost of been a mirror image of the guy [in the poster]

He is pretty good now but being an exact mirror image and that would have been just too perfect for words but as you might imagine I’m going to hold this one back

The scores

There were 34 images in this round in the Advanced Division.

‘Time out for a smoke’ scored 9.5 and ‘Battersea Power Station at night’ scored 10.

 

The original images

‘Battersea Power Station at night’:

ISO 100  105 mm f/22 and  25 seconds

‘Time out for a smoke’:

ISO 640,  35 mm f/8 and  1/250 sec

I do have a picture of the man with cigarette in hand.