For the Intro to Photography Workshop, you may all know by now, we host an in-houst contest for the best image. The student who submits the best image from the day will receive a free photography workshop! Some classes it’s barely a competition, other classes, we narrow them down and then take forever to choose a winner. For the May Fourth Intro Workshop, it was a funny mix of the two. Those that sent in images sent in more than one that was hard to narrow down. But we eventually did and we love sharing the images of your peers here on the blog!
This week’s free workshop goes to Sabrina! Check out the playful, yet emotional, beautiful black and white that won! Sabrina tried her hand at a longer lens that helped achieved the extreme depth of field. The longer lens is a bit heavy, awkward to handle, and especially tricky when you have over 15 people taking pictures at the same subject. We highly advise students to play around with the different lenses we are happy to let you borrow!
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This next image of Sabrina’s we just keep coming back to. The composition is quirky yet calming and really wonderful. What could have been captured as an awkward moment of our model checking for dirt on her dress, Sabrina captured as a moment of longing. It’s very beautiful, and all the emotion is heighten by choosing the turn it black and white.
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We don’t want to only show case the winner, because it’s too true that it’s hard to choose. So here are a few runner ups!
Diego: Captured a lovely lawn pose, we’re just missing the catch light in her eyes 😉
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The next runner up is David S! David had many images, but this one was our favorite, the only thing that could make this picture even better is to crop in a little tighter, eliminate a slightly distracting background. The models have a great moment happening. If you cropped in (post production cropping is totally acceptable) the moment would be highlighted =).jpg)
The last two images are by David B. David made the finals because of his unique composition. All the images he submitted just showed his unique eye and how he viewed things! At our intro workshops we encourage students to think outside the box from the scenes we’ve set up in front of them, and David B. did just that! .jpg)
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We hope to see everyone at an Intro II workshop or intermediate workshop soon! everyone who submitted has incredible potential just waiting to be unleashed!
