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By Martin Bailey, on February 23rd, 2010
Today we take a look at the results of the January MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment, on the theme of Square Crop.
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The Square Crop assignment was much more difficult than I had imagined it would be to come up with something compelling, but many of you rose to the occasion, and as usual, posted some incredible images. Let’s look at the three images that amassed the most votes from their peers, as usual, in reverse order.
In third place, we have Super Digital Girl, real name Leslie, with a superb photograph, “Ballerina” (below). Leslie sent me a little information on this photograph, as follows:
This past year I have been working on more documentary style photography so I decided to take a workshop in Connecticut with Elizabeth Opalenik to get in touch with my creative side again. The focus of the workshop [...]
By Martin Bailey, on December 15th, 2009
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Today it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the first MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment accumulated vote winners for the last six month’s assignments. As you know, when our sponsors WebSpy came on board in July 2009, they kindly set by $1,000 for prizes for our assignment, and I arranged some great prizes for the three people with the most votes from your peers in the six assignments from July to November. So today, we not only hear who the November assignment winners are, we find out who takes the amazing prizes that we have lined up.
Also, WebSpy have kindly offered to continue to be our sponsors, and have put up another $1,000 for prizes for the next six months of assignments, so today I will also announce the prizes that will be given to the lucky [...]
By Martin Bailey, on October 26th, 2009
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Before we take a look at the winning images, I wanted to note that since we upped the pace when we shifted to a monthly assignment, more and more I’m announcing the theme of the new assignments in the forum, and once announced, like earlier this month, I sometimes forget to announce the new theme in the Podcast. If you are waiting to hear what the new themes are each month, please do go to the Assignment & Critique forum and look for the announcement.
Also, we’ve been getting good feedback on the back-stories that I read from each of the winners last month, so I’m thinking that we’re going to make that the default moving forward, so the announcement of the winners is also now forum based, but I will mail each winner to alert you to [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 22nd, 2009
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Because I announced the winners via the Photography Forum last week, we actually are able to include a little behind the scenes type information on the images, as Landon and Marcus, two of the winners, shared their back-stories in the follow up thread on the forum. I’ll put a link to that thread in the show-notes, in case you’re interested in reading for yourself.
So, let’s take a look at the winning images, as usual, in reverse order, starting with Marcus Bain’s wonderful image m13892 (below), which is titled “Oil vs Water”. I’ll go into what I think of the shot shortly, but first, here’s that back-story, which I’m going to paraphrase from Marcus’ follow up forum post.
Oil vs Water (Copyright © Marcus Bain)
We heard that Marcus used a Lensbaby 3G with F5.6 aperture ring and the [...]
By Martin Bailey, on August 24th, 2009
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"Gecko on leaf" by qmcgrath
So, the images that we’ll look at today as usual will be included in the enhanced podcast, so you’ll see them in iTunes or on your iPod etc. Of course here on the blog they are posted below.
Let’s first go through the top three winners of the July Assignment that was on the theme of Backlit.
In third place was the totally amazing image, Gecko on leaf by Quintin McGrath. This is really just such an awesome photograph. I totally love it. Quintin has basically caught a Gecko, as the title implies, sitting on a leaf, and shot it through the leaf, using, yes, you guessed it, backlight. This is has so much depth, as we see the shadow of the gecko become more blurred as up the legs and torso, then on to [...]
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