Cowboys and Indians Magazine Annual Photo Contest Winners
Mar 3, 2013 13:12:34 #
I entered the Cowboys and Indians Magazine annual photo contest this year. The winners are now available to view online at: http://www.cowboysindians.com/Cowboys-Indians/March-2013/2013-Photo-Contest-Cowboy-Up/ or in the March issue of the magazine. I am so humbled after viewing the winners. I'd like to share my submissions and ask anyone that wants to take the time to review them in light of the winning contributions and provide any critique that you feel will help me advance my craft. Please and thank you in advance.
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Portraits
Equine
Mar 3, 2013 13:30:51 #
Hey twna,
I think that your top picture is perhaps the strongest in the set, mainly because it carries the greatest sense of the mythos and mystery of the West. Unfortunately, some of these things are relative and after seeing the winners I can see the stiff competition you were up against! Their pictures were so iconic and yet also unique. Look at the Equine winner, for example, and look at how the horse in that was almost deified, it is the epitome of a wild horse, the Spirit of the West in a way. The challenge, as I'm sure you know, is not just the photo quality but the right mix of subjects. All that being said, keep up your hard work, I think you're on the right track, just as we all are here!
I think that your top picture is perhaps the strongest in the set, mainly because it carries the greatest sense of the mythos and mystery of the West. Unfortunately, some of these things are relative and after seeing the winners I can see the stiff competition you were up against! Their pictures were so iconic and yet also unique. Look at the Equine winner, for example, and look at how the horse in that was almost deified, it is the epitome of a wild horse, the Spirit of the West in a way. The challenge, as I'm sure you know, is not just the photo quality but the right mix of subjects. All that being said, keep up your hard work, I think you're on the right track, just as we all are here!
Mar 3, 2013 20:24:02 #
RomanRioter, Thank you for your positive encouragement. It was incredible competition. Like I said, I am so humbled. I do appreciate that you didn't tell me just to hang it up:). I'll keep working.
Mar 3, 2013 20:48:29 #
I am humbled and I didn't even enter the competition! It appears, though I may be wrong, that professional photographers entered the competition. Is it open to all photographers or just amateurs? I like your first and second photos. The third one could use a different sky color.
Mar 3, 2013 20:54:57 #
amyinsparta wrote:
I am humbled and I didn't even enter the competition! It appears, though I may be wrong, that professional photographers entered the competition. Is it open to all photographers or just amateurs? I like your first and second photos. The third one could use a different sky color.
The competition was open to all photographers. Thanks for the suggestion.
Mar 3, 2013 23:29:31 #
Mar 3, 2013 23:49:37 #
Hello Twna , I agree the first two really make a statement, and a little photoshop in the third one could create a blue sky for you, the Fox has too much of a shadow, but a great subject. Thanks for posting your wonderful photos.
Mar 3, 2013 23:54:09 #
Mar 4, 2013 01:46:46 #
I think you have some nice photos. If the second one of the bloody hand had shown a hint of a big belt buckle or something similar, to give more of a 'rodeo' touch it would have spoken to the judges much stronger. The braclet does bring it in too but just a thought. Congrats for being a contestant and good luck on your next entries.
Mar 11, 2013 10:15:40 #
Wildwing, thanks for the suggestion.
wildwing76 wrote:
I think you have some nice photos. If the second one of the bloody hand had shown a hint of a big belt buckle or something similar, to give more of a 'rodeo' touch it would have spoken to the judges much stronger. The braclet does bring it in too but just a thought. Congrats for being a contestant and good luck on your next entries.
Mar 30, 2013 00:38:19 #
I like your fox photo a lot, shadows and highlights great,This year,I too entered a competition, for a photo essay, that had to tell a story. and the winner was a lady who had done a 2 year photography course,full time and very expensive, and now is a professional.For those of us novice, medium to even more practised people, out here, I say, keep on trying.Cheers from Jean.p.s. what camera do you have? I have friends in Co,(eastern to middle) that I dearly want to visit one day.
the last photo in my essay, summer's work, starting with pine trees, felling, splitting, and then, The Fire.
Mar 30, 2013 00:45:50 #
Thanks Nancy. I like you photo. Looks cozy. I shoot with a Sony A380. Hoping to add an A57 soon. I like the way Sony feels in my hands. Where in Colorado are your friends? I live on the Western Slope just a mile from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. Come and visit, we'll go take pictures or something.:)
Nancy J wrote:
I like your fox photo a lot, shadows and highlights great,This year,I too entered a competition, for a photo essay, that had to tell a story. and the winner was a lady who had done a 2 year photography course,full time and very expensive, and now is a professional.For those of us novice, medium to even more practised people, out here, I say, keep on trying.Cheers from Jean.p.s. what camera do you have? I have friends in Co,(eastern to middle) that I dearly want to visit one day.
Mar 30, 2013 01:20:21 #
Hi, one lives in Nederland, and one in Breckenridge, both are true blog friends, we email regularly, and the doctor who was in NZ for a while, and looked after Hugh ( my husband) last year when he had 2 heart attacks is in Lafayette.He returned before I met him again and had a chance to thank him so much for his super care. I Google some places, and am truly astounded at distances!! Would love to visit one day, and in return, you are so welcome to our place in NZ.Greetings from Jean p.s. have a Canon 550D.
Mt Ruapehu, about 2 hours away
Taken from Lake Wakatipu, looking North to a real place called Paradise
Our place, August 2011,with snow, that seldom falls here
Mar 30, 2013 10:22:41 #
Nancy J wrote:
Hi, one lives in Nederland, and one in Breckenri... (show quote)
Breckenridge is about 2-2 1/2 hours from where I live. Lafayette is further East.
The view from my kitchen window
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Mar 30, 2013 13:52:00 #
A beautiful place, is that your paddock with hay bale? I Googled the Black Canyon, amazing, Hugh would be so happy to visit and do photography to his heart's content , me too. Just a dream right now, but who knows what is ahead? Cheers from Jean
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