What a surprise, these two images with their combined score gave me first place in Derby City Photographic Club's open print competition on Monday 17th May 2010.Steve Roper, an excellent judge, had something positive, supportive and constructive to say about all of the competition entries. The portrait of Leah on the left scored 19 points out of 20 and the portrait of Laura on the right scored 18 out of 20, giving a combined score of 37 points.
Why did the portrait of Laura score 18, the judge didn't like the pearl earing, he found it slightly distracting, so if I enter the image into other competitions perhaps I should call it "The Lady With The Pearl Earring" alluding to the portrait painted by Johannes Vermeer called "The Girl With The Pearl Earring" see here.
Well done Barry. And you proved the 'do not put two similar photos into a competition' rule does not always work! Hurrah! Rules are meant to be broken :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Janet, as you say rules are meant to be broken at times.
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