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Test Critique

The Critique this month had 26 members participate (view list).

91 total images were submitted: 90 Scored, 1 Non-Scored.

The Judge this month was William (Bill) Hodge.

High scoring images are displayed above, “Other Submitted Images” are displayed below.

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Critique Scores by Category

Images in the galleries are identified by the category in which they were submitted.
(Artistic Expression = “A”, Monochrome = “M”, Nature = “N”, Open Color = “O”, Sports = “S”, Special Subject = “SS”)

Entries and scores are available in the following PDF files, grouped by Category.

  • Altered Reality
  • Monochrome
  • Nature
  • Open Color
  • Sports
  • Special Subject: “Test”
    “Atmospheric images have specific moods. They are not just “captures”, but instead are images that make you feel how the photographer wants you to feel. Atmospheric photography can employ mist, fog, or the incredible range of emotive, ambient light – soft, harsh, warm, cold, indirect, top light, reflected, shadowy, light, and more. Long exposures that portray an illusion of “time passing” in a still image, or photographs of clouds, waves, and objects interacting with light can be “atmospheric”, as we’ll as images with qualities of softening lines, graduating light transitions, and pronounced sense of depth. Alfred Stieglitz, one of American’s iconic early photographers, described atmospheric qualities in an photograph as follows, evoking the effect of tone:“Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there. Atmosphere softens all lines; it graduates the transition from light to shade; it is essential to the reproduction of the sense of distance. That dimness of outline which is characteristic for distant objects is due to atmosphere. Now, what atmosphere is to Nature, tone is to a picture.”.

The Judge this month was William (Bill) Hodge, currently of Paso Robles. See Bill’s portrait work.

Bill advised three online educators for quality photography guidance:
Woody Walter
Sandra Pearce
Stu Davinci

High Scoring Images

High scoring images were awarded by the Judge. “High scoring” images are displayed at the top of this page, and are listed below by Category, in alphabetical order by the Maker’s name.

Altered Reality

  • Keith Leonin – Death Knell
  • George Harper – Explosion

Monochrome

  • Hilla Sadri – After the rain
  • Larry Goodman – Crystal Cove Sunset
  • Mike Bray – F-18
  • Lara Ferraro – Intent
  • Adriana Greisman – Peregrine Siblings B&W
  • Diane Hall – Spiral
  • Linda Berman – Written In the Sand
  • Karen Wells – Young Leo

Nature

  • Raymond LaBelle – Breakfast
  • Daniel Lee – Dandelion Wheel
  • Keith Leonin – Dragonfly
  • Ken Furuta – Scanning the Harbor
  • Russ Lazar – Shy

Open Color

  • Myra Posner – Lady In Yellow
  • Karen Wells – Skull Fire
  • Susan Brown Matsumoto – St. Pauls Greek Orthodox Church

Sports

  • George Harper – Blast Off
  • Ken Furuta – Concentration
  • Mike Bray – Taj Linblad
  • jack – one
  • jakc – two
  • mary – three
  • bill – five

Special Subject: “Test”

  • John Cornell – Jim
  • Karen Wells – Portrait of Determination

All Submitting Members (26)

  • Anonymous – Unscored (1)
  • Lawrie Bau
  • Linda Berman
  • Mike Bray
  • John Cornell
  • Andy Eugenio
  • Lara Ferraro
  • Brad Friesen
  • Ken Furuta
  • Larry Goodman
  • Adriana Griesman
  • Diane Hall
  • Bette Harper
  • George Harper
  • Raymond LaBelle
  • Russ Lazar
  • Daniel Lee
  • Keith Leonin
  • Mary Madden
  • Susan Brown-Matsumoto
  • Myra Posner
  • Ken Post
  • Hilla Sadri
  • Jeff Sarembock
  • Joel Sigman
  • Esther Spektor
  • Karen Wells

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Other Submitted Images

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