2020-2021 Triple Format Competition Results
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Full results from judge Steven Galvin on 17 May 2021
| Place | Rank | Score | Author | Judging_sequence_and_Title | Comments |
| 1st | 1 | 20 | John Humphrey | 22-1 Primulae 22-2 Havana 22-3 Bell Book And Candle | 1st Place. Strong post production in 1st to create a distinctive and creative style, but yellow area slightly dominates. 2nd face-on bold, mono apt, crop just right, with men and bike just right. 3rd mini close-up skill life well composed, but border too intrusive, coloured? |
| 2nd | 1 | 20 | James McCracken | 33-1 St. Quirico Dusk 33-2 Girl On A Balcony 33-3 Blue Umbrella In The Rain | 2nd Place. Moody atmospheric 1st image that would look good in a corporate boardroom or best selling book. Lighting makes the 2nd, with illumination of the shapes, textures, contours, and the direction of the author ensuring the pose is natural and interesting. Creative effect transforms image, but rain looks slightly 2D and the pink object distracting |
| 3rd | 1 | 20 | James McCracken | 27-1 Fisherman On The Misty Lake 27-2 Wet Rialto Market At Midnight 27-3 Purple Veil | 3rd Place. Placid 1st image, but to make it bigger in the screen, and so more impactful, perhaps crop RHS. Dramatic lighting makes the 2nd image! Direction of / engagement with model essential with 3rd image, but background slightly blown out. |
| 4 | 19 | John Humphrey | 05-1 Daffodil 05-2 Glass Of Smoke 05-3 Knock Knock | Delightful flower except for some edges. Effective smoke. Less larger facades please to see more detail | |
| 4 | 19 | Linda van Geene | 39-1 Selfie Image 39-2 Wadi Rum 39-3 Who’s There | Love the reflection and the effect it has for the 1st; well seen. Star wars-esque feel to the 2nd, with delightful colours. 3rd well composed, but light around the light (IYKWIM) looks slightly odd | |
| 4 | 19 | Rob Harley | 35-1 Nigella Aka Love In The Mist 35-2 Births And Deaths 35-3 Rachelle On A Rope | Nicely composed floral still life for 1st. Much to look at in the 2nd, but slightly bright, use of graduated filter? Elegant composition of the 3rd, with great lighting and direction, but perhaps border too bold? | |
| 7 | 18 | Peter Cotton | 30-1 Below Decking 30-2 Caught In The Act 30-3 Antlers | Perspective / viewpoint important in the 1st, with strong pattern effect, simple but effective. (Dare I say) a nice holiday snap in the 2nd; is the horizon horizontal? Creative modern art 3rd with antlers perhaps looking like figures dancing, with interesting colour palette | |
| 7 | 18 | Rob Harley | 03-1 Help 03-2 Morning Tranquility 03-3 Glass | Contrast add to drama in 1st. Good laying in 2nd. Odd down the centre in 3rd | |
| 7 | 18 | Rob Harley | 18-1 In Clear Sight 18-2 It’s A Fine Line 18-3 Saucy Postcard Anita | do not need out-of-focus birds in 1st, plus sky odd, but exposure well-held. Good idea for 2nd, but unfortunately not seeing heads does not help impact. 2rd creative, with good direction, but why Anita in title? | |
| 7 | 18 | James McCracken | 08-1 Dancer In Dreamland 08-2 Just Another Day At The Office 08-3 Autumn Tones Beyond An Olive Grove | Excellent 1st! Why take 2nd down to mono, and does the rain look realistic? Enjoy the fish eye-like effect of the 3rd | |
| 7 | 18 | Vicky Sinclair | 17-1 Follow Me 17-2 Crocus Impressions 17-3 Extinction Selfies | Great composition for the 1st, with hard stop on the RHS, pattern on LHS, lead lines to mysterious person. 2nd interesting creation, with single crocus poking through top layer, but suggest crop top and bottom. Photo journalism for 3rd is not ideal as would like to have seen protesters, also far building odd as it is not vertical | |
| 12 | 17 | John Humphrey | 32-1 Cuba Car 32-2 Geranium Seedhead 32-3 Moscow University | Car large in frame, with cropped-out bumper in 1st, but more context? Pen and ink text book style creative, with rule of odds. Creative use of post processing sympathetic to architectural style in 3rd | |
| 12 | 17 | John Marshall | 10-1 Hot Foot 10-2 Built On A Bend In The Danube 10-3 Spirit Of Ecstacy | Too bright in the 1st, with trainers blown-out background not dark enough. 2nd well seen, nicely shot, enjoying recession. 3rd elegant, with artistic interpretation of RR mascot (ignored typo) | |
| 12 | 17 | John Marshall | 23-1 Triangles 23-2 After Dinner Nap 23-3 Spear Thistle | Good direction for 1st, but mid-tones do not help emphasise 3d surfaces and curves. 2nd a challenging shot, a tad bright, presence of left hand important, koala doing what it does best for 18-22 hours a day 🙂 3rd distinctive style with background, deeper pink border? | |
| 12 | 17 | Linda van Geene | 25-1 Red Admiral Resting 25-2 The First Glimpse 25-3 Waiting For The Wheeltapper | Looking into space for 1st, sharp, but seems overly saturated (greens) and bright. Delightfully easing 2nd image, but rocks touching. 3rd bright, and mono treatment dominating | |
| 12 | 17 | Richard Anthony | 02-1 Loen Skylift 02-2 Geranium 02-3 Wheelchair | More of the valley in the 1st. Treatment stylistic in 2nd | |
| 12 | 17 | Ian Shaw | 06-1 Windermere From Waterhead 06-2 Blackheaded Gull 06-3 Waterdrops On Leaf | image of 2 halves for 1st, with sky slightly odd. Great panning in 2nd. Enjoyable abstract | |
| 12 | 17 | Vicky Sinclair | 12-1 Reeds And Stones 12-2 Nuthatch 12-3 Spanish Shapes | Crop top quarter and far right of 1st. 2nd unusual well done composition. Enjoy minimalism and textures of 3rd, but bottom Juliet balconies cut off | |
| 12 | 17 | Vicky Sinclair | 36-1 It’s My Future 36-2 Schleissheim In The Autumn 36-3 In The Daisies | Grumpy kid makes the 1st, not horizontal, but perhaps not important. 2nd has an enjoyable subtle painting effect. Contrast pumped in the 3rd, and light, probably to get interest in the feathers, but leads to bright distracting daisies and background. | |
| 12 | 17 | John Manning Smith | 11-1 Canary Wharf Statues 11-2 Kneeling 11-3 Beach Waves | Contrajour implementation a little too stark for 1st. Enjoy minimalistic and different 2nd. 3rd great capture with exposure well held. | |
| 21 | 16 | Brian Howard | 20-1 Horse Guards 20-2 West Wycomb Church 20-3 Cooling Off | Would love to see more detail in 1st, but soldiers and horses too small. 2nd representative image (with typo in title – I am a local). 3rd static image but well seen. | |
| 21 | 16 | Emyr Williams | 34-1 Just Look At The State Of The Country! 34-2 Just What Is She Getting Up To Now^Q 34-3 The Blind Busker | Shameless dropping of props in the countryside in the 1st, but top LH corner? 2nd has tight framing, DoF? 3rd well seen, appropriate to turn into mono. | |
| 21 | 16 | Linda van Geene | 14-1 The Old Bridge At Hereford 14-2 The Jordanian 14-3 Swan Spitting | Name suggests bridge, but cathedral dominates in 1st, with golden hour colours, but sharpening? 2nd punchy mono, with textures in face. Title helps 3rd, but bright including some feathers (but swans are white!) | |
| 21 | 16 | Peter Cotton | 07-1 Beach Patterns 07-2 The Apple Seller 07-3 Pillars Of Wisdom | Crop top of 1st to create a larger image for impact, also create more contrast for punch. Good light under hat in 2nd. Another pattern picture in 3rd perhaps. | |
| 21 | 16 | Peter Cotton | 26-1 No Parking 26-2 I Only Bought It On Sunday 26-3 Sun Patterns | Well seen 1st. Well seen 2nd, but could have waited for Nordic Walkers to have departed. Interesting pattens in 3rd, with appropriate limited colour palette | |
| 21 | 16 | Richard Anthony | 31-1 Dahlia With Bug 31-2 Across The Lake 31-3 Spot The Mekon | Had to search for bug in the 1st, with curls not helping the intrinsic beauty of flower. 2nd has layered approach of fore, mid, and background, with good DoF, but why mono? Orb images fun, with interesting donor image and colour palette | |
| 21 | 16 | Sue Case | 29-1 Underneath The Arches 29-2 Jurassic Spider Webs 29-3 A Wet Whippet | Interesting perspective in the 1st, with man and dog helping composition, but what are the the round things. Challenging exposure for the 2nd, but why Jurassic in the title. Why go to mono in the 3rd, with strange crop | |
| 21 | 16 | Ian Shaw | 16-1 Concert Hall, Valencia 16-2 Bee At Work 16-3 Beachscape At Polzeath | Great mono for 1st, with hall and viewer! 2nd has noise, plus too tight a crop, context, beauty! Horizon in 3rd sloping, sun has hard edges (soften), and foreground messy (suggest crop-out), plus do we need far RHS? | |
| 29 | 15 | Brian Howard | 13-1 Great Tit Through The Window 13-2 Roseanne 13-3 The Hibiscus And The Bee | Noise in 1st, plus talons look odd. 2nd great close-up. Bee obscured, cannot see what it is doing, and it is in shadow in 3rd | |
| 29 | 15 | John Marshall | 38-1 Love In A Mist 38-2 Fieldwork 38-3 Lone Gondola | Interesting stylised study for the 1st. Focus issue with 2nd past the model, mid shades dominate. Standard representation for the 3rd, with gondola moving into the image. | |
| 29 | 15 | Richard Anthony | 28-1 The Palladian Bridge, Stowe 28-2 Dew Covered Dandelion Seedhead 28-3 The London Show Choir In Concert | Slightly tilted 1st image, but mono and treatment make is look slightly unreal. 2nd good idea, especially to get in so close to see dew, but no single point of interest. Foreground in 3rd too dominating, with bright faces of choristers who are small in the frame | |
| 29 | 15 | Sue Case | 24-1 One Winters Morning 24-2 Rushing By 24-3 Prickly | Challenging environment for 1st, but do we need RHS? Main object blurred in 2nd, but more context / background? 3rd had strong diagonal, bright, with balance of tree in background. | |
| 29 | 15 | Hilary Moore | 19-1 Whose Turn Is It To Say Grace 19-2 Icy Trees 19-3 Surreal Hang Glider | Busy image, and do not get the title of 1st. Good interest on of reflection and ice in 2nd, but slightly soft. Interesting post-production in 3rd, but relying upon it too much. | |
| 34 | 14 | Brian Howard | 37-1 Sweetpea 37-2 Shewsbury High Street 37-3 Fagin | No single point of interest for the 1st, with distracting texture in background on the RHS. 2nd a representative shot of a high street, but shy blown-out. Jolly Fagin 3rd image with string flash has odd overly black background | |
| 34 | 14 | Emyr Williams | 01-1 Pylon In Blue 01-2 Feeling Rough 01-3 Dummy Art Study IV | Sky pixelated in 1st 🙁 Coat dominates 2nd 🙁 Treatment unusual in 3rd | |
| 34 | 14 | Emyr Williams | 21-1 She Can’T Wait To Wear It! 21-2 The Symmetry Of Cigarettes 21-3 The Church At Dawn | Good social comment in 1st, with good crop. Looks like repetition has been done in post-production in 2nd, but do not understand why. Intrusive halo around tower in 3rd | |
| 34 | 14 | Sue Case | 04-1 Three Friends 04-2 Fog And Foliage 04-3 Urban Fun | Marked down as no mono 🙁 ICM needs more interest. 2nd overly saturated. No single point of interest in 3rd, but woman looking sideways makes it | |
| 34 | 14 | Hilary Moore | 09-1 Daffodil Head 09-2 Grief Is Universal 09-3 Robin In Snow | Marked down as no mono 🙁 Petals too high key in the 1st. Grief is very raw in 2nd, with interactions important. Too much noise in 3rd | |
| 34 | 14 | Lai Chan | 15-1 A View From The Sculpture 15-2 White Beauty 15-3 May Fair Ladies | Great view well seen in 1st. Too extreme crop in 2nd, and overly bright. 3rd busy, overly saturated with Vaseline vignette |