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Image Critique Awards

Susan, if you got the five categories I know we have cloud. There was international food, repetitive patterns, action. Self tell fortunes are really important. Carrie. What? You know, beautiful. We can't do that in l. A. Because we don't have dramatic close with dramatic smog. Come to Seattle with beautiful. This is what something different type of this is probably the international food. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, I see. Down shot. Not from the top. Wow. Eyes. Clever, repetitive pattern. I think I should have got inside there and took a better angle where these people live. Interesting how people can take something as just simple and chairs and give it such an interesting look. If you had out, like if you had a place in your basement, You know, you your husband who does is a Giants fan or something. I mean, what a great piece to hang on your wall. This is a great learning one for the class I did yesterday on lenses in perspective. See, at the front of the image looks, wide angle and the imag...

e in the back. Everything is compressed. It's all because of the camera subject distance. The same thing's happening within the same image. Uh, very clever. Interesting. But I have to do that on the photo work. Yeah, and action. What was it called? Self portrait. So what? Something. Something live. Okay. Wow, That's cool. Beautiful. They staged the wedding or is it actually happened during the juggler? So for dramatic clouds, the winners are Ahmed. What are Carly Collins and Misty Sprouse? Those are the three winners for dramatic clouds for international food, we have Guillermo Nazis. Ryan Hoover, Thomas Wonder Burger For repetitive patterns, We have Javier Air, Lucy's Ryan Hoover, Thomas Wonder Burger, Her self portrait. We have Ella Casca, Sachin Biyani and Sylvia Jimenez for Show us Something live A k a action image. We have Jeremy Shali, Rachel Eddington and Thomas Wonder Burger. So congratulations to all of our winners. Thank you so much for participating. I think it's united to create a such an international audience. And it looks like there's a lot of international names from all around the world. They're contributing honestly, See, when I look at this Oh my what am I gonna dio? Let's just go with it. You sounded like such an authority way in that one day with conviction. Absolutely. I feel like the most important part of critiquing on Creativelive is that we teach a lot. You watch a lot and for the instructors in the audience. For as for sitting up here, we're talking to a group of usually six students in three cameras, and we know that there's a big audience out there engaged in listening. And this is your opportunity to be accountable for what we're teaching you to show us your work to contribute back to creative life insurance while you're doing. And it's been such a mind blowing day. So we sat down with the categories that were delivered to us. We chose images that we could critique with, and we're all just really, really blown away with what we've seen today. So thank you big, thank you to everybody. And we've got some winners. Turnout we do. I just wanted to say that two of our former creative live studio audience attendees Irene Labor and Tyler Babin, both we're part of that. I would like to know who is gonna win this Canon five D mark three. Given to us by Adirama. That's what I want to know. Well, fish have got other prizes to give way. Have to announce the winning category. So, um, do you want to do the wedding category? Sure. Now, is this the Did they get all of that? I believe Yes, They only cow. That's great. Okay, well, the person taking home do I need to tell what they are? Okay. The person who's getting arctic. A tour gift certificate. A black river imaging certificate towards folio collection lens pro to go. Gift certificate. Shoot dot Edit don't. Credits totaling $350 goes to Aaron Wallace. Okay. The second place winner gets a lens. Protego gift certificate. A triple scoop music signature collection by Roberto Valenzuela. Ah, West Cod Wrapped escape via Westcott. Rapid Box 26 Octo valued at $719. Okay, get prepared. Second place goes to Ray Sigh, Theo, and the winner is Oh, yeah, Happy with first place. First place goes Teoh, and they received lens Protego gift certificate. Ah, simply color gift certificate. A total of $ goes to congratulations. Leah Peterson. All right. The winner of the at around my gift certificate. Black River imaging certificate towards fully old collection. Wescott Scrim Gym Kit. A total value of $370 goes to third place. Brian Non Buhler Descend second place Adirama gift certificate, blurb gift certificate, triple scoop music signature collection. Lindsay Adler Total value of $574 goes to lighting. Second place. Gretchen Hansen Theo I love that lighting First place. Westcott Skylights L E D. Light with 36 inch rapid box total value. 15 59 Goes to Angelique Cook. Okay, I'm gonna do commercial. So here for a second place the Lens Protego Gift certificate. Triple scoop Music Signature collection from Jim Garner and a Westcott nine foot by 10 foot high key White backdrop. Total value. $645.75 and that commercial. Second place goes to Gabi Mattey commercial. Third place at around a gift certificate. Black River Imaging gift certificate. Shoot dot edit dot Credits the West Cut Pocket Box kit value of $ 3rd place goes toe. Irene Liebler on winning a Sony Action cam, a think tank, photo, Airport foresight, triple scoop music signature collection of Bambi, Cantrell Music, Westcott, Apollo or speed. Like it using on Theo Thing. Total value of 10 What? 10. 97. $1097. 75 cents. I'm thrown off 10. 97 with my first address when I was a kid. First place goes to Katherine Al Grey. Theme fighting portrait. Third place at around a gift certificate. A Black River image certificate towards a folio collection. A shoot dot it dot credits Think tank Photo retrospective seven. Total value. $462.75 Portrait. Third place is Tyler Babin Inamoto Pro one year account. Wow! Think Tank Photo City Walker 20 Triple Scoop Music Signature Collection against Son by members Total Value. $792 in 75 portrait. Second place is Sarah Lope in Beautiful 30 Idiot six Camera Triple Scoop Music Signature Collection by Jim Gone. A total value of $1148.95. Portrait First place is Barrett, Theo Ways Images. Now the excitement really start huge people that wanted a lot prizes. Those sponsors Ah, so incredible and a big part of that industry. And we're gonna now judge live the Champion Print champion. Print is going to win a five D mark three. It might get a bit Jerry Springer in here. Okay. You gonna let us do this? Sure. What? I can just give a camera a rama way, keep them and let them know. All right. All right. I've been privy to judging at a national level and in a few countries in one of the cool things that we get to do is you get to see what's normally behind closed doors. We have chosen a win is, and now the four of us are going to choose a champion print. I went out and we going to do it in front of you. So you get to hear our argument discussion? What's the first to go and who our winner is? So, um, you ready? Yeah. Yeah, I winter. You got your way? Look at them all. I say that I'm making your choice for you. Way got this covered. Okay, but you're gonna choose the one that I picked anyway. You know, I got good taste. Well, yeah, I think what we need to do is go one by one through the judges, and I need you to have a quick conversation about what you're putting up fist and why. And then we need to eliminate that doesn't make that first round. And then we need to duke it out for who's gonna win and who's who takes his side. I'm partial to the corners. The wedding one and the girl, Yeah. Oh, sorry, it's getting late and the girl on the bottom. But I think my heart and my and my soul tells me the girl on the bottom one that I like in this when I look at all four of these images, what I try to determine in my mind is which one of them is innovative, not only beautifully executed, but I haven't seen before. It's something that's inspirational that gets people excited. And that is, um, that you could hang in your home is a piece of art. There is in my mind there's only one. And that's the little girl on the bottom. Well, let textually um, where I'm going, we're not going to get very Jerry Springer. I love everything there. I think everything there is with the of the camera on every author. The areas where the of the first place Eckel aid and it's beautiful work and it's connected and it's beautiful. I'm instantly going to the right hand side for connection. But my love and everything goes down to the right hand side. So it's three. I can't. Even if I voted for something else, it's still gonna be 3 to 1. But I am drawn to that. I wasn't here for that section this morning, but I just love her expression. It's really it's like, this is your kid. I'm tired of doing this and, you know, and you got it there. You captured it. Um, and I'm gonna go with that one too. Image. The thing that makes that stand out from the rest, in my opinion, is the fact when you look at when we're judging photographs, you start from you start taking points off for, you know, for small imperfections or things that could have been done better. And when I look at that image, it clouds my mind. And I can't think of anything but amazing positive things. I mean, the lighting was beautifully executed. The tone ality the way that they interpreted that moment to take it from being just a portrait on a simple background to moving it into the fine art world was really quite sensitive and brilliant. What can we way used to Sony Camera on this e like Matisse and Monet? Did they fight over what it is used? Of course not, I think. For me, um, it's beautifully executed. I love the tone and the feel of the skin and the post processing, and that just that little wispy hair gives it some movement. But I get emotional on it because I have girls like that age. And so whenever I see imagery like that, it's just kind of my heart gets me. So you know? And I was thinking it was from all the baggage that you carried a. That's another segment. I feel like when I look at this image, I stopped thinking It's a photograph and I start looking at this image of this young girl to May it. She's pre tain. She's so make 9%. He's got a whole life ahead of hair. It's a mixture of struggle. I'm not a kid anymore. I'm not yet a woman so beautiful, I think completely deserved to be champion print. I can't believe it was, You know, I said in the rain for an hour and 1/2 and watch people do this, and I've never seen it so easy. I think we've got a winner. I was really hoping for some more bloodshed, Something else to judge. I think that could be arranged. Arranged that, well, Do we have any comments from our studio audience or what? They thought some of their opinions of what they thought the champion print should be in the back row. I'll go. I'm making five. That that image to me is just so beautiful. I'm really a sucker for a kind of that almost like really soft kind of interview feel. And that's that's something that I really love and photography. And I just think that, like if it weren't for those wispy hairs, it wouldn't I would love it the way I do. But that movement and the story that it tells, really Um, yeah, it's beautiful. Anyone else go right ahead. I think it also speaks to how you crop. An image is a lot about how you look at it. It doesn't need anything else. It doesn't need to be in a different aspect ratio or anything. It's the hair, and everything is just beautiful. How it's all focused on her, and you don't need to see the rest of her outfit or anything else. It's the stories all right there. But that's why people could all four images, the images on the left center beautifully, the image on the right. He's far to the right, which shows the darkness of the room that he's sitting in. And then the girl is cropped in the square, and the lowest inter with the hit brightness into every one of those images right down to the last detail have been cropped, finished to perfection. And that's why they've all won because they've bean right to the very finish they've crossed in, ticked a lot of box and interesting. They break rules to She's centered. You know how many times we told you Don't But you know, sometimes knowing the rules and knowing when to break them. You know what? Why that works, though, is even though she centered in the picture, do you notice how the energy flows from the top left corner to the right and down to the bottom? Right, so you can still draw that line from the left corner down to the bottom, and it's because of the way that her head is tilted the way that her eyes are cast down. I think if she was looking at the camera or something, it would. It would go from 100 to being oh, it would kill the mood, Such a hell of that image to me. I got goose bumps when I saw it, and I love how the hair coming up gives a sense of movement. But she's so still. And so there's what God had commented on very early on with the guy being thrown up, how you got something very static New York contrast with movement. You sort of get that in this image that I feel gives it so much life, like she could just pop right out of it in some way. You know what every one of those images, not only in the way that they were cropped and finished the winning couple a really kissing the guy with the chicken is really looking at that chicken in the most hilarious way. So did Penn. You could read so you could play caption contest with that and have fun with it for years. The guy in the top right is so 60 and engaging and dark and haunting and beautiful all at the same time. And that little girl, Yeah, on the little girl is so still that you have to admit, as an portrait maker that every one of those images has a feeling to it that moves you beyond, you know, then beyond a picture. And all of them hold a space, which is very, very beautif. All right, well, thank you to our worldwide audience for submitting all the images that you've submitted. And congratulations to our winner. The winner is Barrett. Ah, really amazing week here. And I want to thank the folks that creative life, especially for myself, bringing me in from being the photo assistant here to doing a couple of classes and putting their trust in me. And I think all the less here have been really affected by the folks that creativelive over the past couple of years. I really like to thank everyone else. There's Arlene still in the room. Oh, you get over here. Yeah. Hey, it's amazing. The fact that that they invite you all to come in and sit for three days, you know, for classes. What if I live in Seattle? I'm not kidding you. This could be your second home. You know what an amazing this is a PhD in photography that you guys were getting in for those on the Internet. What an amazing education. This summer, I had the opportunity Teoh to judge portfolios at Hallmark. And it's a very prestigious photo school. Nine months of education in this school is like $70,000 for nine months. Folks think about that. The amount of valuable, known, invaluable education you're getting through this organization for free. Uh, I hope that you appreciated those of you online. And don't take it for granted, because it really is a very special thing.