Sports/Action

1. Watch any four of the Runner-up videos, and answer the following on your blog:

Name of photographer - Justin Mott
General focus of portfolio - Cambodia
List three problems - Photos needed to be in focus, Some photos didn't have a story, Bad portfolio building
List two things the judges like- Had 6 or 7 strong pictures, It was unique
Overall impression - My overall impression of this portfolio was bad. I didn't understand what was going on in the pictures, none of them made sense to me, and I didn't see a story.

Name of photographer - Josh Birnbaum
General focus of portfolio -Wheelchair Basketball
List three problems - The story wheelchair story didn't have any emotional or graphic pictures, some pictures were not cropped right, first slide show had random pictures
List two things the judges like- 2nd wheelchair story with the basketball player on the ground,
Overall impression - Overall impression, horrible. Most of the pictures didn't make sense and the pictures were taken at the wrong moment. The first slide show in the portfolio was horrible. The pictures didn't have anything that made them pop or made them unique.

Name of photographer - Travis Haughton
General focus of portfolio - Deaf Child, Sports
List three problems -Some pictures needed to be more lose, pictures that had more detail didn't have good quality, some pictures weren't cropped very well an more of the frame needed to be shown.
List two things the judges like- They liked a few sports pictures and the very first picture of the little deaf boy had emotion.
Overall impression - It was good. I liked the photo story because it had good pictures and made sense.

Name of photographer -Nick Adams
General focus of portfolio - Photoj
List three problems - Too many children in the photos, Pictures didn't have stories, The captions of the photos were too long.
List two things the judges like- The judges liked the first two pictures.
Overall impression -I didn't like it. Most of the photos didn't have meaning. Only a couple photos had emotion in them.


2. Watch the winning portfolio critique (Dustin Snipes), and post the following:
What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?

• Nice color
• Nice composition
• The photographer was behind the people running in the 4th picture
• Shot at a wide angle
• there was a picture where every person in the photo was doing something
• they liked the picture of the baseball player catching the ball
• creative

I liked every single picture in Dustin's portfolio accept for the ones that were photo shopped. I really liked the photos that were at an angle and the ones that were up from above.


3. Watch the contest recap video.

When the judges were going through each portfolio they went very fast. They were all talking at the same time as if they were in a rush. They all agreed with each other and were on the same page. When they got to the best portfolio they all took their time to say what was so great about it and made it perfectly clear that, that portfolio was the best.

Part 2 

1) On part 3 I agree with the judges on the photo of the man and the horse. I think the photo is cool also. I like the lighting a lot.

2) On part 2 the judges liked the tennis photo. I didn't like it because it seemed very boring. I didn't like how her face wasn't showing. I think if her face was showing it would have been a better picture.