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Re: Award Standards...



Allan Woods writes:

> There also seems to be a "50s" mind set among many judges.
>    
> I remember in Atlanta seeing a striking and extrememly interesting,
> well done, imaginative series of stereo pictures of an urban
> environment.  Creative photography and composition.
>    
> Unfortunately, the "buzz" from the audience indicated sneering and
> giggling - I assume because the slides were not of the American
> SouthWest.

Allan, I was there and I have a problem with your comments... Like most
of the audience, I felt that we saw all too many pictures of lampposts
street signs, buildings, monochromatic images, etc.  Creative photography
and composition?  I'll have to see the show again for a definitive 
response to this... but I do remember that it was too long and kinda
boring.  And most people in the room thought the same apparently...

Unlike most of the audience, you Allan enjoyed this "creative" show.
So what is the problem here?  Are we, the majority of stereo viewers,
left with a 50s mindset, craving for pictures of the American SouthWest,
or is it you Allan attracted to a boring and fake-creative form of 3d?

I don't know the answer to this question...  I only know that you are
one and we are many... 

I do not think I agree about the 50s mindset among judges.  Judges are
people like me and you. If you want to shape our views about good 3d,
why don't you try to be a judge?  I don't know about Oakland but in
Detroit anyone who walks off the street and pays $10 to join, can be
a judge for the night!

> I agree we need a tad more imagination in subject selection and
> treatment - and we also need more acceptance of different approaches.

Every PSA stereo competition today has a "contemporary" special award.
Don't you think that this encourages imagination and "alternative"
approaches?

> Perhaps a category for "assignment" might be to EXCLUDE photographs
> of the SouthWest, Flowers, etc.

Again, most assignments are such that exclude these subjects... My 
problem with flowers is that it is a safe subject that has little
challenge left to it and little room for creativity (there is little
left, like the x-rays of flowers, etc.)  I have not visited the
American Southwest yet.  If I ever do, I'll make sure that I take
plenty of 3d pictures... They sure beat Cleveland in snow!

George Themelis 


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