P3D entering stereo contests

[Lme Kbee <jet_lk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lawrence Kaufman wrote:
>With your talent (Jet 7), you could do very well in the >SCSC club
competitions, which only requires a >membership...you do not need to
actually come to >the meetings, even though, that is a lot of the fun
>(read: anxiety).
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Well, since you brought it up, lets talk about the value of entering
stereo contests.

I DON'T LIKE IT!

I shoot stereo for my own enjoyment, and for the enjoyment of friends
and strangers that I meet at parties (when I bring my slides).  I
consider many people at the SCSC to be my friends (including you LK). 
I just don't enjoy the judging, and I don't see why I should pay
people to tell me what they think of my slides.  Even when I have won,
it is usually with one of my least favorite entered slides.  I also
don't usually agree with the judges desicions of other people's
slides.  I was a judge once, and when I gave a low score almost always
the other judges gave a high score, and vice versa.

I am now obligated every thursday night, so I can't even make it to
the meetings, so I am sure not going to pay to enter my slides, not be
there, and just get back in the mail a bunch of opinions I don't agree
with.

My favorite part of the stereo club is talking with people, and
sharing slides in a viewer ( I don't like projected stereo slides even
half as much as in a viewer).  There just isn't much time to talk at
the meetings.

My images almost alway evoke an emotion (usually laughter) from the
audience, and I have actually heard one or two people "boo" the judges
when they get a mediocre score.  I think that when ever people judge,
they are out of touch with what people like, and often give a great
score to a boring "Postcard" style nature photo that is so far of in
the distance that it doesn't even have any 3-D feel to it.

I think that giving asignments (like at George's club) is a great idea.
And George, try shooting the shadow of something falling on a 3-D
object, the shadow will bend over it, and whalla there is 3-D!

Jet-7

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