The Digital Photography Show #76: Chris Orwig Judges Our Most Recent Photo Contest
The Digital Photography Show #76: Chris Orwig Judges Our Most Recent Photo Contest (46Mb, 65 mins)
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December 2, 2007: Welcome to the seventy-sixth episode of The Digital Photography Show!
On today’s show, photographer, Photoshop master and master instructor Chris Orwig joins us as we judge our most recent photo contest. Hearing an expert like Chris critique a picture can really help you improve both your photography and photo-processing skills.
Chris has some online training at Lynda.com and you should also check out his new book Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: Video Training Book, for more great video tutorials.
An entertaining and enlightening way to listen to today’s show is at your computer, looking at the finalists as we discuss them. You can find them here.
Every one of these photos is a winner, but only one can take first place, along with the Wacom Bamboo Fun Medium that comes along with it.
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Thanks, Wacom, and congratulations to all of our finalists and, of course, to our winner…you’ll have to listen to find out who he or she is.
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We’d love to hear what you thought of the show either here on the blog or at TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.
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Thanks for joining us here and hope you enjoy this week’s show – especially my guest co-host!
Scott
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Thank you very much for the nice comments about my
photo. Even though I didn’t win it was an honor to
have you guys and Chris, who is one of my gurus,
ponder and analyze it.
You had several questions about the performer, his
gaze and what it is exactly that he was doing. The
whole performance was about a prince (the man in the
photo) and his princess, who you can see here:
http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p695324777/?photo=h18842DB7#411315639
The princess was kidnapped by…errr…someone (this
wasn’t entirely clear to me, since I was so busy taking
pictures I didn’t really concentrate on what they were
saying and doing). The picture of the prince was taken
after he slew the Bad Guy and stood over his body with
that “stay away from my woman” look on his face. In his
left hand he is holding the spear he killed the Bad Guy
with. The flare was lit as a warning to others who may
be thinking that they too would like a crack at the
princess (and who could blame them).
Thank you again for appreciating the photo enough to
make it a finalist in your contest and congratulations
to the winner.
All the best,
Bernard
December 4th, 2007 at 12:16 am
With such an incredible collection of photos, I was blown away to be in the finals. I never thought I would win, but I was so honored to be there.
And, yes, Scott. You nailed it. I wrote “SnapArt” on the photo to show my fellow DPS listeners what it can do. I deserve no credit. AlienSkin was the finalist, not me.
Bravo to the winner. The photo takes my breath away every time I look at it.
I must say, Phil Lu’s shot also stopped my breathing; it is one of the most beautiful B&W shots I have ever seen. Phil’s shot looks like the trumpeter just finished playing with a “creative hand” and is taking a quiet moment to contemplate the music. I thought it satisfied the contest theme for sure. Tough to pick a winner here.
I better quit looking at the photos. It is a health risk!
December 5th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Congratulations to all the finalists…and congratulations to Lawrence for winning.
I agree with Landya…Phil Lu’s photos were breathtaking.
Thanks to Chris Orwig for his very educational comments about all the finalists.
And thanks to Scott and Michael for another wonderful podcast.
December 8th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Thanks for the link in the show notes to the Phanfare page to see the contest pics. In the future please use flickr where all your fans are. It’s done on flickr all the time it’s easy and accessable to everyone. That’s a good thing right? I don’t want to jump through hoops to see the pics if you’re not going to add it in the show notes Scott.
I believe Sasha passed the audition – Scott your out. It’s the Sasha and Michael Stein Digital Photography Show. “Sasha, hold the mic closer to your mouth!”
Your Freind
December 8th, 2007 at 7:58 am
GREAT shots! Congratulations to the winner and the rest of the contestants. It’s great to hear comments from a pro like Chris, but you guys are really knowledgeable with your comments too.
I’m a new listener and like many others have been doing catch up with your earlier shows. I’m now through all of them, which literally took me day and night since I joined late November. very interesting discussions among the two of you, really good interviews with a variety of industry hot shots. I’m looking forward to your next 76 shows.
Keep up the good work guys!
December 8th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Found the link. Apologies Apologies Apologies Still prefer flickr though.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Great show guys and congrats to the winner of this contest, I don’t admire the job you guys have picking a winner, but I really do appreciate the beautiful shots in the contest. I also wanted to state I recently finished listening all 76 episodes and really enjoyed the show, I really find the critiques and analysis you guys give on these contests are both helpful and informative. Thanks for the great show and keep up the great work. I also joined the flickr group, and I must say there are some really talented individuals in the group, I recommend everyone should check it out. Regards.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:56 am
This was my first critique episode – I am a new listener and trying to catch up on all of the shows. I really like that you give honest pluses and minuses to each of the finalists – what a great way to improve photography. Congrats to the finalists and to the winner!