The 2009/10 competition season in Dublin Camera Club starts tonight with the submissions for the summer competition, which will be judged over the next three weeks. I’ve been promoted a grade, having won my grade last year in both colour and monochrome, so I expect to be really challenged this year, which is something I am looking forward to.
Once again my aim is to enter as many prints and digital images as I am eligible to for each competition, so tonight I am submitting 6 colour prints, 6 monochrome prints and 6 digital JPEGs for judging. The next three weeks will tell how well equipped those shots will be to compete in the winter league which starts in October.
A shot that didn’t make the cut when I was shortlisting images last night is this one of Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Turin. I took it on a flying visit to Turin in the winter of 2008, en route to Sauze D’oulx for a skiing trip. We rented a car at the airport and, having just about managed to squeeze all our luggage in, headed for the ski resort via Turin where we stopped off for some lunch. Within an hour we were on our way again, and that is all I saw of the city. That hour was time enough to grab this photo of the impressive plaza near where we ended up eating.
This is the type of shot I might well have entered to competition last year, but having experienced a few club competitions since, I suspect, while it is well exposed and reasonably well composed, it is not what is regarded as a “competition shot”. I’m still coming to grips with what exactly that term means, but it is one you hear over and over in the camera club. I think in the context of this photograph, were it to have an atmospheric sky, or to form the backdrop to a portrait for instance, it might have some potential as one.
As it is though, it’s probably lacking that extra element that takes it to the level where it would compete against other photographs in a judging session, but I still like it enough to post it here.
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