Sports Ananlysis

1. Alyssa Schukar
2. Stories
3. - needed more distance or zoom/all same distance
-too negative theme without enough substance
- themes to common and overdone
4. -Haiti photos had interesting color background
- fallen girl was real and not posed with good choice of competitors legs passing
5. I didn't like the photographer because all pictures were very all over the place without a common theme and were no zoomed enough and too posed and fake.

1. Jordan Murph
2. Sports
3. -expand on rule of thirds: don't repeat techniques: too 'postcard'
- no surfer in surfing picture along with photos that were unnecessary or don't belong
- as the portfolio continued, it started going downhill and didn't remain consistent
4. -great lighting composition
-good work with color and graphics
5. I liked this photographer. I think they did a great job of capturing the victories and downfalls of sports while for the most part maintaining a steady light composition and interesting content.

1. Justin Mott
2. Stories
3. -have a better focused subject of photos
-some confusing and irrelevant pictures
-needs a better selective story focus
4. -shocking and different stories that make you stare and almost disturb you
-good color and graphic work

A. The strengths of the winner that the judges liked were how the portfolio was put together nicely with no blanks, no weak photos, and a consistent technical and creative process. In all the pictures, the subjects had clear reactions or actions, the photographer was so close in the process, he seemed like one of the players in the game or activity, and included interesting shapes that were interesting to the eye.
B. What I liked about the photographer was that it had a very innovative point of view where pictures were taken from aerial or underneath, and gave you a new fresh insight to the same sport of action other photographers continually capture. The photos have a good emotion that is self explanatory and obvious, and the photographer had good editing skills that added to the photo's integrity, and didn't subtract from it.
C. Narrowing down to the winner came with being very harsh on projects they had originally loved. All judges had to observe each photo individually, as well as a portfolio as a whole, and consider it from there.

1. I agree with the judges on the photo with the badminton player, and having the 'ball' suspended over his eye. It has an incredible point of view and viewpoint, and the green background of the tennis court is a solid and non distracting background to the picture.
2. I disagree with the judges on the picture of the baseball stands with the man selling cotton candy. It was entered in the 'No Ball' category and I think it captures the excitement and classic experiencing of being in the stands instead of just being on the field. It used leading lines with the bleachers, as well as color and graphics with the cotton candy, and a viewpoint, when you can't see the man's head, but the cotton candy.