First I must say that the third place winner in the Black on B&W challenge is outstanding, so I do not mean to pick on it, but isn't it a litteral representation of an existing art? It's a metal sculpture!
The jury DQ'ed an image of a black board with some chicken scratch on it... Which by no means is an artwork, yet, a stright shot of a sculpture gets a ribbon. I understand the photographer shot it from an interesting angle, but it is still an artwork, isn't it? He didn't create the sky, it was there. It's pretty much as litteral as it gets.
Where is the line? How do I know that by shooting some architectural beauty will not get DQs...
I just want to understand. It's really buggying me.
Sculptures are 3 dimensional in which light can effect how they are photographed. Flat art like paintings, etc are not allowed if it looks like it was photocopied.
Lucky for me, I'd read the tutorial scalvert wrote, so I had that in mind when I wrote this comment for that shot:
This is a great example of how a 2-D photo of a 3-D artwork can show the photographer's touch through framing, choice of lighting (even if it's a time of day to put the sun in the right spot), and choice of background (heavy, roiling clouds as opposed to a blue sky).
Does that help you understand why this isn't just a literal representation?
wait ... I want to pick this image some more … how much color adjustment was used to make this thing black and white? I've seen this thing before and "gray day" might not be enough to make it black and white / gray.
Let's see the original !!!!
