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BSoUP's Open Portfolio Competition 1989
Winner
- Mike Wong
by
Brian Pitkin
Reproduced
from in focus 35 (January
1990)
At
the December meeting of the Society we held our annual Open
Portfolio Competition. This competiton is open to any underwater
photographer, irrespective of whether he or she has won a
place in a major competition. Entries had to comprise six
35 mm slides taken anywhere in the world underwater, except
in a tank or aquarium. Images which had previously won a place
in a major competition were ineligible. The idea of this competition
is to see new and exciting images, not the same award winning
shots.
All
slides had to be mounted in Gepe glass mounts and spotted
in the bottom left hand corner when the slide is the right
way up and the right way round. All six slides in each of
the six portfolios received were projected simultaneously
with slide 1 - top left, slide 2 - top centre, slide 3 - top
right, slide 4 - bottom left, slide 5 - bottom centre, slide
6 - bottom right.
All
six portfolios received were projected three times and the
audience present invited to vote for their favourite three.
Third place with 45 points went to BENNY SUTTON. Second place
with 57 points went to LES KEMP. The winner with 79 points
was MIKE WONG. Mike was awarded a £50 prize.
The
first three portfolios included double compositions, whereas
the rest did not! Mike Wong confessed that he personally did
not like double compositions and only used them to win competitions.
He appealed to the Society to run competitions in which double
compositions were ineligible.
My
own view on this is that it would be difficult to ensure that
images were not double compositions. However, if entrants
were obliged to submit original slides rather than duplicates,
this would preclude the possibility of entering double compositions
produced in the dark room, although not in the camera. Alternatively
the Society could exclude double compositions from competitions
and trust entrants not to submit them, but surely the image
is important, not how it is produced- But you may disagree.
Let's have your views please. Editor
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