Photos of the Month Contest

SEPTEMBER Results for P.O.M

This Sept POM was judged by Hannah Yoon (a freelancer in Kitchener-Waterloo, while also working as a freelance photo editor for Maclean's) & Justin Chin (a full-time photo editor for Bloomberg in Hong Kong)

General comment: Biggest issue was not putting the right images in the right categories.

Please feel free to share my email to anyone if they wish to discuss any of their work further, not just limited to POM pix. Thanks and good luck to the rest of the year! -- Justin (justin@justinchin.ca)

FEATURE

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BELLEVILLE, Ont. (09/15/16) — Three boys cycle and take advantage of the long Canadian summer on Cedar St., Belleville. Photo by Noah Park.

Should be cropped into a horizontal, but love the silhouttes. Don’t need that much negative space

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FLINT, MI (18/09/2016) - A man sleeps in an alley in Flint, Michigan. An ambulance idles nearby as parademics keep an eye on the individual. Photo: Chris Donovan.

We liked the perspective of this

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KINGSTON (23/09/16) - "Fear the Deer!" shouted the cadets of 12 Squadron Frasier Flight as they raced to their next station at the Royal Military College obstacle course on Sept. 23, 2016. Only once they have completed the course are the first year cadets officially recognized as members of the college. Said Deputy Cadet Flight Leader Liam Mercer, "After four weeks of fairly grueling physical training, inspections, team building, obstacle training, etc., the obstacle course is the last test for the first years before they join the rest of the cadet wing. It's very important to them as well as the staff as we spend a lot of time training them for this." Photo by Vanessa Tignanelli

We can tell the photographer is trying something different and there’s potential in the image but it isn’t quite a strong enough photo. It needs to be framed better. It would have been a strong photo without the rails.

NEWS

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FLINT, MI (17/09/2016) - Tammy Brewer, 54, has to shower with a case of bottled water due to the Flint Water Crisis. The National Guard left Flint in September and the federal state of emergency was lifted despite conditions remaining the same. Some residents are able to attach water filters to their shower heads, but Brewer stopped paying her water bill and her was was shut off by the city. Photo by Chris Donovan.

There were very few entries in this category. I think students are confused or unsure what is a news photo. We only chose one because it is the only news photo. The rest of the images were feature images at an event. Taking photos at an event does not mean it is a news photo. News isn’t an event that happens every year. This is why these images should be features.

SPORTS

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BELLEVILLE, Ont. (09/17/16) — Tafari Cole of the St. Lawrence Vikings fights off Eric Mallory of the Loyalist Lancers during their first men’s rugby game of the season in which the Lancers suffered a defeat with the score 46-24. Photo by Noah Park.

expression and intensity of the players is great. Be careful with the focus tho. The focus is on the words on his shirt and not his eyes.

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BELLEVILLE, Ont. (09/17/16) — Victoria Pedro of Loyalist Women’s Rugby team flings off to the side as she tries to stop Hailey McLaren of St.Lawrence College Women’s Rugby team during Loyalist’s first game of the season. The game ended with a 84-0 defeat for Loyalist. Photo by Noah Park.

peak of the moment, action shot.

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BELLEVILLE, ONT. (18/09/16) — The Belleville Bulldogs under 16 womens rugby team during their intersquad prom dress game at Mary Ann Sills park in Belleville Ont. Photo by Yader Guzman.

Good action but needs more space to give the action context.

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BELLEVILLE, Ont. (09/28/16) — Ashely McDonald of Loyalist Women’s Soccer team dribbles a ball during a late afternoon practice at Mary Anne Sills Field, Belleville. Photo by Noah Park.

Good use of light, needs to be higher but can see s/he is trying. A different focal length could have helped as well. Try different spots.

PORTRAIT

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FLINT, MI (26/09/2016) - Lamont Jones was born in Los Angeles, but his mother moved to Flint to work in the shops. Most of his family worked for General Motors or Buick. “I would love to live in LA, but it’s so expensive to live there,” he said. Lamont worked for GM’s Fisher Boyd Plant for 30 years. When the plant was shut down, he transferred to a plant in Detroit but he hated it and quit soon after. He is now a jazz and funk musician. “Those plants dumped some seriously nasty shit into the river,” he said. “I’m sure that’s what made Flint's water so corrosive.” Photo: Chris Donovan.

beautiful light. love it

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PUSLINCH, Ont. (09/25/16) - Richard Thornett is a 27-year-old pianist from London, England. Thornett’s musical talents have taken him all around the world as he has played for multiple cruise ships, mainly in Asia. Thornett says, “As long as I can play, I’m happy really.” He believes in the escapism that music allows people to feel. Photo by Lori Christmas.

simple and clean portrait. We know who this person is.

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BELLEVILLE, Ont. (12/09/16) - At 16 years old, Evan Cliff was met with a desperate desire to express himself and ran away from home, finding shelter in abandoned buildings in Belleville’s surrounding forests. While living in Indiana in 2011 he experimented with drugs and became addicted to OxyContin and Oxycodone. After 2 years on the streets living in what he calls pure escapism, he returned home to face the responsibility of growing up on his own terms. He has since graduated both high school and college, and is currently nursing a talent for visual art and glass blowing. Photo by Vanessa Tignanelli.

this had a lot of potential. the light is great and he’s in the right spot. However, it should have either been a tight portrait of his face with some more expression or a wider shot of the whole space without cutting off his hands and legs

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