Three long-standing judges of Pink Woman® Meals Photographer of the Yr share their private ideas on what makes a picture actually stand out for them:
Nik Sharma, Cookbook writer, Photographer, Columnist at San Francisco Chronicle, Meals Author at Severe Eats
“I am searching for images that instantly seize my consideration and make me suppose or rethink the best way I used to view a topic.
They may problem my opinions on a subject or assist me see it in another way.
The images that I discover are the strongest are those that hone in and persist with sharing their standpoint with out getting slowed down by any distractions.”
Francis Hodgson, Professor within the Tradition of Pictures, College of Brighton
“Photographers are communicators. They could generally talk on another person’s behalf; generally on their very own behalf. Solely in actually uncommon – distinctive – circumstances is a type of scientific neutrality what’s required, and in these uncommon circumstances, what the photographer thinks or feels could also be irrelevant. The remainder of the time, 99% of the time, a photographer must have one thing to say in addition to the equipment, the data, the effectivity and so forth. There are far too many images on the earth, actually too many for these with nothing to say to have any name on our time. That turns into essentially the most salutary enhancing assist that photographers can discover.”
“Does this image actually say what I hope it says? And if it does, is it value saying? Usually, the true reply to these is No. After which I come again to the robust steering that I discover within the outdated quote attributed to Mark Twain : “You probably have nothing to say, say nothing.””
Rein Skullerud, Head, Pictures Unit, World Meals Programme
“After I choose a photograph I take into account a mixture of parts that vary from emotional to technical. Previously, I’d put extra weight into the emotional side, but these days with 5 billion images taken day by day it’s more and more essential for photographers to develop a private fashion each within the strategy to the narrative (story) in addition to the publish processing method, this may allow their images to emerge.
Principally the mixture of parts I take a look at at present are Emotion, Narrative and Dry Lab Approach.”
