As well as writing his judge's commentaries on the winning entries in the recent Landscape Competition, judge Duncan MacArthur has been burning the midnight oil to provide us with a unique insight into how we might improve our photography. How we might acheive that elusive winning shot.
We asked Duncan at the beginning of the last Landscape and Wildlife Competitions if he would help us pilot a 'Clinic' where for a selection those entries whose owners agreed, he would write some critiques. The idea is to show where improvements might be made in framing, focus, sharpness or content to more closely fulfil the brief of the competition. The process - like the judging - remains as anonymous as we can make it.
We are really excited with the results and are sure you will find them to be a useful source of reference material for future Competition entries. Duncan's critiques from the Landscape Competition are available collected together here on a series of 11 pages. A similar collection will be available at the end of the current Wildlife Competition.
We'd love to hear from you on our Facebook page or by email whether you think this is a useful service. We hope you will join us in thanking Duncan for the care and effort he puts into making better photographers of us all !
We regret that neither I SHOT IT, nor Duncan MacArthur can enter into discussions about an individual critique.