Last year I entered the National Trust photographic competition. I figured that I spent a fair amount of my time making images at NT properties, so I may as well give it a go.
The purpose of the contest is to find images for the cover of the handbook and for the membership card. The requirements for each of these are quite different, but they're both landscape format.
The theme for the contest was "space to explore" so I came up with a set of images with lots of - well, blank space, really. They were all taken at Stourhead during two separate visits, one in May and the other in August of 2018. On both occasions, the lake was very still and I made full use - or overuse, depending on your politics - of the reflections
At the time, I didn't post the images as I thought that copyright might become a problem if I won. In the event, I didn't win - I might have mentioned it at the time if I had - and I just forgot about them until I found them in a folder on my computer a few days ago and decided to post them anyway.
This first one is probably my favourite of the set. It meets the brief for the handbook cover - focal point to the right, people in the image. And, in my head, it interpreted the theme by including all that "empty" space in the lower half of the frame.
I like to horizontal symmetry in this image. There are people, as well.
This is another view of the same part of the path round the lake as in the previous image. I had high hopes that this might be a winning image, but I remember being concerned that the people were recognisable and that the model releases would become a problem.
The previous images were from the visit in May, this one and the next are from the August trip. The weather wasn't so good, which reduced the intensity of the colours. I was still going with the "space" theme. I still think that this one would have worked as the handbook cover, but there are no people in the shot.
This final image was my pitch for the membership card, which is credit card sized, with an image on one side and your membership details on the other. I think that this image would have worked at that size, although I like the detail of the people sitting below the Pantheon, and that probably would've been lost.
The purpose of the contest is to find images for the cover of the handbook and for the membership card. The requirements for each of these are quite different, but they're both landscape format.
The theme for the contest was "space to explore" so I came up with a set of images with lots of - well, blank space, really. They were all taken at Stourhead during two separate visits, one in May and the other in August of 2018. On both occasions, the lake was very still and I made full use - or overuse, depending on your politics - of the reflections
At the time, I didn't post the images as I thought that copyright might become a problem if I won. In the event, I didn't win - I might have mentioned it at the time if I had - and I just forgot about them until I found them in a folder on my computer a few days ago and decided to post them anyway.
This first one is probably my favourite of the set. It meets the brief for the handbook cover - focal point to the right, people in the image. And, in my head, it interpreted the theme by including all that "empty" space in the lower half of the frame.
I like to horizontal symmetry in this image. There are people, as well.
This is another view of the same part of the path round the lake as in the previous image. I had high hopes that this might be a winning image, but I remember being concerned that the people were recognisable and that the model releases would become a problem.
The previous images were from the visit in May, this one and the next are from the August trip. The weather wasn't so good, which reduced the intensity of the colours. I was still going with the "space" theme. I still think that this one would have worked as the handbook cover, but there are no people in the shot.
This final image was my pitch for the membership card, which is credit card sized, with an image on one side and your membership details on the other. I think that this image would have worked at that size, although I like the detail of the people sitting below the Pantheon, and that probably would've been lost.
