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Post by kate on Sept 16, 2023 18:43:13 GMT
The results are through. Rather like Taylor Wessing. I can't remember the judges, but I heard one pontificating on the radio and it was pretty predictable. He disliked posed portraits, he disliked careful lighting, he disliked predictable subjects. He liked all the rules to be broken. Now, I'm all for originality. but I reckon the title of the competition should be changed to reflect expectations. Life in the raw perhaps? www.scottishartstrust.org/results-spa |
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Post by spinno on Sept 16, 2023 18:49:24 GMT
Just change the name to McTaylor McWessing and cut the crap?
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Post by zx9 on Sept 16, 2023 19:02:26 GMT
The results are through. Rather like Taylor Wessing. I can't remember the judges, but I heard one pontificating on the radio and it was pretty predictable. He disliked posed portraits, he disliked careful lighting, he disliked predictable subjects. He liked all the rules to be broken. Now, I'm all for originality. but I reckon the title of the competition should be changed to reflect expectations. Life in the raw perhaps? www.scottishartstrust.org/results-spaThey weren't too bad, I like informal or environmental portraiture and would say with the exception of the lads in the bus shelter the studio portrait was the least good. |
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Post by kate on Sept 16, 2023 19:16:22 GMT
The results are through. Rather like Taylor Wessing. I can't remember the judges, but I heard one pontificating on the radio and it was pretty predictable. He disliked posed portraits, he disliked careful lighting, he disliked predictable subjects. He liked all the rules to be broken. Now, I'm all for originality. but I reckon the title of the competition should be changed to reflect expectations. Life in the raw perhaps? www.scottishartstrust.org/results-spaThey weren't too bad, I like informal or environmental portraiture and would say with the exception of the lads in the bus shelter the studio portrait was the least good. The studio portrait? Do you mean the b&w winner? Or the woman in profile? |
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Post by zx9 on Sept 16, 2023 19:39:54 GMT
They weren't too bad, I like informal or environmental portraiture and would say with the exception of the lads in the bus shelter the studio portrait was the least good. The studio portrait? Do you mean the b&w winner? Or the woman in profile? The lighting on the woman's profile (3rd Prize?) looks like too many lights from the wrong directions especially the spot / snoot on the wrinkled background. The Artist (1st prize) is very simple technique and lighting ( if it is his studio it will be a big window ) , for me it says a lot about him, his poacher jacket, hair, the tartan on his lap and the pictures he is working on. I like that one a lot for what it says about him.
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Post by Chester PB on Sept 16, 2023 20:06:58 GMT
As AP likes to say to avoid expressing any clear opinion, 'It's a broad church'.
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Post by zou on Sept 16, 2023 21:00:25 GMT
I quite appreciated that selection, better than the usual ex-BP portrait prize the NPG ran.
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Post by JohnY on Sept 24, 2023 15:53:16 GMT
A few days ago I received the latest copy of BJP the Spatial Awareness issue. I reckon that the exhibits shown in this link to the Scottish Portrait exhibition beat anything from 194 pages of BJP.
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