The next question is what do you do with your photos, I don't know about you guys but I have tens of thousands of photos stored and backed up gathering dust, some are naff some are ok.
Thanks for your kind comments Illona,
Yes I do enter comps and have had some success BUT rarely put comp stuff on here.
As I have said before I am really using this site/thread as a showcase for a handfull of the thousands of rejects gathering dust on my various hardrives.
Many are decent, work in progress, ideas BUT not technically good enough for comps..................YET.
The Staiths/Whitby set are my first real attempt in that area and they show promise so I have analysed the mistakes and will go back and have another go, eventually I will get it right and put them in a comp.
I have to select 6 photos for an exhibition in August, I tend to do better in competitive exhibitions than straight comps.
Cos comp judges are all superb techy photographers and members of the Royal Society of Photographers, so they judge on the technical qualities of the photo rather than the aesthetic's.
In the competitive exhibitions where the public vote cos they like the piccy more then the techy aspects, I do better.