Hi All,

Another week over in no time and another week of excellent submissions from you all. Thanks to everyone for participating in this week’s photo competition. Thank you to all who submitted photographs and for those watching and supporting other photographers. I hope that you find this photography competition entertaining and useful as a learning tool to improve your photography even during lockdown. I spend a considerable amount of time going through these images to construct positive and constructive criticism to help me and you become a better photographer and I hope you all are taking the time to review everyone’s picture and learn from them.

I was hoping that last week’s theme might drum up more submissions as it is a broader subject and was allowing more people to participate, but it seems to have done the opposite.

My aim was to help you kick in the high gear and shoot whatever you wanted. If it was composed within the rules of thirds you were good to go and everyone’s submissions this week were well within the rules of thirds and got the green point towards the subject.

Congratulations to all for learning the rules of thirds and following it. I hope this exercise will help you become a better photographer and apply it in your day to day practice.

I know when I started photography, I mostly took everything straight on. I never tried to position items on the side or looked for paths, curves, or leading lines. Subject of composition is a broad & complex subject, and I do not think anyone can ever say that one rule, is the rule that everyone should use.

Rules are made to be broken, rules of thirds can be broken and ignored, if you maintain a balance in your image.

When I refer to balance, it means that when you are composing your picture, your subject stands out like a nail on a board. It must be composed to give the subject clear definition and surrounding objects must complement the subject and not distract from it. Or in some cases, the subject is what leads to other interesting objects within the subject and creates a story.

As per previous competition, I have divided all submissions into Tier 1, 2 and 3. Tier 1 represents the best photographic submissions followed by Tier 2 and 3.

This week I had to add in Tier 4 unfortunately as some submissions did not meet the date guidelines. Tier 4 represents submissions I deem worthy of posting; however, they will not take the top spot or be featured.

On a little side note to ensure we are clear. If you are viewing these photos on your mobile phone, the description of each image and the artists name is underneath each image.

If you are on an iPad or PC, description is either left or right of the image.

As usual, always remember, that these photo submissions are my opinion, that does not necessarily make my judgment & critique right or wrong. I simply judge them based on the rules outlined in the rules of the competition.

Hopefully, some feedback will help you learn something new and make you excel in your future photography.

Without further delays, enjoy these beautiful photos and people at its best.

Winning Submission & Tier 1 Entry

Congratulations to Sainath Bavugi for winning this week’s competition with this beautiful portrait.

Tier 2 - Rules of Thirds

Closely followed by Tier 2 Submissions.

Tier 3

Followed by the last Tier in our photo competition. Thanks so much for participating.

Tier 4

According to the image metadata the images below were not taken in May 2020.
As I like these images and I think they are worth sharing. I am including them in the disqualified section.

Thank you all so much for participating. It’s great so see such enthusiasm.

Regards
Evan