PhotoJ - Portfolio Analysis

1. 
a. Name of photographer - Daryl Peveto
b. General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.) - sports/action, trip to Peru/Mexico, old people in sports
c. List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - "good commercial photos for medical companies"; "the captions are killing me […] I don't need that many words"; they didn't really talk about the problems, they just skipped the pictures they didn't like
d. List two things the judges like - "nicely lite"; "nice balance of color"
e. What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like? I actually really liked the pictures because they were different in my opinion. I think the photographer really experimented with the angles where he shot from and I really liked that.

2.
a. Name of photographer - Nick Adam
b. General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.) - people, sports
c. List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - "out of focus" ; "too tight, cut out his head to much" ; "if you have to read the caption of a picture to figure out what's going on, this is not working"
d. List two things the judges like - "it takes a strong person to take that picture and a even stronger person to pose for a picture like that, credit all around" ; "framed"
e. What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like? I liked it but I would say for only one story, the pictures were just too different.


3.
a. Name of photographer - Melissa Goldenb. General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.) - people
c. List three problems that the judges noted with the portfolio - "the most important part is out of focus"; "way too much going on"; "more than you want to know"
d. List two things the judges like - "very nice portrait […] you got everything you need to know in this picute"; "that's nice"
e. What is your overall impression of the photographer? What did you like or not like? I didn't really like the pictures, because they were kind of boring just like the judges said. They weren't anything special.

4. Winner - Dustin Snipes
a. What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it? composition, angles the pictures were taken of, the moments
b. What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses? I agree with all the strengths the judges already mentioned I also like the way he cut most of his pictures and framed those "moments". I think that photographer has a great eye for great pictures and I don't really see any weaknesses with his pictures.

5. Contest Recap
a. Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner - They looked through the portfolios of the ones they liked again but in a general view of the stories and put out the ones who had one or more pictures in them the judges didn't like.

6. 
a. The judges didn't like the picture in Part 2: No Pro / No college, because it just has too much going on and you don't really know what to focus on and I totally agree with that.
b. The judges really like the picture with the girl and the goose in Part 5: Best Student Image, but I can't understand why because I think the composition is not really good and I think it was cut too much and that it would look way better if you would see more from the girl and the goose.