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The Spike or Victoria College Review 1940

Judgments Photography

Judgments Photography

Looking at the Photographs generally, one is impressed by two things. Firstly, the careful planning, excellent ideas, and good composition. Secondly the poor technical quality.

The first place is given to Morning Paper (G. A. Eiby), which in spite of poor technique is still a most attractive picture. Good viewpoint, pleasing arrangement and design, repetition, and rhythm all help an excellent composition. This picture suffers from overexposure and camera movement.

2.V.U.C. (B. Given), an architectural subject—a nice rich print, with good rendering of texture. Technique very good, but lacks imagination from a pictorial point of view.
3.Shadows (J. Marwick). This picture again is overexposed, but the diagonal composition is interesting, and the artist's idea of the spear-like shadows across the grave is very commendable.
4.When Lowering Cloud-bank, etc. .(S. Whitlock) Very nice pictorial poem, unfortunately marred by camera movement rather too obvious.
5.Autumn Morning (B. Given). Quite a pleasing scene with a nice play of light on the water in the middle foreground. The composition is poor in as much as the eye jumps from the light patches surrounded by dark in the immediate foreground, to the dark patches (boats) surrounded by light in the distance, this has an irritating effect. Otherwise quite nicely composed.
6.Summer Skies (G. A. Eiby). Pleasing picture marred by camera movement and lack of detail in the foreground.
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