Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Jujitsu License Plate

Here are the five finalists .... Hard work in the jury





Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Hang In There By Maxine Cartoon




Hello and thanks to all participants! It is certainly not easy to select 20 images over 600 photos, so I tried to find a rational choice to organize.
In the first instance I have seen all the pictures without too much pause to choose a general idea of \u200b\u200bwhat kind of product.
After one day I repeated the operation, scartando le fotografie che mi convincevano meno. Quindi attraverso un criterio forse un pò empirico basato sull'eliminazione delle immagini a mio avviso meno interessanti, ho ridotto il numero a circa 400 foto.
Dopo questa prima selezione ho diviso le immagini in 5 grandi gruppi: foto con soggetti riflessi, foto con dettaglio astratto, immagini con movimento, immagini simboliche, immagini panoramiche. Per ogni gruppo ho selezionato da 10 a 20 immagini.
Ho eseguito poi a distanza di un paio di giorni una sorta di "ripescaggio" tra le immagini scartate in prima battuta, rimettendo in gioco circa una decina di fotografie.
Ora con queste immagini risultanti ho cominciato ad attribuire dei punteggi: da 1 a 5 punti per luce e tecnica. da 1 a 5 punti per soggetto inquadrato. da 1 a 5 per effetto emozionale . Ho ripetuto l'attribuzione dei punteggi due volte e a distanza di un paio di giorni in modo da poter essere più obbiettivo possibile.
Per ogni gruppo ho quindi estrapolato le 4 immagini con il punteggio più alto, arrivando alle 20 richieste.
Per ora è tutto e non mi resta che dire: in bocca al lupo ai finalisti!
A presto.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

What Kind Of Dune Buggy Should I Get

Images of architecture in the world 08: Tokyo is closer


Per chi non l'avesse letta, è stata pubblicata la scorsa settimana, sul portale di Viaggi di Architettura la news sulle foto arrivate in semifinale.
Scatti inediti e particolari, di luoghi di grandissimo interesse architettonico, sono ritratti nelle fifty images selected for the competition Travel Photography of Architecture, "Images of Architecture 08 " now in its second edition. The jury to work for more than ten days, led to a job of skimming to select, among the 650 images, the ones most deserving can tell, in an innovative way, spaces and places of architectural interest. Among the different opinions of the jurors, it appears that convergence to the recognition of images where the architecture plays a major role, compared to the quality of the shot itself, and the effects played by the lights and shadows. The final verdict will be announced in late January. The winner of the photo competition will fly to Tokyo and in the safe hands of Hotel Plan, sponsor of the contest, stay for 5 days and 4 nights in a hotel of the tour operator.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Does Bonjela Once Work?

we're almost there ...



we are working with great effort, to reduce the number of shots from 650 to 50. The work is very difficult for us to 5 (and I must say that our opinions are so different from each other).
As beautiful and evocative images, the appearance of 'architecture' for some is secondary to effects / shadows / etc.
There are so many beautiful shots, with images of great emotion and certainly of great quality, but where the 'architecture' is unfortunately unrecognizable.
Personally I am very drawn to animated pictures of people, with people moving images, making the idea of \u200b\u200bcommunication and interaction with spaces and I know that I have personally experienced.
for the weekend put on line the 50 semifinalists ... watch this space ....

Friday, December 12, 2008

Brent Corrigan Big Eas

A contest closed ... Here

We have closed the collection of pictures with about 650 pictures in the race . I must say that the level is in general is very high. Participated mainly architects, many students, some professionals and many amateurs. Entries came from all over Italy 'and also by several Italians living abroad.
The most photographed sites remain, as for the previous edition: the science city of Valencia, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the German Pavilion in Barcelona by Mies. I am glad to note that often these places per se 'photogenic' have been interpreted with shots and unexpected angles from affiliates less. As a member of the jury I'm looking for this ... your personal vision of architecture, the way you interact, understand and convey the buildings portraits. We

jury members have training and how to interpret the images are very different, but we share the relatively young age and our love for architecture. In the coming weeks we will select the images up to reduce them to 50 semifinalists and then, all'inizio di gennaio, un solo fortunato (ma senz'altro un bravissimo fortunato....) sarà nominato vincitore assoluto e partirà per Tokyo. Sono entusiata di avere come partner dell'edizione '08 Hotelplan , che ci fornisce i servizi a Tokyo per il vincitore del primo premio. Un grazie enorme quindi a Hotelplan e a tutti voi di esservi messi in gioco.

Apprezzerei moltissimo i vostri commenti e ogni tipo di interazione sul blog per quanto riguarda gli scatti in gara. A presto, Mikaela.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

What Do The Shag Bands Mean

jurors Images of Architecture 08


Sonia Audoly
Laureata in architettura, con una grande attrazione per l'arte, l'architettura, il cinema e il design, trasforma her passions in a work full of passion.
has collaborated with Politecnico di Milano as an assistant to the Industrial Design course and then began working at the Domus Academy Research Center, focusing on trends, design-oriented, colors, materials and product.
started writing for a magazine of art and antiques, English, while in Italy working as a freelance with different decor magazines and news as a journalist and as a stylist.
For eight years the fields of architecture, design, news and trends in Elle Decor Italy.