2022 CCMA Excellence in Student Media

Best Magazine Photo ( Community Colleges)Back

  • Place Name: First Place
    Contestant Name: El Camino College
    Entry Title: The woman behind the Warrior Pantry
    Entry Credit: Mari Inagaki
    Judge Comment: This is a compelling, contextual environmental portrait, that immediately the viewer can infer what's going on within the image and who the subject is. Strong focus on the eyes immediately pulls the viewer into the photo, bypassing the cans of food, which provides more meaning to the overall image.
  • Place Name: Second Place
    Contestant Name: City College of San Francisco
    Entry Title: Through Her Eyes Portrait by Xiaofan Fang
    Entry Credit: Xiaofan Fang
    Judge Comment: Strong emotion within the image, though the framing of the image overlaps, perhaps unnecessarily. Framing or a shift in perspective at this precise moment could have taken this image from good and solid, to great!
  • Place Name: Third Place
    Contestant Name: Pierce College
    Entry Title: US Open of Surfing
    Entry Credit: Bala Subramaniyan
    Judge Comment: Nice moment captured in available light, though viewers have seen images like this before. Consider altering the perspective at which the image was taken--could it have made the image more compelling--probably so. Overall the editing of color and contrast needs a little work as well. Solid, useable image, though could have been easily strengthened in a variety of means taking the mundane image to something more compelling and captivating.
  • Competition Comment: None