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Best Photo Series ( Less than 15,000 Students)Back

Place Name: First Place
Contestant Name: Cal Baptist University
Entry Title: CBU fills the Events Center for Midnight Madness
Entry Credit: Claire Grimes, Marharyta Smirnova
Judge Comment: Strong layout of cohesively edited imagery. Great, tight edit on the event, great visual variety. To strengthen, let photos have richer dark black tones, even with conditions they way they were with the smoke machine, there would still be some images with stronger black tones. Get closer with your closer photos, consider cropping tighter, or renting a longer lens.
Place Name: Second Place
Contestant Name: Occidental College
Entry Title: Diving into Occidental’s water usage
Entry Credit: Leo Blain
Judge Comment: Great visual variety in perspectives, range and compositions. To strengthen series, consider including more human relationship to usage or mis-usage of water.
Place Name: Third Place
Contestant Name: Humboldt State -- Lumberjack
Entry Title: Danza Azteca showcases indigenous culture
Entry Credit: Morgan Hancock
Judge Comment: Beautiful variety of details, range and perspectives of imagery. Tighten edit to reduce redundancy from first to second page of layout. Images lack relational elements.
Competition Comment: Overall strong entries within the competition. At times, when lacking equipment necessary to get in tighter, it's okay to crop in tighter to help strengthen images. Consider including images that are more relational within your photo series/photo stories. Consider going to events to cover the before and after the events as much as the actual events. What does it look like to prepare for the event, what's it like behind the stage?