Hello all .... I occasionally enter images in competitions run by my local camera club. I’ve been a member for a while now. At a recent event, another member entered a picture of some swans on a lake and gave it a quirky title (Drifting Along) as opposed to calling it Mute Swans at Windermere, or similar. The judge commented that “wildlife” images should simply be titled with the correct species name and current advice is that such images will be marked down in future if given off-beat type titles.
Has anyone any experience of this? Where is the line between a record shot of a bird, and some form of artistic interpretation of a scene which happens to include birds (or hedgehogs/foxes/lions .... or whatever .... )? I ask because - unusually for me - I’m thinking of entering a shot of some starlings on a fence in our next competition and want to give it a quirky title, rather than just calling it Three Starlings. I’m normally useless at bird images, but this one is one of my better efforts ....
Sorry for the rather boring question, but interested in anyone’s thoughts on titles generally .... Many thanks.
Has anyone any experience of this? Where is the line between a record shot of a bird, and some form of artistic interpretation of a scene which happens to include birds (or hedgehogs/foxes/lions .... or whatever .... )? I ask because - unusually for me - I’m thinking of entering a shot of some starlings on a fence in our next competition and want to give it a quirky title, rather than just calling it Three Starlings. I’m normally useless at bird images, but this one is one of my better efforts ....
Sorry for the rather boring question, but interested in anyone’s thoughts on titles generally .... Many thanks.