The Perfect Picture; season 2, episode 4

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 00:20 by Elja Trum | 7,889 views | 1 comment

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Tonight was already the fourth episode of the second season of The Perfect Picture. In this episode, the celebrities photographed a motocross race and an embarrassing self-portrait.

I have to say, I enjoyed watching this episode again. We know by now that it is more entertainment than photography, but I don't think there is anything wrong with that. I certainly had a good time with all the terrible jokes and comments.

Motocross race

The first assignment was to photograph a motocross race. The participants had half an hour, the entire duration of one race, to take their photo.

Photo by Roel -
f/5, 1/1,000s, 160 ISO
I thought Roel's winning photo, along with Giel's, was the best. Just like the jury, really. Giel's photo was taken from a place where he was not actually allowed to be, so I think he was lucky that the photo still finished so high.

The participants used the Canon 5D mark IV fitted with either a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens or a 24-105mm f/4. Nice kit to work with, and of course ideal equipment for a shoot like this, where focusing speed is also important.

Sports photographer Henny Berno Stern was the guest judge for this shoot and mainly had the difficult task of keeping the participants safe. They paid little attention to the strict rules surrounding the event.

Embarrassing self-portrait

The second assignment was to capture an embarrassing self-portrait. The celebrities were given one hour and fifteen minutes for this, during which they had to think of everything, arrange it all and take the photo.

I thought they all worked quite creatively. Personally, I thought Giel's photo was the best. He had also arranged everything for the photo extremely well, the brothel, the woman in lingerie and
the setting for his photo.

Because everything fitted together so well, he did miss the embarrassing part a little. The jury thought Isa's photo was better, so she won this round. The emotion in her photo is certainly spot on, but personally I found it a little less exciting photographically.

Photo by Isa - f/8, 1/125s, 100 ISO
Portrait photographer Suzanne Middelberg was the guest judge for the self-portraits. She does indeed make a lot of raw (self-)portraits, so I understand that she was looking for this in the contestants' images.

Home assignment

The home assignment for next week is: take a striking action photo. On Canon's Het Perfecte Plaatje website, you can watch the How it's done video with tips for this assignment.

Also read this article with useful tips for an action photo. This will help you get started with the home assignment next week.

Next week

Gordon was the loser this week and had to leave the show. Next week, we will see the remaining contestants during a shoot on a mountain in the Ardennes.

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