Received a mailing today from PhotoWorkshop.com (no relation) about their photography and Digital Imaging competition – the header image by Wendell Penedo (a former first prize winner in their Photo Illustration category) is a striking surrealist image of raining umbrellas. (I won’t reproduce the image here in respect of copyright.) Well I say umbrellas but it doesn’t take a moment to notice that it is the same cloned and flipped singular umbrella. Very lazy composite imaging as you have shadows and highlights in direct contradiction on the flipped umbrellas – something I would have criticised any undergraduate student of mine for. What I found surprising is that Wendell Pendeo’s other work in his short portfolio is exquisitely put together – so how did this win first prize and go unnoticed by the judges? Perhaps it’s a planet with two suns, perhaps people are forgetting to use a photographer’s eyes when producing photorealistic fantasy imagery.
