Fantastic Response to New Zealand Camera By Paul Whitham LPSNZ, Councillor for Publications
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2021 edition of New Zealand Camera closed on 31 March and the response far exceeded those received in 2020. In total, 387 photographers submitted 749 images for consideration. This is well up on the 274 photographers who entered 538 images in 2020. Members will be aware that only images taken after 1 January 2019 were eligible for selection, and those submitting were asked to confirm that the image complied. It was therefore very disappointing that seven images from six photographers were disqualified as their metadata indicated that they were taken before 1 January 2019. Our intrepid group of selectors - Toya Heatley APSNZ, Annette Johnson APSNZ, Suzie Whelan APSNZ and Daniel Wong APSNZ will have a mammoth task whittling the images down to the 150 that will appear in the book.
Table 1 by Brand Canon Nikon Sony Olympus Panasonic/Lumix Phones Fujifilm Pentax Leica DJI (drone)
As a first step, all of the images were put into a Lightroom catalogue and this showed up some interesting stats. Of the 751 images, Lightroom was able to recognise 574 which had been shot with a total of 119 different cameras brands/models. Table 1 below shows how the 574 were spread amongst the brands. The images were then categorised into their major groups and it was interesting to see what most people were shooting (Table 2). The selection process will take place through April and results will be emailed out some time in May. We hope to have the book distributed in September.
Table 2 by Category Total 228 153 112 28 19 11 8 8 4 3
% 39.7% 26.7% 19.5% 4.9% 3.3% 1.9% 1.4% 1.4% 0.7% 0.5%
Landscape People Birds Creative/Abstract Flowers & Plants Photojournalism Animals Still Life Structures Insects Transport
Total 209 127 111 103 56 37 36 27 20 13 12
% 27.8% 16.9% 14.8% 13.7% 7.5% 4.9% 4.8% 3.6% 2.7% 1.7% 1.6%
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