Shots from the 2009 All South are starting to go up on the site.
I made a boneheaded mistake: I had the light meter set to balance the whole frame rather than center-weighted. Either I forgot to reset it or I bonked the dial while swapping lenses, and far too many of the shots were overexposed– hence the black-and-white shots that show up on occasion in the collection.
I also got caught flat-footed when the head judge dismissed a competitor, the only one in her weight class, without performing her mandatories. Sure, I understand that she’d automatically *won* her class and from that aspect there wasn’t much point to keeping her out there, but I’d been shooting all the on-stage competitors equally during the free-posing, which means she only got a couple of shots.
If I’d been paying attention (having been bitten by this before) I’d’ve shot only her during the free-posing and the other competitors during the mandatories. It’s the greater shame because she’s made terrific progress since the last time I saw her, at the 2008 Gainesville.
Either way they were rookie errors that come from letting too much time go between shows. I’ll have to make a checklist for next year, I suppose.
_Update, 2009 Dec 03:_ Last of the show shots are up. Enjoy.
The site overall is still in a state of upheaval (like everything else these days) but with luck I’ll get the final few contests ported over to Coppermine soon, which will allow me to remove the standalone “Contest Photos” page.