Shots from the 2011 Orlando Metro are up on the site.
This isn’t my best work; the light-colored background at Lyman got me again, leaving many of the competitors looking over-contrasted, though the shots look wonderful in the camera’s preview panel. Need to get there super-early one time and experiment– probably just need to use a counterintuitive metering mode.
For a debut show the Orlando Metro ran like a top. High point of the prejudging was head judge Pete Fancher calling out a “helpful” audience member who had yelled “Open it up!” to his figure-competitor protege’.
“Do not ‘open it up’,” Pete responded. “We’re holding a seminar called, ‘What the Judges are Looking For’, you might want to attend that.”
Priceless! And overdue. (Pete was serious, too, by the way.)