John Lucas, photographer

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John Lucas

>Thanks john. I did have quite few friends who are talented enough to get a piece in there. I was lucky enough to be able to shoot them. Unfortunately they used shots that I often due in a hurry. They bring all this work in and just want it shot and don't always tell me what it's for. If I know they are for publication I usually try to give them a more dramatic photo than I typically would for a juried slide. However it seems like juried slides are now going that directtion so I can probably get by with much more dramatic photos than I could in the past.

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Joel Hunnicutt

>John, I had dinner one night at ACC with a couple of guys who served on the glass jury and they echoed the same thing. They saw the slides so quickly that the only one's that stayed with them were the more dramatic shots.

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John Lucas

>Joel

I've served on a Jury twice. It's hard work. You see so many slides that you only remember a few anyway. You try your best to ignore the photography and concentrate on the work but it's difficult to ignore when one slide knocks your socks off the the next one is just plain and ordinary.

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JamieDonaldson

>And we're supposed to be jurying only the work, and not be critical of the slide quality! That's a real dilemma for a photographer- we're always trying to improve the setting in product shooting, and for a jury the setting should not affect or detract from the work being juried.