Re: [AGA-Contest] Plant forums

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Stevens-Lavigne Zoe wrote:

> Oh, Bailin (and everyone), regarding the masthead: please note that I'd be
> happy to combine features of various into a new masthead, as well as remove
> any blur / colour tweaking you find distasteful.  I want to make sure the
> masthead accurately represents what AGA, and that everyone is happy with it
> - so don't be afraid to knitpick!

Bailin probably relayed the comments, but all of us really liked the new 
one you did in the last batch (the first one).

I think we also liked the concept in the fourth one in the previous batch, 
with the figure-8 with the cardinals and flags of the world.  Only oddity 
there (to me) was the reduction of contrast (specifically, the boosting of 
the black level) made what was a crisp, contrasty, professional photo look 
muddy and a little amateurish.

Having done most of these in the past, it's really hard to say what 
represents the contest.  Because sometimes it's been very specific, while 
others just kinda happened.  2004's "Museum" masthead was inspired 
directly from conversations I had with people, some of whom were saying 
how we need to throw out the whole "viability" scoring and treat it like 
the fine art that it is, while others were saying "it's just an aquarium 
-- it's supposed to be fun!"  The first year's montage of continuous 
aquascape was supposed to show people that rockwork and fantasy designs 
were OK (the latter didn't catch on).  But 2001 was definitely a "this 
seems like it'd be cool", and 2006 was kinda thrown together at the last 
minute as I was going through entry after entry of those split aquascapes 
with the channel down the middle.  And 2005's judge extravaganza was a 
simple idea from Ricky about people sitting around a table that got out of 
control (in a good way).

Anyway, I like the first and last ones. :)

   - Erik

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Erik Olson
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