Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Washington Community High School Entry Title: Assembly activities engage enthusiastic crowd Entry Credit: Siya Iyer, Amelia Vincent Judge Comment: Nice grouping of assembly photos with informative head and appropriate level of detail in captions. To improve: Try to move away from the staid layout of a rectangular box; good work making one photo dominant in the grouping.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Prospect High School Entry Title: Prospect Gives Back Entry Credit: Alyssa Kowols, Sienna DeMonte, Cora Richer Judge Comment: Good work providing a variety of photos on community activities. To improve: establish one photo as the dominant one of the group -- as such, it should be at least twice the size of the next-largest photo.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Prospect High School Entry Title: Fabulous Las Vegas Knights Entry Credit: Tessa Trylovich, Alyssa Kowols, Cora Richer Judge Comment: Good array of photos, but the layout creates a checkerboard effect that distracts from the visual appeal. To improve: establish one photo (ideally, the one with the most visual appeal) as the dominant one of the group -- as such, it should be at least twice the size of the next-largest photo.
Competition Comment: Page designers should treat photo stories with the same care they use in regular layouts: Be sure to establish a center of visual interest -- usually a dominant photo that is significantly larger than next-largest photo because it is the most interesting photo. Don't get trapped into the mindset that you need to use as many photos as possible; that leads to pages that appear to be mostly a collection of stacked photos of nearly the same size.
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