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Best Photo Story (Multi-day) ( Class V) Back

Place Name: First Place
Contestant Name: Iowa City - The Daily Iowan
Entry Title: Female Firefighter
Entry Credit: Grace Smith
Judge Comment: Nice images that told a story. Needed more photos, but all the photos had a purpose in the story. Feels like the photographer got to know the subjects a bit, and this came through in their comfort in front of the camera. Sometimes you can blow through a lot if images before the subject gets used to the camera and relaxes. Keep up the good work.
Place Name: Second Place
Contestant Name: Ames - Iowa State Daily
Entry Title: PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of the ISU Fashion Show
Entry Credit: Daniel Jacobi II, Brielle Tuttle
Judge Comment: Nice collection of images that made me feel what i was like in this venue.Good job working with low light. Would have liked to see more depth to some of the photos. These people had some reactions, good and bad, to what was happening around them. Let the reader see that.
Place Name: Third Place
Contestant Name: Iowa City - The Daily Iowan
Entry Title: Spencer Lee
Entry Credit: Ayrton Breckenridge, Jerod Ringwald, Grace Smith, Matt Sindt
Judge Comment: This story had a great intro picture. It drew me into the story and made me want to see more. Would have really liked to see some of the photos cropped tighter, especially the photo with the other wrestler celebrating and Lee laying on the mat looking bewildered. The entire right third of the frame should go. It draws away from the true action happening in the other two-thirds. Photos do not always have to fit in a 2:3 horizontal shape. Some things happen vertically too.