Winning A Photography Contest

Posted by Stretch | Filed under Blogs, Photography

Entering a photo contest can be a good way to intorduce others to your photography skills. But there is also a skill in entering a photo contest. This “skill” is more common sense though, as the judge that wrote this says that some people don’t even follow the guidelines when entering.

When it comes to this competition, it works like this: As one of the judges, I choose the 10 photographs I like best. For round 1, that meant choosing 10 out of 491 photographs. In other words, for every 50 photos, I can only choose one. Words can’t describe quite how difficult that is: A lot of talent and creativity goes into competition entries, and a lot can be said about.

And the final tip… Develop your own style

There are a lot of fantastic photos out there, and a myriad of tutorials for how you can recreate them, but that’s only half the story: you have to take something and make it your own. Think of it as cooking a new dish: Do you follow the recipe perfectly, or are you confident enough in the kitchen to use it as a base, and remove some things, and add others? If you’re doing the latter, then you’re probably doing the right thing…

Via Digg

Permalink | June 10th, 2007

2 Responses to “Winning A Photography Contest”

  1. Photocritic Says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Thank you for linking to my blog - glad you liked it!

    Also, couldn’t fail to spot you were listening to Him just now - great stuff - I photographed them a while back, see the pics here: http://www.3songs.org/him-his-infernal-majesty

    Cheers,
    - H

  2. Stretch Says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    No problem, I’ll probably be reading your blog for some time. I’m not a huge HIM fan, but I listen to them from time to time. Nice photos though.