It might seem daunting to enter a photo competition wether it is a print or projected digital competition. Competitions are often great sources of helpful critique and learning how other see your pictures is key to choosing images for competitions. For a photographer starting out in competition it’s all too easy to fall in to the trap of “personal attachment” to a picture. Just because you got up early and braved attrocious weather to get the picture, if it’s not visible in the resulting image then it doesn’t add to the picture. Also if the picture is a portrait of a family member that all your family says is a great picture, you need to ask is it a great picture for someone not in your family. Ask yourself these two questions about your pictures and if the personal attachment is not clouding your view then you probably have a great picture. Many photographers find it difficult to edit their own work and professional photographers often seek the advice of photo editors and other leading photographers for advice on their work.
To help you prepare for competitions we have written several articles on the website and to make it easy they have been collated here.
With digital cameras allowing photographer to shoot freely often the toughest job is to be selective when shooting and editing. We’ve all got hard disks full of images that in reality will never see the light of day, the ability to self-edit is a skill that takes a long time to learn. The picture you …
You would think this would be easy yet every competition there is always someone who struggles with this or gets it wrong, so we wrote this guide to help you out. The club projector matches the CACC standard of 1,400 pixels wide and 1,050 pixels tall. If you do the maths this is a projector …
Sending digital images seems to be so easy, but our requirements for competitions means that some time-saving email programs can cause more problems than you or the club would like. To avoid this here’s a simple guide on how to send images in for projected digital competitions at ImageZ. 1. Get the filenames right on …
When images are projected in competition the projector sets the size and aspect ratio of the image, typically most projectors use a 4:3 aspect ratio. Many digital SLR cameras capture images in a more landscape format with a 3:2 aspect ratio. Even portrait orientation images are shown on the same projector with black bars added …
Alan Taberer found this interesting article , about the judging of photographic competitions by the late Eddy Sethna FRPS AFIAP.