Summer
6/17 Monday
@ Patty Swanson’s home studio, 81 Rumford Street, West Hartford 4pm
Judges: Susan Drew, Joan Genest, and Susan Goralski
Fall
10/23 Wednesday
Location TBA (we would like to have it the same day/night as a speaker)
Image Competition Categories:
- Wedding
- Photographs of brides and grooms (and bridesmaids & groomsmen), etc.
- The purpose of this competition is to allow photographers to enter images to be judged against a standard of excellence using the 12 Elements of a Merit Image. (For more information, go to PPA.com/IPC.) In addition to the twelve elements, for an image to be merit worthy in the wedding competition, additional evaluation may be considered for the entries that illustrate the personality of the subject or subjects and the story of the wedding as well as the artistic and technical skills of the image maker.
- For this category, Judges will keep in mind that the maker has limited control over many aspects of a wedding. For example: subject matter, environment and time of day. Ultimately, additional consideration may be given to the maker for technically and artistically executing at a merit level in spite of challenges involved at an actual wedding.
- Images and all elements of an image in the Wedding competition must be created during the time constraints of the actual event. Images not created during the time constraints of the actual event may be entered in the Creative/Open competition.
- The entrant or entrants must have captured all elements of the final submission from that wedding. Images in the Wedding competition should reflect the personality or personalities of the subject(s) or the story of the wedding as well as the personality, artistic and technical skills of the image maker. Images should include some kind of visual wedding reference(s). The original captured image (in RAW, jpg or film) must be available if requested by the IPC committee.
- Portrait
- Humans only, headshot, full body. The human should be the main subject. Environmental images can be entered into open, Lifestyle or perhaps even Artistry (if composited)
- Creative (i.e. “Open”)
- Landscape, Flowers, Animals, Fine Art, Still life, Dogs, Cats, Events, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceaneras, etc. etc. etc.
- Artistry (previously called ART-EI)
- You MUST include guide images.
- Artistry without guide images will be scored but will not be eligible for awards.
- For this category (only) you may use elements like textures, stock images. The main subject must be photographed by the maker.
- Lifestyle
- "Lifestyle photography is a kind of photography that mainly aims to capture portrait/people in situations, real-life events or milestones in an artistic manner and the art of the everyday. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's lives". Lifestyle photography lies somewhere in between documentary photography and classic portraiture.
- You will be able to enter as many images you want (the top 6 will count as your "case") in order to get more feedback from the judges and to figure out what images you want to enter into PPA district and/or IPC.
Save the Date:
The CTPPA 71st Annual Conference will be held on February 7-9, 2020
For the 2020 Annual Convention Image Competition...
- We will be adding some additional awards such as “Rookie of the Year” award to encourage newbies to enter and to spread the wealth of awards given
- We will be adding a Club 480 award (all six case images earning 80 or above)
- We would like to encourage newbies to enter by allowing them a first time “freebie” for their first time entering (CTPPA image competition registration free but they will have to pay the $9/year for printcompetition.com)
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