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First Prize – Photographer of the Quarter
- New! $1,000 Cash | 1st Pick of Product Prizes
Second Prize
- $500 Cash | 2nd Pick of Product Prizes
Third Prize
- $250 Cash | 3rd Pick of Product Prizes
Fourth Prize
- $150 Cash | 4th Pick of Product Prizes
Fifth Prize
- $100 Cash | 5th Pick of Product Prizes
6th – 9th Prize
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Lavalu Post Processing – 4 Gift Certificates ($200, $150, $100 and $50 value)
Treat yourself to what you really need – some free time! The experienced editors at Lavalu are experts in making your images look fantastic. Lavalu is providing four gift certificates ($200, $150, $100, $50) which can be used for any of their services!
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ProDPI Photo Lab Gift Certificates ($200, $100, and $50 value)
ProDPI is providing print certificates in the amounts of $200, $100, and $50. Winners can redeem their certificates for any ProDPI product!
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Quik Photo Tools Gift Certificates ($200, $100, and $50 value)
DQ Studios presents smart solutions for creative photographers. Quik Photo Tools provides Photo Keyboards, Shooting Tools, DVDs and Software.
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Willow Album Design – Premium Album Design up to 30 pages ($300 value)
Fresh, clean album design is what we offer to photographers that want to focus on the their imagery. Willow Album Design can help you spend more time creating photographs and less time attached to the computer afterward. With three different design styles, there’s a perfect album design solution waiting for you.
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Gift Certificate towards a sample Finao ONE album ($250 value)
Albums with attitude. Winner will be given a coupon after the close of the contest.
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Triple Scoop Music – Lifetime song license to 1st – 4th place winners ($60 value each)
The 1st – 4th place winners will each receive a lifetime license for any single song from Triple Scoop Music. TSM offers award winning music by an impressive list of independent artists, including Grammy & Emmy winners. You can select from thousands of hand-picked royalty-free songs by award-winning artists and composers. Easily find great songs and use the music legally for marketing and promotion. Hear why the world’s top photographers grow their business with music from Triple Scoop Music.
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Mobile Fotographer – One Year Free Subscription ($216 value)
Mobile Fotographer – Studio Management for the rest of us. Includes: Calendar, Clients, Accounting – with invoicing, To Do List, Production, Pricing Calculator, Mentoring, (online contract signing coming Summer 2010). Unlimited logins. Pay only one price for your entire studio. Access from any computer with an Internet connection, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Droid, Pre, etc.
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Fundy SOS – Fundy Dollars Gift Certificate ($200 value)
75% of surveyed users say they’ve cut their production time in half (or more) using Fundy SOS Products. The Fundy Dollars may be used on any product or combination of products.
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Focht Creative Gift Certificate ($200 value)
Focht Creative has a collection of essential tools such as the Focht Retouch Palette, Lightroom Presets, Action Sets, Texture Packs all of which save you time and make your images stand out.
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Totally Rad Actions 2 – The Revenge – Version 1.2 ($159 value)
TRA2 – The Revenge is the cutting-edge new action set from the creators of the beloved Totally Rad Action Mix. TRA2 is a completely new set of actions for Adobe Photoshop that work together as a system, giving you an unprecedented blend of convenience and flexibility. This action set will unlock countless possibilities for making your photos shine, from dramatic black and whites, to vintage color effects, to everyday utilities to enhance your images. TRA2 is also the perfect compliment to the original Totally Rad Action Mix, adding powerful tools to your arsenal, while working seamlessly with the tools you already know and love.
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Think Tank Urban Disguise 30 ($130 value)
This is the perfect size for many photographers who actively shooting, since it holds a 70-200 f2.8 inside, with the hood reversed, a wide angle with the hood, and a pro-size SLR in the front expandable pocket (without a lens attached). A DSLR without a bottom battery grip can be put inside with a lens attached straight down into the bag. The bag also can be attached to a roller.
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Riley G Designworks: One designer camera strap by ISPWP Member Aaron Willcox ($98 value)
Upgrade your style with your choice of any of our rockin’ camera straps. Pick from any design line including the limited edition straps made from upcycled vintage car seats. All our camera straps are proudly hand-crafted here in the USA and made with a great mix of new and recycled materials. Each strap is carefully constructed and fabricated for you. Several lengths and camera attachments are available to fit your shooting style.
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Proofmaker by ISPWP Member Mike Dickson ($75 value)
Proofmaker is a Photoshop CS2/CS3 script that will generate bordered proof images with the image name, or copyright information — or both (or neither) — into your photos, in one easy step. Easily turn your photos into bordered, labeled proofs!
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- Each participant must be an ISPWP member on the date of the contest deadline (July 1, 2010). If you are not an ISPWP member, apply for membership today!
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- All ISPWP members may submit 2 free images per contest. Additional images are $10 USD each (25 image limit per photographer per contest).
- Contest fees are non-refundable.
- There is no “pre-payment” for credits for contest entries. You will be directed to a payment form after you submit your entry.
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- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: All payments and images must be submitted by 11:59pm, US Pacific Time, Thursday, July 1, 2010.
- Images must have been taken within 12 months of the contest deadline and may not have previously placed in an ISPWP photo contest.
- Images must be of actual wedding clients in the context of their wedding, engagement session, bridal session, or portrait session. Images of models posing as brides or images taken at a workshop, seminar, or convention may not be used.
- Judges may change the assigned category of an image if they determine it was entered into the wrong category.
- Each image may be entered into only one category.
- Images will be judged on creativity, originality, technical expertise, artistic merit, and relevance to theme.
- Your entry to the contest constitutes your agreement to allow your name and photographs to be published on the ISPWP website. Entrants retain ownership and all other usage rights of their photographs.
- By entering, participants warrant that his or her images are original, created by the participant, do not infringe on any third party’s rights, and that participant has obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party’s property appears in the photograph.
- For studios that have multiple photographers, each photographer must enter the contest individually. Each individual photographer may enter 2 free entries (25 image limit per photographer per contest). Only the highest scoring member of that studio will count towards the studio’s local page ranking points.
- The judges’ decision on all matters relating to the competition is final. The contest judges are ISPWP member volunteers. On occasion, non-member professional wedding photographers may be invited to guest judge.
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- Image files must be in jpeg format, 720 pixels on the long side, and smaller than 125kb in size.
- NEW! Image filenames may be any unique name. (You no longer have to save each image file with a specific number and text sequence.)
Images should have straight, unmodified borders. No strokes, keylines, frames, borders, torn edges, polaroid edges, or other modifications are allowed except for the “Pure Art” category.
The top of the image must be oriented properly. Images will be judged and displayed in the orientation they are submitted.
Images judged to be pornographic, obscene, or containing graphic violence or any other content deemed inappropriate will be disqualified at the sole discretion of the judges.
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PHOTOJOURNALISM CATEGORIES
These images may not be setup, directed, or prompted by the photographer. Minor Photoshop enhancements such as cropping, levels, curves, white balance adjustments and subtle vignetting are allowed. Color, B/W, and basic/subtle toned images are acceptable.
Judges will be instructed to penalize shots that are obviously setup or directed by the photographer, or that use excessive Photoshop enhancements.
1. Getting Ready – Images that depict the preparations before the wedding
2. Ceremony Images – Images taken at the ceremony venue
3. First Dance – Images of the first dance at the reception, typically the bride with her father
4. Reception – Images taken at the reception venue
5. Emotional Impact – Images that depict or evoke a strong emotional reaction
6. Humor – Images that make you smile
7. Kids Will Be Kids – Images of the kids acting like kids
8. Family Love – Images that show interaction, love, and togetherness of families
9. The Decisive Moment – Images where timing is everything. One second before or after would have missed the shot.
PORTRAIT CATEGORIES
These image may be setup, directed, or prompted by the photographer. Photoshop enhancements such as skin retouching, cropping, levels, curves, white balance adjustments and subtle vignetting are allowed. Color, B/W, and toned images are acceptable. Judges will be instructed to penalize excessive Photoshop enhancements where the image becomes more graphic art than photograph. Those images are better suited for the Pure Art category. Images must be of actual wedding clients in the context of their wedding, engagement session, bridal session, or portrait session. Images of models posing as brides or images taken at a workshop, seminar, or convention may not be used.
10. Bride Portrait
11. Bride and Groom Portrait
12. Bridal Party Portrait
13. Engagement Portrait
ART CATEGORIES
These images have no restrictions on posing, direction, or Photoshop enhancements.
14. Venue/Location – Images showing the environments or buildings used for any part of the wedding day
15. Framing The Subject – Images using creative composition or environmental elements to frame the main subject in the photo
16. Movement and Motion – Images that convey motion with blur, panning, dragging the shutter or other techniques
17. All About Light – Images that are enhanced with outstanding or unique lighting
18. Wedding Details – Images of the cake, flowers, decorations, rings, etc.
19. The Wedding Dress – Images of the wedding gown, either hanging up before the wedding or worn by the bride
20. Pure Art – Images that showcase the artistic ability of the photographer. Creative Photoshop enhancements and experiments are encouraged.
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| High scoring images in each category will earn the photographer ranking points to place their website listing higher on their ISPWP Listing Page.
| Place in Category |
Ranking point award |
| 1st place in category |
10 ranking points |
| 2nd place in category |
7 ranking points |
| 3rd place in category |
5 ranking points |
| 4th place in category |
3 ranking points |
| 5th place in category |
2 ranking points |
| 6th place in category |
1 ranking point |
| 7th place in category |
1 ranking point |
| 8th place in category |
1 ranking point |
| 9th place in category |
1 ranking point |
| 10th place in category |
1 ranking point |
| Each image entry |
.1 ranking point (ex. 1 full point for 10 entries) |
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Roland Michels, Hamburg, Germany
Roland Michels has been living and working as a freelance photographer since 2004 in Hamburg, Germany. His photographic career began with food and advertising photography. Very soon though, wedding photography became the focus of his interest. He photographs wedding couples on Mauritius as well as in Greece, Austria, Switzerland and France. Within a short time he has become one of the leading and best known German wedding photographers. There followed publications & interviews in the German trade press (“Fotomagazin”, “Fotopresse”, “Fotowirtschaft”) and seminars for expert audiences in Germany and Switzerland. Roland Michels was the first German photographer of the ISPWP.
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Gill Taylor – Gill Taylor Photographer, Stafford, United Kingdom
Gill Taylor was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland but moved to England to be with her husband almost 14 years ago. She first studied photography in high school and, at 15, had quite an extensive kit bag. In her early twenty’s she followed the Irish bike racing, shooting for fun, then hung up her cameras when she got divorced. It was 10 years later that new husband John dragged her into a camera shop and made her buy a digital SLR. She went back to college for laughs and a brush-up on skills, only to find they were still living in the darkroom! Her first digital SLR was a silver Canon 300D (don’t laugh). She still has her original Canon AE-1 which she will never part with. For the last 7 years Gill has been building her business in the UK and Europe, having shot weddings and corporate commissions in England, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In a recent interview, Gill was asked “How did you become a photographer?” Her response: “It’s funny, I never honestly thought I would. When I was studying at college, wedding photography was sniffed at by both students and professors alike. I was almost embarrassed to admit I quite fancied it. I went on a Bron lighting seminar a few years back and bumped into a photographer who needed some web work doing. In return, he allowed me to tag along on a couple of weddings. That led to a firm friendship and a 2 year second-shooting relationship, which was totally invaluable. I like to think of my journey into wedding photography as a very happy accident and something I adore.”
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Jeff Dietz – Jeff Dietz Photography, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
I love my job! My studio is located out of the Wilkes Barre/Scranton Pennsylvania area in a very small town. From this location we have grown into a nationally recognized studio photographing clients all across the country. I started photography by having a vast business background, and was hungry to make my photographic vision match my business success. Although I had been around cameras my entire life, it wasn’t until I discovered some of the great wedding photographers such as Yervant, Jerry Ghionis, Jeff Ascough and fashion greats like Richard Avedon, that I truly fell in love with creating photographs and had to learn everything I could get my hands on. I describe my style as a mix of photojournalism and fashion. The most important feature I look for when creating a photograph is light and a great connection with the couple! I take great pride in assuring that every one of my wedding couples walks away with a beautifully designed one-of-a kind storybook album from their wedding. I have had several images place in the number 1 position in various categories of the ISPWP competitions, and I am honored to take part in this quarter’s judging. I also enjoy teaching workshops for local students as well as providing business workshops for beginners or seasoned professionals. I believe in giving back and I will soon be embarking on the largest charitable project of my life entitled: “1,000 Portraits”.
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Anahi Navarro – Anahi Navarro Photography, McAllen, Texas
Anahi Navarro is living the dream of creativity and passion which drives her to success in photography. Having been surrounded by inspiration since she was young, art became an outlet for her spare energy. That energy has now flourished into a successful and award winning wedding photography business. “Weddings are the culmination of emotions of two people expressing their love to each other and the world. Being able to capture that is an amazing feeling.” She is based in south Texas but her business takes her all over the country and beyond.
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