Photography; Tips for Photo Competitions

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I like photo competitions; they give the photographers a specific subject to work on. These subjects may be the ones that you never tried before. But forcing yourself to do your best and taking picture in some rules and restrictions can sometimes boost your creativity. Also prices and awards encourage photographers to create more and work harder. Competitions give you the chance to compare yourself with other photographers. I learned some of the tips below by doing. So I’m writing my mistakes and the things that i learned by doing so you don’t do the same mistakes.

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Rules: Read the rules carefully. If your picture is violating the rules, it will be disqualified no matter how great it is.

Enter Your Best Work: Enter the contest with your best work. If there are pictures that you don’t think they are good enough for the competition do not enter with them.

Be Original: Your pictures should be impressive and different if you want them to qualify in the competition. Try to think outside of the box. ( But first you must find a box to think outside of and this requires experience and experiments.)

Think About It; Think about the subject of the competition. Firs ideas may be too obvious and you can ignore them. Think something original, approach the subject with a different look.

Do not Enter Every Competition: Don’t enter every competition you see. Choose the ones that exciting you, so you can be more passionate and creative while you are working on this subject. In addition some contest especially “Internet contests” (some of them are good though) does not worth even trying. In an Internet contest i uploaded my work and i saw a lot of picture “similar” to the one i took uploaded next day.

Impacts: Use color, shapes, expressions and humour wisely in your work so it can catch the eyes of jury and other viewers.

Exposure, Focus and Composition; These are the basic concepts of photography, but they are really important at competitions. There should be no mistake about these concepts in your work or forget about winning the competition.

Uniqueness; Try to find something that no one else would think about it.

Prints; Do not forget that the digital pictures that you took does not look the same on the computer screen and printed on paper. A picture that looks fine and well exposured, can be too dark after printing and this will cost you in competition.

Also don’t forget that, photography magazine competitions are hard to win due to high standards of entries. You have a better chance to win the competitions run by non-photographic magazines and non-photographic companies.