Pecha Kucha

http://www.pechakucha.org/

A Pecha Kucha is a presentation which uses 20 slides which show for 20 seconds while somebody talks over the top. The aim is to keep them simple and easy to follow because this will keep the audience interested.

Pecha Kucha started in Japan but has since spread world wide and many cities organise nights where a certain amount of speakers are invited to present their own Pecha Kucha.

For the Narrative Project we were introduced to this because in our brief it says that we must present our work. We are not limited to this way only though.

Print Labs

Digitalab

As I am sending my prints larger than A3 I will need to send them as tiff files with a 305 dpi. There are not many options with the choice of paper either glossy or matt, and then either with a border or without, personally I would prefer more options to be available as there are many more paper types to choose from.

Print Space

I find this website is more user friendly as the options are easily seen across the top of the site plus the print and the delivery price is easily available before ordering anything.

Print Space price calculator (one print)

Delivery pricing

As my payment method would not be accepted on this website I ordered my prints through a friend while she was ordering hers, this meant that she was ordering 6 prints at once which gave us a discounted price (which comes in handy when surviving on a student budget.)

After looking at different professional printing labs websites such as Print Space and Digitalab I have decided to go with Print Space as they give me a price straight away before ordering and their delivery time is quicker than other sites.

In lesson we also got shown a sample pack of all the different types of paper available from Print Space, this helped influence my decision to use this site because I had already seen the quality was good.

Competitions overlook

Why should we enter competitions?

• Networking
• Experience
• Occasionally receive feedback on work
• Receive funding for future projects
• Invited along to events
• Marketing
• Able to have "award winning photographer" with your name

bestshots.co.uk

A high profile competition that had ten categories and ten winners in each who won £1000 each.


Categories:

• Landscape
• Portraiture
• Still Life
• Food and Drink
• Sport
• Photo Art
• Travel
• Animal Life
• Phone Photos
• Young Snappers

National Portrait Gallery

Taylor Wessing Photographic sponsors this event.

The winners get their work exhibited in the NPG and they also receive a cash prize.

I have signed up for the newsletter emails so that I can enter next year as I had missed the deadline.

Fugi Film Student Award

The Deadline for this is the 31st of March, there is an open brief so any strong image can be entered.

In previous years the brief has been to create a cover for a book, this means understanding the book and understanding photography enough to be able to compose the image so it has negative space for the title and authors name.

The only rule is that the images must be taken using fugi film.

" In addition to being named Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year 2014 the winner will also be presented with £200 worth of film from Fujifilm, a professionally produced folio of prints and a one-to-one printing/consultancy session with one of Metroprint's top printers. The winner will also be able to select books with a value of £100 from our co-sponsor, Focal Press. " (taken from http://www.fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk/ )

Urban Photographer of the Year

This competition fits with the street photography project and the landscape project that I have done / am doing.

The deadline for this competition is 8th of August.

There is a student section

www.cbeupoty.com

There are specific measurements for submitting work and all work must be submitted online.

National Geographic

Although this is not a competition as it was mentioned in the lesson I thought I would include it as it provides a great addition to anybody's CV.

Networking Links and Useful Organisations

In this lesson we were given a useful handout about networking and websites that will be helpful for finding photographers and I can use the publications listed to keep up too date with trends and latest developments in the photography industry.

The handout includes festivals, publications, gallery websites and photographic agencies.

Many of these websites are very useful and I have signed up to follow newsletters for many of them.