Lens Culture

https://www.lensculture.com/visual-storytelling-awards-2014



Deadline :

19th October 2014

Brief :

" Show us your story "

Perks :

the five winners recieve cash prize and to work with Edition One on publishing their work
online promo
catalog sent to "Lens Culture insiders"

Past Winners

their success stories are on the website



 Copyright :

Sony World Photography

http://worldphoto.org/about-the-sony-world-photography-awards/

Different competitions :

open, youth, professional, student focus


Deadline :

Student -6th December 2014
youth - 5th January 2015

Prizes:

Travelling Exhibition :

Competition held:
yearly

Student Focus Competition brief:

Youth Category :

these are the three sub categories for the youth comp

Aperture

http://www.aperture.org/portfolio-prize/



Deadline :

Tuesday December 2nd 2014


Past Winners :

Winner and runner ups work all available to view, also says some details about how what has happened to them after the comp

What happens after the comp :

magazines, travelling exhibition,

Exhibitr

Criteria :

full or part time education
over 16

Brief :

"an eye for a shot"

Deadline :

8th January 2015

Prizes / Perks :

Canon 70D for the winner
IXUS 155 for 3 runner ups
Premium account with Exhibitr for 30 runner ups

Competitions and Awards Introduction

Things to look at beforehand :

check guidelines for eligibility
who is hosting the competition ?
 - look for high profile ones
who will be seeing the comp/work ?
 - networking, collaborations, online viewing, exhibits, published in magazines
what will i win?
is there a theme?
what fees is there ?
do i get to keep the rights to the photograph ?
 - copyright
look at the feedback from previous years winners
what happens after the comp finishes
 - events, website, perks from entering, Cv line
deadlines



Competitions I should look at :

Aperture
Daylight Photo
Lens Culture
Sony World Photography
World Press Photo

Using Blogs / Research Skills

Today in lecture we looked at examples of how present their work online through a range of different media's such blogger, website servers and Tumblr. I think I am going to stay on blogger as then all my work across all the subjects can remain together and organised and I won't forget to update regularly.


As we are studying a visual degree blogs are expected to be a visual archive of our progress and developments and blogs are a multi functional tool able to effortlessy combine images and texts.

Some of the websites were laid out so the viewer had to scroll left to right to view more images; I did not like this layout as though we read from left to right on a computer screen it is typical to scroll up and down and this layout is expected and when viewing this site the rest of the images were almost missed because it was not clear how to navigate the website.

Professional Studies Module Introduction

Module Introduction

Over the course of this module I will be looking into an aspect of the photographic industry that interests me and I would like to continue looking into possibly for the future prospects after I leave Uni. I will also be looking into the competitions that are running over the year and what benefits I can get from entering them and getting the exposure though them.

I think it is a good stage for me to be entering the competitions because it will help improve my confidence and give me networking opportunities through the exposure I will be getting if I can get high up in the competition.

Also at this stage I will be creating a skills based CV based on my photographic skills, this is also good for me because I was not taught anything about these in school or college and the internet is not a very good source at all.

The brief we have been given also states that we need to create a digital archive of our work, for this I think I am going to create a new page for my blog and showcase my works off in separate posts as then I can keep my blogs updated and together in one place. I may also look into creating a website that I can keep updated (I had started one in college yet I never finished uploading and editing) plus I also keep a Facebook page running with more of my works on their (CBurns Photography).


Cornelia Parker

In this introduction lesson we also watched What Do Artists Do All Day? featuring Cornelia Parker a installation sculpture artist.

She has a very positive working attitude and she plans ahead for the future so her time is planned and not being wasted.