Photography Competitions

1. Registering a “reaction” as a measure. Photos of buildings, inanimate objects – even those too often, an apartment, filthy, “scene” on their sentiment. However, the perception of someone or something, an action on the outside is much more dramatic pendulum, for example, in a hailstorm, a football player tackled, flags in the wind, so imagine how much more the images below you would be if the part of the answer to something was deleted.

2. One of the most powerful technical director Steven Spielberg uses is the orientation of the camera is not on the ‘amazing’ thing is happening (shark, UFO, German regiment etc.) but on the proximity to the reactions of different characters to see things. It’s like the first indication of a reaction to photograph, not action.Spielberg, action, excitement, terror or astonishment. The public may be the source of these emotions, much more powerful than the whole truth visual.Alfred Hitchcock this technique very well, so you in good company, if you can master. For example, instead of shooting fireworks New Year (ho hum), a young girl at the age of 3 years to see the reaction – in close-up – the now powerful!

3. Are your images have the “X-Factor”? We are all fascinated by the extraordinary. Most of us lead relatively predictable lives, where our perception of extreme in our interview, for example, as a film in which a man like a bat to fight against criminals and the police believe that That is cool, and work with him! Are your images extreme and exceptional?

4. With your image and not as a visual ‘plane’, but as a set of plans or sections, the ideas for other.To with a crude example, a photo of the water’s edge on a sandy beach ( Layer 1). Add a soldier died on the sand in the foreground (level 2). About one of the soldiers be removed by a surfboard with running water to surf (Layer 3). What types of messages and themes were the layers of the bottom of this hypothetical image? In this context, however, make sure that the eye knows where in your composition!

5. The issue of stereotypes. It is noteworthy that the thematic ideas before shooting begins, so you know – and provides a chance “magic” of course – what you. Playing with clichés and subverting them can be quite cool. Some examples can be overly madeup blond “Bimbo” in a process of reading the Wall Street Journal, a priest reading The joy of sex or a rich and successful celebrity of the formula, with a bicycle or an old horrible wreck the car to move, etc.

6. The word “photography” literally means “light-image.” Participation is so great, that photography is not really an image or theme, but rather on how the light on these images and themes. Ago a big difference between these two concepts. The first focuses on the ‘thing’ in the image. It recognizes, as the light “wash over” the “thing”, it is visually interesting. So when you shoot, the sweat Sting or an eagle or a car tire, it is the nature and quality of light that will, by a large picture. This is an important factor, which has great photos of jurisdiction.

7. Enter the contest! This show, but you only have a chance, competitions you enter. It is not enough. It is not enough thinking. It is not enough to dream. None of these is very good, if you attack your shooting and customs seizure of winners of the competition, as they say
only – not to pass.