Fw: Sports Shooter Annual Contest
From: Robert Hanashiro <bert@sportsshooter.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:58:39 -0800
To: Robert Hanashiro<bert@sportsshooter.com>
Subject: Sports Shooter Annual Contest
Sorry to send this out to the mailing list ahead of the monthly newsletter, but I thought the announcement about the Sports Shooter Annual Contest is important enough to risk the wrath of you Newsletter subscribers.
For those of you --- especially students! --- that are not members of ss.com, this is another reason to join.
I hope that the new contest will be a great way to recognize the best of sports photography in the past year and that can only happen if you enter.
If this email is scrambled, you can check out the story on ss.com at:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/2475
For details on joining ss.com, check out this page that explains the process:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/join.html
And if you do not know a current active member to sponsor your application to the site, no worries! It is very easy to join ss.com /sans-sponsor/:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/join_nosponsor.html*
*Deadline to enter the Sports Shooter Annual Portfolio Contest is Feb. 20, 2010. And if you live in Southern California, the finals will be judged in an event open to the public host by Fullerton College on March 13. Details on that cool event will be posted on ss.com next month.
ALSO --- If you are interested in attending the Sports Shooter Academy Lighting Luau, we had several dropouts, so there are spots available. They will go quick. For info on the workshop and the on-line registration page, go to this link:
http://sportsshooteracademy.co
Mahalo!
Annual Sports Shooter Contest Details Announced
New format for pros and students: Sports Portfolio. Read the details of how to enter.
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter Newsletter
By Robert Hanashiro, Sports Shooter Newsletter
Big changes for the Sports Shooter Annual Contest!
This year we will be holding a sports portfolio competition to determine the best "Sports Shooter" of 2010 Š The Sports Shooter Annual Portfolio Competition is born.
Rather than several individual categories, this year we will have just two: Pro and Student. For pros a portfolio must contain a minimum of 12 photographs and no more than 20 (the limit for the ss.com Hidden Gallery feature); for students a minimum of 10 photographs.
Portfolios should exhibit the photographer's versatility and contain a variety of images to that end.
All images must have been taken in calendar year 2010. Long-term picture story projects included in a portfolio can contain images made before 2010 but must have been published in 2010.
Who can enter
Since submissions will be via the SportsShooter.com Hidden Gallery, only SportsShooter.com members are eligible to enter the contest.
You must be a member of SportsShooter.com in good standing at the time you submit your entry and at the time of the contest judging.
Note: If you are currently not a member of ss.com or had your membership lapse, as long as you become a member before the contest deadline, you are eligible to enter.
Categories
There are two categories: Pro and Student.
To enter the "Student Category" you must have been enrolled full-time in school when you made the photographs in your entry. Or working in an internship and not graduated from school when you made the photographs in the entry.
All others should enter in the "Pro Category".
Deadline
Submissions to the Sports Shooter 2010 Portfolio Contest is midnight Pacific time February 20, 2011. (Note: The day of the NBA All-Star Game.)
Entry submission
To enter the contest, you must build a portfolio through the SportsShooter.com "Hidden Gallery" feature.
Step-by-step:
1) Build a gallery: Go to your member page and follow the instructions to build a hidden gallery of your best sports images of 2010. Make sure to resize the images to the recommended specifications for ss.com galleries.
If you are logged into ss.com go to: http://www.sportsshooter.com/createfolio/index.html
2) Name the portfolio: The naming convention is - Pro or Student underscore your member number. (Example: Pro_21 OR Student_ 6280)
To find your member number, check your SportsShooter.com member page to see the number at the end of the url. (Example: http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=21 )
3) Important note:
SET BACKGROUND COLOR TO BLACK
SET TEXT COLOR TO WHITE
SET LINK COLOR TO WHITE
4) Captions: Each image must have a complete caption. Remove bylines and publication references.
Example: 10/30/10 --- Los Angeles, CA: Oregon Ducks wide receiver Jeff Maehl (23) celebrates his first quarter touchdown against USC at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The #1 ranked Ducks rolled to a 53 - 32 win.
5) Double check your entry especially captions, naming convention, background, text and link colors.
6) Click the create portfolio button.
7) After the gallery has uploaded return to your ss.com member page and go to the Hidden Gallery area; click on the "download gallery to hard drive" link for the contest portfolio you just created. It will create a Zip file on your computer. DO NOT make your contest entry gallery public.
8) Email the Zip file to: SportsShooterContest@gmail.com
In the Subject line, type in: Student or Pro followed by your member number
(Example: Pro 21 or Student 6280)
9) In the body of the email, type in your full name, whether the entry is pro or student, who you shoot for/school you attend and the URL of the gallery.
(Example: http://www.sportsshooter.com/bert/contest_entry/ )
(If you are not on staff or work regularly for a publication or organization, just list yourself as "freelance".)
Including sports picture stories:
Picture stories that are sports or athlete - based can be included in your contest submission. Up to 10 images can be included as part of a picture story.
(Keep in mind that you have a total of 20 images in your entry portfolio.)
In the first photo of the picture story, write a brief synopsis about the picture story before that image's caption.
Use the same title for each of the photographs in the picture story so the judges know it is a picture story.
Prizes
The top winners of the Sports Shooter 2010 Portfolio Contest will receive cool prizes. PhotoShelter has donated memberships to their cool service. Other prizes will be announced next month once they are confirmed.
Judging
Judges will be announced next month. Any controversies or discrepancies with entries will be settled by the contest judges and are final.
Finalists in the contest will be judged March 13, 2011during an event that will be open to the public. The judging will be held at Fullerton College. Details will be announced next month.
The "fine print"
Failure to follow the rules could result in your entry being disqualified.
Digitally altered or over-manipulated images will be disqualified. Do not over-saturate, over-sharpen or alter your entry images. Any use of Photoshop or other image software should fall within the boundaries of standard editorial policies.
SET BACKGROUND COLOR TO BLACK
SET TEXT COLOR TO WHITE
SET LINK COLOR TO WHITE
4) Captions: Each image must have a complete caption. Remove bylines and publication references.
Example: 10/30/10 --- Los Angeles, CA: Oregon Ducks wide receiver Jeff Maehl (23) celebrates his first quarter touchdown against USC at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The #1 ranked Ducks rolled to a 53 - 32 win.
5) Double check your entry especially captions, naming convention, background, text and link colors.
6) Click the create portfolio button.
7) After the gallery has uploaded return to your ss.com member page and go to the Hidden Gallery area; click on the "download gallery to hard drive" link for the contest portfolio you just created. It will create a Zip file on your computer. DO NOT make your contest entry gallery public.
8) Email the Zip file to: SportsShooterContest@gmail.com
In the Subject line, type in: Student or Pro followed by your member number
(Example: Pro 21 or Student 6280)
9) In the body of the email, type in your full name, whether the entry is pro or student, who you shoot for/school you attend and the URL of the gallery.
(Example: http://www.sportsshooter.com/bert/contest_entry/ )
(If you are not on staff or work regularly for a publication or organization, just list yourself as "freelance".)
Including sports picture stories:
Picture stories that are sports or athlete - based can be included in your contest submission. Up to 10 images can be included as part of a picture story.
(Keep in mind that you have a total of 20 images in your entry portfolio.)
In the first photo of the picture story, write a brief synopsis about the picture story before that image's caption.
Use the same title for each of the photographs in the picture story so the judges know it is a picture story.
Prizes
The top winners of the Sports Shooter 2010 Portfolio Contest will receive cool prizes. PhotoShelter has donated memberships to their cool service. Other prizes will be announced next month once they are confirmed.
Judging
Judges will be announced next month. Any controversies or discrepancies with entries will be settled by the contest judges and are final.
Finalists in the contest will be judged March 13, 2011during an event that will be open to the public. The judging will be held at Fullerton College. Details will be announced next month.
The "fine print"
Failure to follow the rules could result in your entry being disqualified.
Digitally altered or over-manipulated images will be disqualified. Do not over-saturate, over-sharpen or alter your entry images. Any use of Photoshop or other image software should fall within the boundaries of standard editorial policies.
Winners will have their portfolios posted on SportsShooter.com and will be featured in a story in the monthly newsletter.
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