Wootness | the blog of christine walsh-newton
master photographer | photographic craftsman | certified professional photographer
If you compete in PPA photographic competitions on a district level, and if your image scores an 80 or above, it earns a “Seal of Approval.” Oooohhh, seal of approval, that sounds so fancy. I have to admit, when I started in print competition, I couldn’t wait to get a peek at one of those …
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So, in the last article, I mentioned (!) that I was waiting on a comp print and was pretttttttty nervous about it. UPS arrived with the print, FINALLY, at 6:30 PM last night. What the heck is up with that? Those dudes work SO late sometimes! Anyway. The print arrived. Everything in my life stopped …
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I’m sick. I’m “oh.em.gee. I just dropped my $3500 body on the cement floor and watched it smash to pieces!” ready to hurl. I’m waiting on a comp print to arrive from the lab. I ran some tests, I ordered 8x10s and different finishes until I thought I’d made the correct choice for how to …
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All hail, another article about Print Competition! Hear ye! Hear ye! Recently, I taught a Print Competition 101 class. I was allotted 90 minutes. In reality, I spoke 120 minutes and still wasn’t done. I could have talked an extra hour. And that’s sad. It seems we’ve created a barrier to print competition with the …
Ahhh Facebook, the land of “one cannot unsee what one has seen.” All of you photographers who enter print competition are familiar (or you should be) with the fact that if you share your images with a judge, they are no longer allowed to judge your images and must disqualify themselves during the judging process. …
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Oh hello! Yes, the truth is out, I’m addicted to Print Competition. I write about it, I talk about it, I design speaking gigs about it and I schedule my vacations around it. If you consider annual convention print room setup days as “vacation,” like me, I’m here to tell you you’re addicted, too. When …
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It’s that time of year, again. The PPA International Print Competition (IPC) is August 12-15. By now, all entries have been submitted by photographers throughout the world and the PPA headquarters in Atlanta, GA has hundreds of print cases being unpacked and readied for the judging. Hundreds of photographers like myself are just a little …
I’ve recently been working on some print competition images, so I thought this would be a good time to share my “12 Elements of Wootness.” These 12 elements are part of a lecture that I give to professional photographers on print competition. They are loosely inspired by the “12 Elements of a Merit Print,” as …
