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2025 Annual Image Competition

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VPPA's Annual Image Competition will open on 12/1/2024 and close on 2/4/2025

Image Competition Judging is scheduled online for Sunday February 9, 2025
Image LIVE CRITIQUE online Sunday February 10, 2025



Go to: www.printcompetition.com to enter!


Enter Image Competition

Participating in VPPA's image competitions gives you the opportunity to:

  • Engage with the passionate and supportive photographic competition community
  • Improve upon your finest work
  • Earn recognition and admiration from your peers
  • As a result, improve your business

Entry Fees

  • $20 per image or album registered between 12/1/2024 - 1/5/2025 at 11:59PM
  • $30 per image or album registered between 1/6/2025 - 2/4/2025
  • Live Critique is $15 per image or album. May be added 12/1/2024 - 2/4/2025

Final Deadline

 

All entries must be finalized by 2/4/2025

 

Rules & Guidelines

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See rules & Guidelines for all the information you need to enter VPPA's Annual Image Contest! 

 

12 ELEMENTS

 

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Impact - Compelling images evoke emotion—laughter, sadness, anger, pride.

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Technical Excellence - The quality of the actual image as presented for viewing. Aspects such as retouching, sharpness, printing, color, and exposure should be spot on.

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Creativity - The image is original, fresh, and an external expression of the maker’s imagination.



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Style - The subject matter meshes with the presentation. Style can also include the characteristic ways that an artist applies his or her specific lighting, posing, or compositional style to underscore the desired impact.



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Composition - The visual elements of an image come together to express intent, whether that’s to please the viewer or otherwise. The viewer’s attention is captured and directed where the artist plans it to be.


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Presentation - The way an image is showcased gives it a finished look. Everything in the presentation—mats, borders, color choices—should work to enhance the image.  


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Color Balance - Color work together to evoke feelings in the viewer. For example, it can bring harmony to an image and enhance the emotional appeal. It can also be incongruous to arouse diverse feelings.


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Center of Interest - This is where an image’s creator wants a viewer’s attention focused. There may be primary and secondary centers of interest. Sometimes all the elements in an image work together to create the center of interest.


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Lighting - The image demonstrates excellence in the use and control of light, whether natural or additive. Light informs dimensions and shape, sets tone and mood, and enhances the image.


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Subject Matter - The subject matter is central to the story being told, so the subject should sync with the story.


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Technique - The approaches used to create the image—lighting, posting, capture, presentation—work together to be effective.


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Story Telling – The image evokes the viewer’s imagination. While the act of creating is a personal thing, so too is the act of viewing. Each image is a story, and the one it tells a viewer may be unique to that person. 


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For more information:

 

Andee Moore, Image Competition Co-Director – andee@reallifeevents.net or (804) 222-4111 (studio)
Jamie Hayes, Image Competition Co-Director –  jamie@hayesandfisk.com (804) 740-9307 (studio)

 

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Come be part of the “Club 79” and watch as the images are judged while you sit, stand, pace and cheer! Registration for Image Competition is already open, so be sure to go to PrintCompetition.com to enter your best work. Image competition makes us all better at our craft and gives us inspiration for the upcoming year, so don’t miss this awesome opportunity.

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