Hear ye, hear ye!
I bear tidings of a grand new contest for photographers and photomanipulators alike! Behold the Olorëa Photo-of-the-Month Contest.
Each month a panel of judges will select a photo from those uploaded to Olorëa the prior month as the Photo-of-the-Month. Photomanipulators will then have the rest of the month to create a graphic in which that photo or the main subject of that photo is featured as a prominent element. The winning Photo and Photomanip will be featured and shown off in the HW Art Gallery and a special post on the HW Blog.
The Photo-of-the-Month will be announced on the first of each month. All photomanipulators interested in submitting a graphic must do so by the twenty-third of that month. Submissions will work by posting the work in a Photo-of-the-Month thread in the Arts Guild. You can either upload the pic to a site of your own and post the link in the thread or upload to the Art Gallery and then embed it in the thread. Whichever works for you. The winning pic and photomanip will then be featured the following month on the blog and Art Gallery.
Rules for photographers:
- Your pictures must be submitted to Olorëa. To do that you need a WordPress account. Once you've registered, you must send the email address you used to register either to myself or Raven of the Wood.
- Photos must adhere to the Olorëa guidelines.
Rules for photomanipulators
- Your work must adhere to the same standards used in the Arts Guild and Art Gallery.
- The Photo-of-the-Month must be noticeably featured in your work. You can implement other stock images and effects, but the judges and viewers should be able to look at the photo and then see where it is used in your graphic without playing the hidden-pictures game.
- You must use either the whole photo or the main subject of the photo in your work. This goes back to the first rule about being able to identify how you used the photo.
- Simply retouching the Photo-of-the-Month is not allowed. While we're not going to go too hardline on the number, your work should probably contain elements from at least three images (including the Photo-of-the-Month).
- If you use stock images from sites other than Olorëa, be sure that you follow the original artist's wishes (credit them, give them a link, etc.).
We have been blessed to have five wonderful people agree to help judge this competition. The photographer whose photo is picked as the Photo-of-the-Month will get to help judge the photomanipulations, giving us a total of six judges. And they are:
Photo-of-the-Month Judges:
Jonathan Garner
Amanda Kondrael
Elly
Photomanipulator Judges:
Inesdar
BushMaid
(the photographer of the Photo-of-the-Month).
The contest will be a monthly event beginning July (next month). I'm really excited about this and can't wait to see the kinds of beautiful artworks that will come from it. I want to make it clear that photomanipulators and photographers of all skills are welcome. If you're a beginner or you've wanted to try your hand at photomanipulating or photography for a while but just haven't yet, this monthly contest would be a great way to cut your teeth
Blessings in Christ,
Jordan - Project head of Olorëa