5th Lensbaby Photo Contest with the Theme Creative Bokeh
Join now! deadline to submit photos will be Dec 17, 2007 at 12 Noon, PDT.
All of us at Lensbabies’ HQ have been noticing your really creative photos using our Creative Aperture Kit and/or apertures you’ve made yourself. Your photos have inspired us to hold another contest with the Creative Bokeh in mind.
We hope to see you turn up the creativity knob and present us with more awesome photos and maybe even get outside of the heart and star shapes (hint, hint!).
Thank you for making this such a friendly and inspiring forum and good luck in the contest!
On Dec 10, 2007, we invite you to enter the 5th Official Lensbaby Photo Contest, which has the theme of Creative Bokeh.
Lensbabies and “Bokehâ€:
One of our favorite aspects of Lensbaby photography is the smooth, beautiful out-of-focus areas created by the perfectly round openings in the Lensbaby’s aperture disks. These out-of-focus areas are known as bokeh (Japanese for “blur.â€)
Lensbabies developed the Creative Aperture Kit to give photographers more control over the bokeh in their images. Our kit contains one f/4 star, one f/4 heart and 5 blank aperture disks. You can use a sharp blade or scrapbooking punches (available at most Art & Craft stores) to custom-cut the blank apertures into any shape you wish; The out-of-focus specular highlights (bright points of light) in your photos will take on the shape of the opening in your aperture disk.
Please Note: The Lensbaby Creative Aperture Kit works with Lensbaby 2.0 and Lensbaby 3G, but does not work with the Original Lensbaby. Original Lensbaby users can participate by crafting their own custom apertures out of plastic, paper, carboard, or other materials.
With this contest we hope to challenge Lensbaby photographers to come up with the most creative and most effective use of creative apertures. As always, innovation is encouraged, and we are hoping to see a wide range of interpretations of Creative Bokeh. The final deadline to submit photos will be Dec 17, 2007 at 12 Noon, PDT.
Judging for Lensbabies Creative Bokeh Contest:
The contest will be judged two ways. First, we have invited Jack Howard, Online Technology Editor of PopPhoto.com/Popular Photography & Imaging, to be our guest judge. In addition to Jack’s judging we will also have a Popular vote judged by all members of Lensbabies Friends.
Judging Criteria:Entries will be judged on originality, visual impact, technical proficiency and adherence to the theme “Creative Bokeh.” Contestants may use aperture disks from Lensbabies Creative Aperture Kit, or homemade creative aperture disks. Photographs taken with standard, perfectly round Lensbaby aperture disks are not eligible for competition.
About Jack Howard:
Jack Howard is Online Technology Editor of PopPhoto.com/Popular Photography & Imaging, where he tests and reviews cameras, lenses, software, camera bags and other camera gadgets. Jack has written an eBook on High Dynamic Range Photography for O’Reilly publishing and is currently working on several how-to book pitches. He is also an established freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Asbury Park Press, The Star-Ledger and many other newspapers, after a stint as a staffer at the Asbury Park Press from 2000-2003. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Corey and their German Shepherd dog, Bailey, a beta fish, Flash, and more camera gadgets than you can shake a stick at.
Judged Prize:
Jack Howard will be judge the entries to see who gets our 1st place Judged Prize, which is a Manfrotto 2-718B tripod and a one-year subscription to Popular Photography.
Popular Vote Prize:
The Popular Vote winner will also receive a Manfrotto 2-718B tripod and a one-year subscription to Popular Photography Magazine.
Please note: In the event that the Judged First Place and the Voted First Place are the same, the Voted prize will be awarded to the 2nd highest vote-getter.
Contest Timeline:
* Starting now: get busy taking on the theme Creative Bokeh
* December 10-17, 2007 Noon, PDT : uploading of photos from a new page that will be created in the Lensbabies Friends section of Lensbabies.com
* December 17, 2007: Gallery of submitted images posted to Lensbabies.com
* December 17-20, 2007: Judging by Jack Howard and voting for the Popular winner by Lensbaby Friends users
* December 21, 2007: Winners announced
Judging Criteria: Entries will be judged on originality, visual impact, technical proficiency and adherence to the theme “Creative Bokeh.”
Contest Rules:
1. Entries must be taken using a Lensbabies lens on an SLR camera. Limit one entry per person.
2. Entrants may enter the Fifth Official Lensbaby Photo Contest by uploading digital images directly to the Lensbaby website. Digital files may be uploaded from December 10-17, Noon, PST, on a new page that will be added to the Lensbabies Training Center. For this contest, we will use a blind submission process, and the uploaded files will not be available for viewing until the judging phase.
3. Images must be taken by the person submitting the file and must fulfill the theme of “Creative Bokeh” as determined by the Lensbabies, LLC and its representatives. At the discretion of Lensbabies, LLC, images with the photographer’s name embedded in them will be taken out of the contest.
4. Images are required to be no bigger than 800 pixels wide on the longest side.
5. Winners will be notified on or around December 21, 2007.
6. On acceptance of 1st place prizes, you will give Lensbabies non-exclusive rights for one year to use your name and the image on the Lensbabies.com website as deemed appropriate by Lensbabies. You must also certify that you hold the rights to grant such permission.
7. Taxes, if any, on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prizewinner.
8. In order to vote for the Popular Vote winner, you must be a registered participant in the contest or a registered user of the Lensbabies Friends Forum. You may only vote once. Your vote can be changed up until the end of the voting deadline.
9. All Photos must be taken with a Lensbaby lens!
10. Failure to comply with and accept all of the preceding rules will disqualify any entry. ;-(
Happy Shooting!
The Lensbabies Team
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