As many of you know, I am a member of WPJA or Wedding Photojournalists Association. This association is a group wedding photographers who use photojournalistic skills in most or all of their wedding photography work. The association has also expanded to help out future brides, as well. I was accepted into this group of select photographers a while back, and I use this service mainly for advertising on the internet. There are other kinds of services that are offered to photographers, such as quarterly wedding image contests, group discounts, etc.
Well, I have been meaning to enter some images into the quarterly contests being offered, but I have been lazy in my attempts. I hate these types of contests because it is always hard for me to figure out which images I want to select to enter. Also, I have to figure out how much I want to spend to enter because every image submitted for the contest costs money, regardless of if they win or not.
There is also a sub-association under WPJA called AGWPJA or Artistic Guild WPJA. This is where you get to enhance your images through photoshop and submit them in for contests that are outside of WPJA contests (You are not allowed to enhance any images for WPJA contests). Since AGWPJA is more along the lines of the style I produce, I finally got the nerve to enter in the contest for this quarter.
Well, the results are… ok. I didn’t place in the top 3, nor did I place in the top 10, but i did place in the top 20 of two of the eight categories. I won’t win a prize, but at least I found out what the judges are looking for, and I know how to improve my work for the next contests.
Here are the links to the results:
Here are the images that placed.
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