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OD Photo Prize 2024
Grand Prize:
- £2,000 prize
- Includes £1,000 cash prize supported by Open Doors Gallery
- Includes £500 print credit supported by Metro Imaging
- Includes £500 credit supported by MPB
- An exclusive interview will be presented on the 1000Words Magazine website in conjunction with the Winner announcement
- Long term mentorship through Open Doors Gallery
- Listed on the OD Artist page & Artsy platform for at least one year, presenting available artworks from their submitted projects
- Exhibited in London as part of the OD Photo Prize group exhibition
2 x Runners-Up:
- Long term mentorship through Open Doors Gallery
- Listed on the OD Artist page & Artsy platform for at least one year, presenting available artworks from their submitted projects
Metro Imaging Mentorship Award:
- Tailored mentorship programme designed to support the awarded artist through any aspect of their career development which they deem vital
- A unique opportunity to gain ongoing 1:1 advice and guidance from Professor Steve Macleod, Creative Director at Metro Imaging, to help nurture and expand their practice
Juror’s Choice Award:
- Spotlight by an individual Juror in recognition of the strength of an artist’s work
- A dedicated text by their respective Juror published on our website
Successful entrants will be notified by email in mid-September 2024 with information regarding the following steps towards publication and exhibition.
Online submission of digital images via the website. Only 6-15 images per project submission is permitted.
Online submission format: JPG
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FOR YOU:
When you are picking your camera settings, it is critical to avoid overexposing highlights in a photo. The reason? It’s simply impossible to recover any detail from white areas of a photo. Personally, I prefer the sky in my photos to have nice texture and color, rather than being just a big, featureless blob, and I bet you do too. It’s pretty easy to keep your highlights intact. But this is where shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are so important. These are the only camera settings that directly affect the brightness of a photo (ignoring flash settings, of course). Even exposure compensation – an important setting itself – just tells your camera to change one or more of these three variables. When you’re taking photos, watch the camera screen to see if there is any overexposure. If there is, the first thing you should do is lower your ISO to its base value (usually ISO 100). If it’s already there, use a faster shutter speed. That will take care of the issue. As for aperture, make sure it isn’t set to a crazy value (f/32, f/45, etc.) and you’ll be good. If your camera is mirrorless and has a histogram or zebras, enable them. These tools allow you to check your exposure and more easily get a properly-exposed photograph.
When you are picking your camera settings, it is critical to avoid overexposing highlights in a photo. The reason? It’s simply impossible to recover any detail from white areas of a photo. Personally, I prefer the sky in my photos to have nice texture and color, rather than being just a big, featureless blob, and I bet you do too. It’s pretty easy to keep your highlights intact. But this is where shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are so important. These are the only camera settings that directly affect the brightness of a photo (ignoring flash settings, of course). Even exposure compensation – an important setting itself – just tells your camera to change one or more of these three variables. When you’re taking photos, watch the camera screen to see if there is any overexposure. If there is, the first thing you should do is lower your ISO to its base value (usually ISO 100). If it’s already there, use a faster shutter speed. That will take care of the issue. As for aperture, make sure it isn’t set to a crazy value (f/32, f/45, etc.) and you’ll be good. If your camera is mirrorless and has a histogram or zebras, enable them. These tools allow you to check your exposure and more easily get a properly-exposed photograph.
