Comments on: Last Minute Thoughts On Print Competition http://skipsphotonetwork.com/2009/12/last-minute-thoughts-on-print-competition/ Marketing Consulting for the Photography Industry Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:01 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Chris Fawkes http://skipsphotonetwork.com/2009/12/last-minute-thoughts-on-print-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Chris Fawkes Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:26:50 +0000 http://mei500.com/blog/?p=2097#comment-333 Last year i had forgotten about WPPI being in Feb. It was a week before christmas when i remembered and i realized if i didn't have an entry posted by the 24th Dec i may not get in. I didn't have an image to enter so i came up with a quick idea and then called everyone i know asking to use their children asap. Eventually my friend Ruth agreed so next morning i was interstate setting up for a Lady and the Tramp style image. Being summer here we were going to be shooting at 9pm. That gave us time to get musicians and hire costumes etc as well as fit out the children. I was happy with the results after editing all night to 7am. Ready to send my image in for printing i realised all the pro labs had closed for Christmas. I ended up having the image reprinted 12 times at a 1 hour lab. The final results were very sub par, especially after getting it reprinted once the labs had re opened. But that was too late so i ended up sending the print in. The judges were gracious despite the printing, i expected to get bumped right out of the competition. My lesson was of course to never get caught out with bad printing ever again. It's not consistent with the effort we put into the rest of our image making and quality printing is so cheap. The other thing i have experienced is that local newspapers love to run a story on WPPI wins. It's terrific advertising and i run into people who tell me long after that they read those articles. Last year i had forgotten about WPPI being in Feb. It was a week before christmas when i remembered and i realized if i didn’t have an entry posted by the 24th Dec i may not get in.

I didn’t have an image to enter so i came up with a quick idea and then called everyone i know asking to use their children asap. Eventually my friend Ruth agreed so next morning i was interstate setting up for a Lady and the Tramp style image.

Being summer here we were going to be shooting at 9pm. That gave us time to get musicians and hire costumes etc as well as fit out the children.

I was happy with the results after editing all night to 7am. Ready to send my image in for printing i realised all the pro labs had closed for Christmas.

I ended up having the image reprinted 12 times at a 1 hour lab. The final results were very sub par, especially after getting it reprinted once the labs had re opened. But that was too late so i ended up sending the print in.

The judges were gracious despite the printing, i expected to get bumped right out of the competition.

My lesson was of course to never get caught out with bad printing ever again. It’s not consistent with the effort we put into the rest of our image making and quality printing is so cheap.

The other thing i have experienced is that local newspapers love to run a story on WPPI wins. It’s terrific advertising and i run into people who tell me long after that they read those articles.

]]>