Shooting for Competition Series – Using Judging Criteria to Shoot for Contests

Instructors: Bobbie Ray and Jack Migliore

Now that you know what the criteria are for PPA judging in photo contests, how to you take this a step further and apply it to the images you want to shoot?

Photographers shoot at the same places (a theme park for example); shoot the same thing (birds at the beach); or wander the same streets at events or markets. But how do they find and show something different? Something that will capture the judge’s or audience’s awareness? Everyone has seen many of the same images time after time.

Learn what really stands out to judges and how to incorporate these things into your photography.