photo5 Competition

Monday October 22, 2007 - 12:58 pm (2 years, 3 months ago)
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Last year, Canon ran a competition — Find Your Shot — in which I entered one or two photos. At the time, I was surprised to see the type of photos that were being considered as the “winners” of the week. My shots definitely weren’t the best, but it seems as though a popularity contest emerged as part of the competition and people were able to get their photos a leg up even though there were far better ones (again, not mine) submitted.

The winning shot doesn’t really grab me; as the gallery has been taken offline I can’t browse to see if there were ones I liked more, but I certainly don’t think it deserved to have won the photographer a $25,000 holiday.

However, Trav recently pointed me in the direction of a new competition Canon is running called “photo5“. This competition has a bit of a twist which makes it intriguing. The first twist (yup, there’s more than one) is that only the first 2500 people to sign up can even enter. That limits the chances a bit. The second twist is that you’re delivered a box of five “goodies” (a balloon, cellophane, chalk, some circles and the box itself) that you must use to take creative shots. And no, they don’t accept all five items in one shot.

The box arrived this morning, and I already have a number of ideas for the balloon, as well as one or two each for the boxes and circles (though they aren’t that great). The chalk and cellophane I’m a bit stuck with. Other than shooting through cellophane, which is what everyone will do I’m sure, I’m stuck.

Some of the ideas I have planned require a model (depending on the shot it’ll just be your hands, or back, or possibly part of your face) so if anyone is interested let me know. It’ll be fun!

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8 Responses to “photo5 Competition”

If you are REALLY desperate for a model … I’ll do it.
Richard on October 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm




That was the winning photo last year? Ick.
I was hoping I’d see my box today. Of course I haven’t actually thought about what I’m going to do with the props yet.
Trav on October 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm




Let me know if I can help! Can’t get into the site, so I am assuming all 2500 spots have been taken
Chris on October 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 pm




I checked last night, and the site appeared to be under a lot of load. Having a look this morning and it does seem all 2500 entries are closed. Strange since it opened around 3 weeks ago and it took that long to fill all the spots. I think I’m lucky that I managed to get in.
Maybe we could make it a team effort?
Mike on October 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 pm




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Innocent Bystander » Blog Archive » photo5 - the arrival on October 24th, 2007 at 9:52 pm




have you guys seen the entries so far?
gaven on November 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm




I did just have a look gaven, there are some good entries there but many of them are making me feel better about the ideas I had and the ones I’ve taken.
I might have to try and get them done (or at least started) this weekend.
Mike on November 7th, 2007 at 9:51 pm




i’ve seen some of the entries as well
yes and i agree some of them are good, but overall is a bit different to what i’ve expected.
gaven on November 9th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

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