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photo5 Competition

October 22nd, 2007 - 12:58pm

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!

Tags: canon eos 350d, competition, photo5, photoblog, photography