DPP 5th Anniversary Photo Contest for LIVE JUDGING

[Nick Tuason]

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For those of you who have yet to attend a DPP Anniversary, our last program for the day is our notorious LIVE JUDGING. Here we take five or six professionals----like Raymund Isaac, Xander Angeles, Pilar Tuason, Jo Avila, Jay Tablante----and have them judge photos live in front of an audience. We also plow the judges with alcohol and also serve up the booze to the audience to get everyone nice and happy. Even intoxicated, our judges still see straight!

Well its that time of the year to once again announce our call for entries. For DPP's 5th our topics for the Live Judging will be:

1. Travel with a Human Element- make sure that your picture tells a story

2. Beautiful Girl- use your imagination

Please note that your image should have a TITLE and please give it a good thought. Having a proper matching title is a critical element in a photo contest.

If interested in joining, please upload your photos in the Photo Gallery for this event. You will find it HERE.

More notes:

• You can submit in both categories
• You can submit up to three photos in each category
• We will select the top 5 from each category for the Live Judging
• If we select your photo, you will receive an email from us
• Deadline for submission is May 25

Prizes:

• Guess what, we don't have any. This is a fun but yet serious event. What you do win is bragging rights for one year! Your photo will also get published in DPP.
• For the Travel Category, the Top-5 images will also be published in a future issue of our LONELY PLANET magazine.

Good luck everyone! Start posting those photos and we'll see you all on Saturday, June 4.

[Joseph.Sy]

wow... this will be good... nice topics..

[romzLopez]

the notorious part of the DPP anniv! hehehe... hope i can stay this time to see how the "entoxicated judges" will behave

[lesliechua]

I have been very fortunate enough to be chosen to be a finalist in the live judging before.

I didn't win, but to be chosen was a prize in itself.

Ok so some people are afraid to have their photo criticized, but it is a great venue to see where your photos are. There might be beer talk especially on the last few photos. But they will point out things you probably wouldn't have noticed.

For the newbies... i'd like to share my experience and maybe you can learn from it when submitting photos.

http://leslie13.multiply.com/photos/album/112/112




Sir Nick, perhaps a 1 year free subscription?

[Nick Tuason]

Leslie, I read your Multiply post and loved it. Glad to see that you weren't scarred from Live Judging and you took a positive experience from the whole thing. Yes, not everyone can stomach their photos being critiqued, however, if you have the fortitude, the experience and knowledge learned is priceless.

[GeraldBARIA]

Don't any of the sponsors want to put a prize on this? This is awesome, it should be bigger.

[jiggie.alejandrino]

@Nick, Travel with a human element, GREAT CATEGORY!

[Nick Tuason]

Don't any of the sponsors want to put a prize on this? This is awesome, it should be bigger.

Yes there might be some prizes. We won't announce it until the event though.

[GeraldBARIA]

Yes there might be some prizes. We won't announce it until the event though.

Ah ok. Its just that this is such an awesome event, this should be marketed bigger, maybe even eventually turned to a section on the magazine. Its a great booster for newbie interest, and education for the audience.

[louie niduaza]

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This is a very exciting.