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Shoot Proof will also honor our monthly First Place Winner in July!

6/28/2015

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Proofing Galleries
Create public or private galleries that work on any device. Clients can easily view, favorite and purchase images; the activity for each gallery visitor is viewable in detail to the photographer. Photographers use ShootProof for standalone galleries and we provide simple tools to integrate with their website.

Online Sales
Photographers can define their own products and prices for each gallery. Digital downloads can be for free or sale. Create custom discounts and promo codes. Clients can purchase from any device, including mobile phones. No commission fees, ever. Fast payouts for sales to any bank account (5 days) or via PayPal.

Your Branding
ShootProof client galleries are about your brand and your beautiful images; we provide simple tools to align gallery colors with your brand and never display our brand in your client galleries.
We both excited and feeling privileged to have ShootProof honor our monthly First Place Winners  this July with a free 1 year subscription of their 5,000 Photo Plan.

ShootProof is a small team of photographers, developers, engineers, perfectionists, and above all customer service fanatics. They  empower photographers to upload, share, sell and have products printed for their clients without taking commission from their sales. They are innovative and  focus on helping photographers increase sales while simplifying the proofing, buying and fulfillment process with their clients.

They started building ShootProof in 2009 with a vision for photographers to have a platform for beautiful online client galleries where they could share and sell photos with no commission fees. Tens of thousands of photographers across 32 countries are now sharing and selling millions of photos through ShootProof and they have never taken a commission

With simple, intuitive design and freedom of choice for photographers where you only pay for photo space in your client galleries, not sales. Their belief is that your sales are the result of your hard work, so we allow you to set your own prices and keep 100%. Even fulfillment with  lab partners comes with no added charges or markups. Choose the plan that is right for you right now, and move up and down between plans anytime, no premium or pro plans. There is even a free plan for beginners, with all of the features that the most seasoned pro will have. 

Upload
Easy uploading, storage and event management gives photographers full control.  Easy Upload from any web browser, the ShootProof Desktop Uploader or our Publish Service for Lightroom, all with your custom watermark.

Cloud Storage - Your original size image up to 50MB per photo is stored in geographically different locations for secure storage and you can get photos back at any time.
 
Gallery Control - Custom settings for each private or public gallery including optional expiration dates, passwords, digital downloads, prices, colors, lab choice, etc.
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Order Fulfillment
ShootProof provides digital download fulfillment and printing for client orders through the photographers choice of integrated pro labs or they can use an outside lab. Photographers receive an email with the details of each order and can easily approve and submit orders to our lab partners with shipping to any address.

Commission-Free
With ShootProof you will never pay a commission fee. We changed the game and removed the barrier that most other services have of charging 10-20% commission fees for photographers to sell their work.

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Custom digital albums for your clients that work on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8+.
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Miller's Professional Imaging will also honor our monthly First Place Winners!

6/26/2015

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A big welcome to Miller's Professional Imaging who will also  honor our monthly First Place Winner with a free 16x24 Gallery Wrap Canvas Print.    They are the largest professional lab organization in the United States and  provide professional prints and press products for professional photographers in all fifty states and Canada.

Since their inception, they have developed a reputation for having the highest quality products, customer service, and technologies in the industry, and are the preferred lab of professional photographers nationwide.

They have two amazing  labs in the US located in Columbia and Pittsburgh.

The Columbia lab opened for business in March 2001. It is an ultra modern, 44,000-square-foot facility designed to meet the needs of the digital photographer. The Columbia facility supports prints, proofing, albums and books, as well as press products ordered through stand-alone or online versions of our free proprietary software. A full array of other print finishing services such as mounting, coating, and texture are also available. A total of 100,000 files a day are routinely received by the Columbia lab. The staff reaches 160 team members during the busiest times of the year.

The Pittsburg lab is an 88,000-square-foot facility with products and services primarily supporting Professional Wedding, Portrait, Sport/Event, and School photographers. Poised to support traditional film capture, as well as digital files, the Pittsburg lab houses film processing, school, sports and events, mounting and finishing services, and the Mpix division.  In 2009, more than 20,000,000 digital files were received in the Pittsburg lab with over 16,000,000 of these files belonging to Mpix. The Pittsburg staff is made up of approximately 300 members during the peak season.

(The Canvas Gallery Wrap prize is currently only available to US and Canada entrants)
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BBC Discover Wildlife

6/22/2015

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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!
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This is your opportunity to share your images on our website.

You’ve no doubt marvelled at our professional photographers’ pictures in the magazine and now on www.discoverwildlife.com, but we know that you are a talented bunch with some astonishing photos and we would love to see them.

Simply upload your images each month and then vote for the images you like best.

Each month the BBC Wildlife team’s favourite images are featured in the Your Photos pages of the magazine and those with the most votes may even be showcased in our two-weekly e-newsletter.

The BBC Wildlife team may also choose up to 20 images, which will be published in photo contest online galleries at www.discoverwildlife.com

The overall winning image will be chosen by the BBC Wildlife team and will feature as the main image of the online photo contest gallery after the contest has closed.

We can’t wait to see what you can do.
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Tiger Camera 2015 Photo Contest 

6/18/2015

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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!
We want to look at the world through them, if only for a moment. We want to share the way the world looks through your eyes with other people – who look at the world in their own ways, through their own eyes. And we want to give you a chance to look at the world through their eyes.  

That’s the essence of Tiger Camera.

A place to share visions
Tiger Camera began in 2012 as a place for people from all over the world to share their visions in the form of photographs of the things they love – the things they find beautiful, meaningful and important. Every year we run a competition that’s open to absolutely anyone who can pick a camera and take a picture.

This year’s competition – Borders
This year, Tiger Camera is looking for personal, creative, and inspiring interpretations of the theme Borders: Where does the border lie? Is it inside us or out? Shall we move it, or cross it? Does it inhibit us or set us free? Do we create borders in our own hearts or do others create them on a map?

An eye-opening prize

The competition is judged by an internationally acclaimed jury, which changes every year. And the winner receives a valuable –eye opening – prize. This year it’s a trip to Japan! Plus his or her photograph is published along with the 50 best pictures in a photo book that’s sold in Tiger stores the world over.
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Zenfolio Software will also honor our monthly First Place Winner!

6/13/2015

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We both excited and feeling privileged to have Zenfolio honor our monthly First Place Winners  with a free 1 year subscription of their Award-winning Premium service.

Voted "Best Web Service" they provide the complete range of services that any Photographer or Studio would need to take their business online.

Website & Blog
Your complete portfolio and online client proofing website is ready as soon as you open an account. There is no coding necessary to create a beautiful website with plenty of design options and customizations in just a few clicks. Impress your friends and clients with your gorgeous, professional website.

Homepage
The homepage is the first page your viewers see, so make it unforgettable with professionally designed layouts. Include a navigation menu, welcome message, your logo, photo thumbnails or music to make your website personal. Everything is customizable, so you can create a website just as unique as your photography.

Select Your Design
Choose from a wide selection of themes and layouts professionally designed to elegantly highlight your work.

Design Your Own Theme
The Zenfolio Theme Designer enables you to have full control over the graphical elements of your website with simple point-and-click tools to customize text, buttons, backgrounds, and much more.

Launch Your Online Store
Turn your photographs into beautiful prints and photo products that are ready to order directly from your site. With the Zenfolio e-commerce platform, you have the features and flexibility to get from shooting to selling in no time.

500+ Products to Sell
Take advantage of our integration with the best print vendors in the industry. Just choose your products, name your price, and Zenfolio will take care of the rest.

Self-Fulfilled Products Options
Fulfill your own orders at any lab you wish. Zenfolio will notify you when your clients place orders with all the details, notes and instructions.

Digital Downloads
Sell digital downloads directly from your site. Simply specify the resolution, choose a license agreement and set your price.
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Beautiful Galleries
Your photos and videos have never looked better online. We’ve made it our goal to deliver the best possible viewing experience on any device.

Elegant Presentation
Let your photos take center stage and present your work in one of our professionally designed layouts. The special dim-the-lights mode shows large images without distractions so visitors can truly focus on your photography. And your photos will look great on a mobile screen as well as a large monitor.

Social Media Sharing
Built-in social media sharing to Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, and Twitter on your pages makes it easy for you and your visitors to promote your work. You can even export your watermarked images directly to your favorite social networks.

Client Communications
Schedule emails to your entire contact list or just to visitors of certain galleries. Send news and promotions to encourage referrals and boost sales. You can even send reminder emails to visitors that have unpurchased items in their cart.

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World Palm Portraits 3RD Photography Competition

6/12/2015

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Palm Portraits will again take place this year for the third time with a new name World Palm Portraits Photography Competition to reflect that it is open to all avid photographers,  internationally. With the tagline "Discover Nature's gift", pictorial compositions showcasing the various perspectives and unique attributes of palm oil, from people & portraits, to nature and wildlife, as well as fine arts are welcomed.


Palm Portraits is a photography competition by Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), which is meant to increase awareness on the ubiquitous nature of palm oil through the beauty of imagery.

The competition first started in October 2012 while the announcement of selected winners, from an impressive 600 submissions, took place during Palm Oil Leadership Award Dinner 2013. It was again held last year in 2014, with submissions reaching almost 1000.

Categories:
Nature & Wildlife
People & Portraits
Black & White
Fine Art & Photo Manipulation

Each Category has a Prize of:
2,000 USD  and 1,000 USD



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Habitat World Photo Contest 

6/10/2015

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Enter the Habitat World photo contest for a chance to build at the 2015 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

Photographs are some of the most powerful ways we can share Habitat’s stories. We always love to see yours.



To enter our 2015 Habitat World Photo Contest, follow @habitatforhumanity on Instagram and post your photos depicting Habitat’s mission and impact with the hashtag #HabitatPhotos. 
 
Our “Editor’s Choice” winner will be awarded a spot as a volunteer at the 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, which takes place Nov. 1-6, 2015, in Pokhara, Nepal.

We’ve also added a new category: “Viewer’s Choice.” The Viewer’s Choice winner will receive a $100 gift card to the Habitat online store.
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  The Sixth Annual Great Outdoors Photo Contest

6/5/2015

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Our free photography contest recommendation of the day!

The great outdoors offer endless scenic opportunities and bring in amazing images from around the world. In its sixth year, our most popular photo contest inspired by the great outdoors is still going strong and is now accepting entries.

Outdoor Photographer invites you to submit your best photos of outdoor locations from around the world for your chance to win publication in an issue of Outdoor Photographer and great photography prize packages!

Entry deadline is June 25, 2015.

First Place Package:
  • Publication of the winning photo  in Outdoor Photographer
  • Online publication of the winning photo in the Winners' Gallery
  • A Off Road Hiker 30L backpack from Manfrotto
  • A VEO 265AB tripod  from Vanguard
  • A Strobist® lighting kit from LumiQuest
  • A 32GB Professional 1066xx CF memory card from Lexar
  • A Compact HoodLoupe from Hoodman USA
Second Place Package:
  • Online publication  of the winning photo in the Winners' Gallery
  • A VEO 235AB tripod  from Vanguard
  • A Starter® kit from LumiQuest
  • A 32GB microSDHC 633x UHS-1 memory card from Lexar
  • A Lens Cleanse 12 pack kit from Hoodman USA
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