call for entry: Ceramic Shots Photo Competition

by | Jan 20, 2015 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Our next Ceramic Shots Photo Competition has the theme of knolling.
Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organisation. Click here for examples of knolling.
So, gather together your ceramic creations or collection, align or
square all objects on a surface in your studio and take a photo.
Please share this call for entries with your friends and colleagues.
Submit your image to The Journal of Australian Ceramics.

The Prize: publication of your image (full page) in
Issue 54/1 of The Journal of Australian Ceramics (JAC) AND books to the
value of $200 from our online shop OR membership of The Australian
Ceramics Association to the value of $200. The choice will be yours.

Conditions of Entry:
One image per photographer.
A selection of the best images will be featured in Issue 54/1 of The
Journal of Australian Ceramics (JAC) to be published on 1 April 2015.
Image format: 300 dpi jpg file, minimum size 1MB, maximum size 4MB. PLEASE DO NOT email tiff files.
Portrait and landscape formats are acceptable, although portrait images (24.5cm X 17cm) suit JAC’s format the best.
All photos must be accompanied by the following information: photographers name, potters name, location and date of image.
Photos must have been taken in the last 12 months.
By entering the competition, you give The Australian Ceramics
Association (TACA) license to publish the photograph in The JAC (print
& digital) and on our website, www.australianceramics.com and TACA’s
Facebook page.
Deadline for images: Wed 18 February 2015.
Images can be emailed to: [email protected] with the subject heading CERAMIC SHOTS: KNOLLING.

Regards,
Vicki Grima
Editor, The Journal of Australian Ceramics
www.australianceramics.com

Call for entry: Woodfire Photographic Competition in Conjunction with the 2nd European Woodfire Conference

by | May 16, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

 
Category
1. The View from the Kiln Shed (to include all or part of the kiln)
Category
2. The Kiln
Category
3. Firing
Entry
to the competition is confined to delegates attending the 2nd
European Woodfire Conference
Images
to be e-mailed to: [email protected]
Closing
date: 15th August 2014
There
will be an initial short listing of ten images in each category by an
experienced panel of judges
These
images will be printed and exhibited at the conference
Prizes
will be awarded in each category based on voting by delegates
A
selection of winning images will be published in a future issue of
The Log Book
Images
must be of a quality suitable for printing. Format: JPG, approx. 3000
x 2000 pixels, with a file size of approx 3Mb

Everyone
attending the conference is encouraged to submit entries for this
competition.

europeanwoodfireconference.blogspot.ca

Sponsored by:The Log Book

http://www.thelogbook.net/

technical tuesday: Emily Murphy

by | Nov 20, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Image via Emily Murphy

I’m sure you’ve all been over to Emily Murphy’s Pottery Blog. It’s fantastic to say the least. How that lovely lady does it all is beyond me. Yesturday she posted a great technical post about photographing your artwork. I know I’ve sat through a few photography workshops and I still need a re-fresher once in a while. So head on over to the Pottery Blog for:

how-to: make your own set-up for photographing pottery

Thanks Emily!