Focus Contest: Sunrise. Sunset. A Case of the Diptych

In place of our normal #weekendphotofocus we’ve decided to mix it up a little bit and introduce something new to the site, our first regular monthly contest. We’ve been asked for several month’s about running a contest and we’ve decided that we’d give in. Like any contest you have to have something cool to giveaway, so we have a great first prize and also a runner-up prize.

1st Prize: Lens Baby Composer – Nikon F mount from our friends over at Lens Baby this lens produces some pretty neat effects. It is however for a Nikon F mount, but retailed at $270 you could trade it/sell it  for the one that is for your camera. At any rate, what you do with it after you get is in your hands. We just want to see pictures.

2nd Prize: Wiley Lightroom 2 Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process Yes we KNOW Lightroom 3 just got released, but if you are behind the times, or have never picked up Lightroom, here is an oppurtunity to get introduced to it. The book is meant for LR2 but its basics are applied to the series, and besides you can get LR2 pretty cheap right now.

How To Enter:

Submit: into our Fuel Flickr Pool, link in the bottom of this post, or tweet us. Just use the tag #FYPcontest (see submission guidelines below for further details)

Deadline for Submissions: UPDATE: CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO: July 31, 2010 12 MIDNIGHT EST – follow submission guidelines at bottom of post.

Winners & Submitted Photos Follow up: AUGUST 1, 2010

So you have you carrot, here is what we want from you, this months contest focus:

Sunrise. Sunset. A Case of the Diptych

We wanted to give you a focus that would allow you to spend time, create magic with light and get creative in the darkroom. The premise is simple, give us your best sunrise & sunset photos, one of each in the same photo frame, otherwise known as a diptych. Be as creative as you can, take your time and give us something special. Here are a couple great examples of Sunrise’s, Sunsets & Diptych’s (not necessarily all together, just use these for inspiration)

Sunrises:

Sunsets:

Diptych’s:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisiswhatisee/328425731/

Submission Guidelines:

Each Month we will post a Monthly Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #FYPcontest) on a certain subject, something to spark your creativity. An empty weekend for a photographer, is like an empty canvas, we could always use something to do when we have nothing planned right? So with this in mind we created this series, one that will get you out doing what you love. The premise is simple: snap some photos over the weekend dealing with the weekends focus, and if you send them to us, or Tweet them to us, we will post them for others to see. Having a focus will help us as artists & photographers see things that we might not always see, make us take a shot at something we might otherwise have not. In seeing other photogs chase after the same focus, it can only breed even more creativity in our own work.

At the weekends close, we will follow up our weekend focus, with what we found on the Web (including some of the photos sent from you) that falls in line with our focus. We hope you join in the fun and help us spread the creativity.

example of a tweet to us:

@fuelphotography One more submission for this week’s #FYPcontest New Life & Spring: http://bit.ly/aY1oC7

If you post your photo’s to Flickr, please make them shareable so that we can highlight you, or send us the photo & link to your work directly at:

ron @ fuelyourphotography.com