Yesterday wrapped up the 2016 PPA International Print Competition! This is compared to the Olympics for Photographers each year! This year they had over 6000 entries from all over the world! Judging started Sunday night and ended a little after noon Thursday!
I am excited to finally be able to share with you the 4 portraits that I entered this year! Because of Facebook and all the other social media outlets when you decide to enter print competition you must keep your images "under wraps" until after the competition is over. This means that sometimes it can be close to a year before we can share our favorite images if they are being entered in the state, regional and international competitions! If a judge knows who the image belongs to they must disqualify themselves from judging the image! As a entrant you want to have as many judges judge your work to get the best shot at scoring higher!
So here are my four entries for this years international competition and a little bit about each of them.
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| "A Vintage Elegance" This one I have had WELL over a year and it was a killer not to share it! In the session that this portrait was taken I also made another (completely different) set of images. They were intended to be used for competition (and were) and this one was not. However, I loved what we created with this portrait. It felt artistic and creative and stylish and light and I truly loved everything about this! As much as I wanted to send it in to the competition I could not because there is a rule that you cannot use the same subject in two images or they will be disqualified! So I had to choose and I had put a ton of time into the other image so I decided to keep this one on the back burner for another year and use the other image of her instead. It paid off both years! So here it finally is in all its glory! I still love it! I will have a post about how I made this one later on! (Thank you to my good friend Joanne for gifting me this gorgeous vintage gown! It is yummy!) |
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| "A Debutante's Elegance" This is another image that has been simmering on my hard drive for months! This is another one that I got two totally different looks from her session. This was from the portrait part of the session, the other images I took were for a conceptual piece (you may recognize her from the "Living the Highlife" image of the girl sitting on the giraffe). So again, I had to choose which image to enter last year (the giraffe won out) and hold onto this one for this year! As hard as it is for me to do that it usually pays off! She did her hair and makeup for this one brought the top and then I had the large tutu that I had made sitting on one of my mannequins so I grabbed that and used it for this image! I love the way this came out and she is gorgeous! |
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| "He will always be close to my heart" This young lady had modeled for me before (she was the girl on top of the bed in my "Princess and the Pea" piece). I photographed her the first time by chance because I had a girl cancel at the last minute and she was my neighbor, so I called her to see if she could come over! She is not a model, but she is great to work with. I have a collection of vintage clothing/gowns that I pull from on occasion and this was one of those times. Then, I took a piece of tulle to drape around her. She did her own makeup and I teased her hair and pinned it up into a low side bun. We created this image which the minute I took I knew it was "the one".  This one was taken LAST summer. I have been holding on to this one for a long time knowing that I would probably enter it in at least one competition this year. This one was hard for me to hold onto. Luca was visiting friends from Germany and came to my studio for an artistic portrait session. As you can see she was amazing to work with and we had many incredible images to choose from. But this was one of my personal favorites! Her outfit was something I literally pulled together while she had her makeup done. It is simply a few yards of tulle that I wrapped around her to look like a gown. Then I took another bunch and pinned it to her head with bobby pins!
I hope you enjoyed all of the images as much as I enjoyed creating them! Have a great weekend!
In Love and Light,
Nylora :)
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