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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jinky on May 04, 2015, 08:22:42 AM

Title: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: jinky on May 04, 2015, 08:22:42 AM
Entries open

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/twppp-2015/exhibition.php?dm_i=ZL4,3CWZV,JGFCZ8,C0HW2,1
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: Reinardina on May 12, 2015, 06:06:01 PM
Bump
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: ABERS on May 12, 2015, 07:24:11 PM
Waste of time R. Too many opponents for the competitive element on here ;)
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: DigiDiva on May 12, 2015, 09:11:23 PM
Abers........behave yourself. Minx.
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: Beaux Reflets on May 12, 2015, 09:50:35 PM
Posting a link to the TW is not a waste of time in my opinion - However viewing the previous winning shots I was not really blown away by any particular portrait.

Are these sort of competitions kind of a lottery? - what tickles the organiser's fancy to maximise publicity and future profit from the rising entrance fees.  As I don't generally do portrait photography I would have to produce a real humdinger of a shot to give me the confidence to enter at 27.00 quid  :o  a go.
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: Hinfrance on May 13, 2015, 07:55:27 AM
I could never take anything controversial enough to win. But I do like to look at entries.
Title: Re: Taylor Wessing prize anyone?
Post by: jinky on May 13, 2015, 09:44:41 AM
Nor me H. I only put the link up because so many looked at it / mentioned it in previous years and had views about the images. I like to see what is around myself and it does get press coverage. I have entered competitions with bigger numbers than the TW attracts but the difference was they were free. Must admit I like the idea of trying some portraits a little bit outside of what I normally do but I shoot just for me and family / friends now rather than a wider audience other than the forums / groups I am in.