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Brief
We want to see how you work with what can easily be defined as the most important aspect of good photography – light, and it’s opposite – shadow. You can really be open with this round. The theme is “Light and Shadow”, but the images can cover any kind of genre. Whether it’s light falling delicately for a portrait, using shadows for composition in street photography, sun beams casting a golden glow over a beautiful landscape – the choice is all yours.
£1,000 of SIGMA prizes, plus subscriptions to Amateur Photographer magazine to be won.
Prize details
Expert panel's winner: SIGMA will give the panel's winner £1,000-worth of prizes of the their choice.
Crowd winner: The community vote winner wins a one-year digital subscription to Amateur Photographer magazine, and a 1 year master-level subscription to Photocrowd.
The overall winner of APOY 2020 will receive £2,000-worth of prizes of their choice from SIGMA.
- prize values based on Sigma’s own RRP (as opposed to any dealer prices that might be discounted).
How it works
Every photo submitted will be available for the crowd to rate once the submissions period has ended. In this contest, the entries are hidden until the rating period begins.
Some contests on Photocrowd also have a judge. After the submission period closes the judge chooses their favourite images and writes some image reviews. The crowd and judge results will be announced on the same day.
- Entries closed
- 25 September 2020
- Rating
- 25 September 2020 to 9 October 2020
- Winners announced
- 9 October 2020
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