Photo taken by @juancarlos1175
I just want to let all of you know that I have started running a witness for the steemit platform. If you want to know more about my witness intentions, you can check out my Witness Announcement Post or vote for @derangedvisions here. One of my goals with the witness is to be able to use the Steem generated from running the witness to be able to support the photography community more, but I won't be able to do that without witness votes. Every witness vote cast for me helps me be able to reward all of you more in the end. All of your support is truly appreciated. Anyways, end of plug and onto the competition.
Let's see those Portraits
Portraits can be tricky to get good pictures of. It is all about getting the perfect shot without making it looked staged. It can be difficult to get people comfortable in front of the camera, but once you them feeling comfortable and they forget the camera is there, then you can get some great shots. I am looking forward to seeing your great shots that you are going to share.
NOTE - We have had a lot of newcomers to the contest recently and some have not been reading the rules in their entirety. Only ONE submission per contest is allowed. Please do not enter more than once. If you see other people doing it, feel free to comment to them and inform them of the rules.
Photo taken by @akirachang
How is the Deranged Photography Contest set up?
The contest will be broken up into three different tiers. Each will have a different payout for the winners based on what tier you enter into. Here is a breakdown of the winning based on the tiers:
| Place | Professional | Amateur | Beginner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1.25 SBD | 1 SBD | 1 SBD |
| 2nd | 0.75 SBD | 0.5 SBD | 0.5 SBD |
| 3rd | 0.5 SBD | 0.25 SBD | 0.25 SBD |
Each contest will be open for submissions for 5 days after the post is made and then closes at 0100 UTC (1800 MST) on the 5th day.
This will give me and any guest judges time to judge the submissions and create the post announcing the winners.
How to enter
When you enter a photo in the competition, you will state what tier you want to be judged in and locked in for the month at that level.
For example if you enter a photo, you drop the photo in the comment section, state what level of photographer you are, and then give a description of the photograph.
If you want to make your own post and reference the contest in your post, that would be awesome, just remember to post your picture in the comment section along with your post link. Who knows, you may get a visit and an upvote on your post as well as an upvote on the picture. Use the tag #derangedphotography to make it easy to find your posts.
Additional Notes
This contest is in its early stages and as time goes it things may need to be tweaked to benefit the group as a whole to make it a more fun experience for everyone.
Only one submission per contest. Extra submissions will be ignored.
You can switch your tier ONE time per month, but only if you are moving up into a higher tier, for example if you are currently in the amateur tier, but you think that you have a photograph that you want to enter in the professional tier, you can state that you are changing your tier to professional. You will then be locked into the new tier for the remainder of the month. You are not able to move down to a lower tier, like going from amateur to the beginner tier.
If you do not state wish tier you want to be judged in for the month, I will leave a comment to remind you to do so, but if you don't respond, you will be assigned to a tier and locked in for that month.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated in any form. All submissions must be your own work. I will investigate every entry and one of the main sponsors is the @steemcleaners team, so if you are caught plagiarizing, not only will you be blacklisted from competing from any future contests, but you will be reported to Steemcleaners as well. It is not worth it to try and cheat, especially with the 3 tier set up where everyone has an equal shot of winning.
Deranged Photography Contests also has a discord channel that you can meet fellow photographers and keep up to date with all of the latest news that is going on with the contest. You can join at this link:
Who are the amazing sponsors?
One major sponsor to the contests is @pfunk. For those that don't know @pfunk is a very active witness on the platform that is doing a lot behind the scenes to ensure that your user experience is a smooth one.
@pfunk aids in the process of new account set ups, a big part of Steemit Chat, and a part of the @steemcleaners team. @pfunk also is a huge supporter of the Open Mic contests run by @luzcypher.
You should seriously consider casting a witness vote for @pfunk.
Another major sponsor is @czechglobalhosts. For those that don't know, @czechglobalhosts puts on two daily photo contests that are open to anyone to enter. His contests cover the entire globe so that anyone can enter. The days and themes are:
- Australian Monday
- Antarctica and World's Oceans Tuesday
- African Wednesday
- European Thursday
- North American Friday
- South American Saturday
- Asian Sunday
On top of the themed daily continent contests, he hosts a daily travel contests specific to the beautiful country of the Czech Republic. So make sure to follow @czechglobalhosts and participate in his contests because he is offering two daily photography contests that you can enter to win.
The other sponsors I have are @guiltyparties and the @steemcleaners team. @guiltyparties and everyone else behind @steemcleaners does so much for the platform as a whole, trying to reduce the spammers, phishing and plagiarism that goes on here. If you have any free slots for witness votes you should consider casting a vote for @guiltyparties, vote for @patrice, vote for @anyx, vote for @pfunk, vote for @pjau, and vote for @arcange. Your votes for these great witnesses go a long way in ensuring the platform continues to thrive.
I would also like to welcome @ats-david as another amazing sponsor to the contests. He is an awesome photographer himself and runs several of his daily own contests over on @brospn-contests. If you are a sports fan, you definitely need to check out those contests. He is also the brains behind @brospn where you can stay up to date with anything sports related. He works tirelessly to make sure everyone is informed with what is going on in the sports universe. On top of all of that, He is a witness for the Steem blockchain. So if you have free witness votes you can vote for @ats-witness here vote for @ats-witness
If you would like to become a sponsor and delegate SP to the Deranged Photography Contests you can do so by clicking on the following links:
50 SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP,5000SP.
Now get out and start shooting
I hope you are all excited about this new contest. The contest themes will be different than what you are used to seeing on Steemit, and I am doing this to encourage everyone to get out and shoot new pictures. If you are a life long professional nature photographer, some of the themes may push you to try and learn something new. If you are just a beginner photographer, this is a great place to have fun shooting all sorts of exciting styles and learn in the process.
Photo taken by @paniczklos
I am looking forward to seeing all of your great submissions. Have fun taking those pictures!!
Nothing can break the soul bond between Twin Flames
What is actually is making different between a simple snapshot and a true photography? Especially in the case of people photography (it can be just street, either portraits, etc) it is story telling. And this is in fact much more difficult to get such a result when the viewer can see true story in your photo - compositional, emotional, whatever...
This is one of my really best of recent photo where you can see the story and connection of those beautiful twins. Hands position, slight touches, emotions - everything is bringing us into the inner world of twins, showing their true and unbreakable connection between each other.
And combined with a very soft look of manual focus vintage lens with stunning bokeh (also adding certain impact to the story)
Enjoy the double beauty!
https://steemit.com/portraitphotography/@axeman/nothing-can-break-the-soul-bond-between-twin-flames
Great shot @axeman. I love the bokeh on this lens.
Thanks, mate! Yeah, as mentioned this bokeh made the trick...
Tier: Professional
https://steempeak.com/photography/@revo/deranged-photography-contest-portraits-of-people
This shot is amazing. Very well done!
Thanks @derangedvisions
This is cleeeeean! :) Awesome shot. Post processed or in-camera look?
Thanks mate. Post processed. If you follow the link to my post you can see the original colour shot.
Totally tired from a 2 hour morning surf session on Bali.
Tier: Amateur
that´s a great shot for sure ~ ✨ ~ :)
thank you @whimsical-magic
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i have a love/hate relationship with portraits. do love candids but most of the time they are great for the person in the photo but not spectacular for the fotocommunity. This one is from a photo marathon in Jasa Tomic.
Hi @derangedvisions,
This is my entry for this contest in Amateur Tier.
My Love, My Wife, Mother of my kids
She is my love, she is 4 years old younger than me. We got married last year, and now, we have a daughter. Although there are many harder things waiting for us in the future. But I hope we still love together forever.
Best,
beautiful smile!
Tier: Beginner
Here the pic of my flatmate Ignacio. We call him Nacho, he's 26 and studies translation German <-> Spanish. I love the guy. He's all about fighting consumism, has just severar clothes pieces and actually washes them manually with hands :D On the pic he's sipping his beloved favorite hot drink - Yerba Mate.
When I was on my trip shooting for the book last month, we had a lady from Argentina with us. She was always drinking Mate. I recognize that straw, lol!
Great shot.
Hahh yepp, it's called bombilla. He got me one and I tried to replace my coffee habit with mate as it also has coffein in it...ended up drinking same amount of coffee + mate on top of it now :DD
I am a beginner! What a cool contest! There is an amateur working toward professional in my family, will inform her about this :p
Description: Kids make the best faces. I feel like there is some accidental symbolism in this picture, probably revolving around soda drinking.
Great shot. Kids do make some priceless faces. I am looking forward to seeing what other entries come out of your family. Welcome to the contest.
I took this photo of Alexa while we were exploring an abandoned estate in Portland, Oregon. The light was harsh but we found this darker area next to the hot tub that resulted in the photo you see below.
I'm forever a beginner meaning I have so much to learn but for the sake of the contest, I'll enter as pro.
Here's my entry for this one:
https://steemit.com/derangedphotography/@vanj/portrait-of-cyrus-yash
My first entry to #derangedphotography :) Auto timer it like a pro! :D 2017 Selfie, Halloween in Japan, framing by eye using Sony a6500 without a flip out screen!
Tier: Beginner
Nice shot, but I am bumping you up to amateur.
Here my entry and link for the wonderful contest: https://steemit.com/derangedphotography/@himalayanwomb/portraits-of-people---deranged-photograp-2018-07-19-15-56-44
Tier: Beginner
Wow, these are some really nice portrait pictures! Will definitely participate in one of your upcoming contests! Thanks!
Well, I said I was going to start submitting to your contests, and what better way to start than with the category I'm least comfortable with - people portraits? I've only taken a handful of portraits that I really liked, but here's one of them, of a woman some of us here will recognize.
I guess I'm in the Pro tier, even though I'm not a portrait pro.
Awesome black and white. Great shot.
Thanks, Wes!
This is a photo of me taken on a night out in Palma de Mallorca with my Fujifilm camera. I am entering as an amateur. Thanks for the cool contest
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https://steemit.com/derangedphotography/@nickyprescott/portraits-of-the-people-big-wig
We realized that we don't have many random people portraits. Seem like we rather take animal portraits more than people haha
We'll try to change that and start shooting random street photography more often.
Here's a little fisherboy from the Venezuelan Andes. He was too shy when he saw I was shooting him so I went a little farther to catch this good one.
PS: We'll make a post with more pictures from that moment and edit this comment to add the link 😁
Get into the Amateur Tier
hope it isnt too nudist ^^
Hi, this is my entry to the contest.
This photo is taken during a trip to the Bolivar State, in the city of San Felix; where a river overflowed and flooded a town in that region, completely flooding and the access that there was to reach that town, which is a road, still the one who knows the road can get to a certain point of the road and enjoy of a landscape, and to bathe for a while the cars arrive, until some distance above the level of the water where the road or road leading to the town is, I hope you enjoy this photograph.
amateur level.
Even princesses pick their nose!
https://steemit.com/derangedphotography/@mumma-monza/even-princesses-pick-their-nose-portraits-of-people-deranged-photography-contest
lol, this is amazing! Such a great picture!
A Woman Resting at a Street Corner | Salvador, Brazil
Does this count as a portrait? If not, I'll submit a more composed one. :)
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An emotional utterly ˋraw´ self-portrait that will not be considered ˋconventionally beautiful´ by many —
for me it is so much -MORE- than that as it is a perfect representation of my intense most vital struggle to withstand the blazing emotional abuse of my youth and life... hanging on to my own ˋmagic power and spirit´ like a willful little reptile indeed :)
{….Category Amateur....}
Greetings friends of Deranged Photography Contests Here I leave my entry. I hope you like them
Fun fight
Beginner
Begginer.
https://steemit.com/derangedphotography/@helena-malaja/portraits-of-people-deranged-photography-contests
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