Troubleshooting Your Competition Images

So you know the rules: there are the 12 elements, there are 5 judges and a JC You know the rule of thirds, and think you understand impact, color harmony, story telling, etc., etc. Then it happens. A person reads title of your image. The image flashes onto the screen. You can’t breathe. What a cool image! You are so sure this image will do well. Then the scores come in. WHAAAAT! A score of 77??? Why on earth? What did you miss?

Great questions. Join Ella Carlson, Master Photographer, Master Artist, ASP Fellow and Educational Associate, and five time PPA Diamond Photographer of the Year, for a 2 hour on-line program, “Troubleshooting Your Competition Images.” She’ll talk about how to avoid some of the pitfalls that will keep your images out of merit range, insights from a judging point of view, and she’ll also show you how to fix some of those problem areas with some pretty straightforward Photoshop techniques as well.

Submit your own images for feedback and make this even more customized. Just send them to Ella at least two days before the seminar and Ella will choose as many as possible to speak about.  No names will be mentioned. Email your images to ella@ellaprints.com or send them to her via dropbox or wetransfer and then tune in for your competition tune-up.

Bio: Ella Putney Carlson has worked as a photojournalist, a studio photographer, and continues to work as a fine art photographer and photographic educator. She has a master of fine arts degree from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and has earned professional photography degrees including Master Photographer, Master Artist, and Educational Associate. She has won numerous photography awards including the 2019 Grand Imaging Award for her album, “Most Wanted,” and the 2020 Grand Imaging Award in the Illustrative/Commercial Category for her image, “First Day of School on the Planet Luminata.” She has been a Diamond Photographer of the Year for the past 5 years. She teaches photographic imaging at the University of Mass.

Ella’s art has been exhibited in the Danforth Museum, Artistree Community Arts Center and Gallery, Vermont Center for Photography, Arts League of Lowell (MA), DeCordova Museum, Cove Gallery (Gloucester, MA), and the Professional Photographers of America

International Exhibitions. Her work has been published in several editions of the Professional Photographers of America Loan Book and Professional Photographer Magazine. Her book “Fine Art Photoshop” was published in 2017.

All registrants will receive an email with a link
to the live online event about 24 hours before the seminar.