contests
BLIPOINT CONTESTS: Periodically we organise diverse contests, where blipoint members publish their images representing the published subjects. We have a prestigious panel of judges at our disposal made up of professionals from the worlds of photography and graphic arts. There are three types of contests:
Gallery contests: We differ from the rest of the social networks in that we give our members the opportunity to showcase their work in the artistic spaces of avant-garde cities. The winners that participate in this gallery contests section will be able to exhibit their images as a prize. Blipoint carries out all of the organization of the exhibition, its set up, its coverage in different media, and also provides printed material to announce the exhibition. We also film a video and take photos of the inauguration, have a cocktail to open the exhibition, and give a certificate to the winners. In the finished contests section you can see photos and videos of all of the past exhibitions. We give all of those artists in the photography, illustration, and graphic design sectors the opportunity to enter the art world and make their works known.
Online contests: We have the support of manufacturers and companies in the photography and graphic arts worlds, which participate as sponsors of our online contests. All of those members that publish their images participating in the different subjects, and are chosen as winners will receive products from the photography and graphic arts sectors as prizes.
Premium Contests: We have created this prestigious contest section, where the two concepts of gallery and online contests come together. The winners exhibit their images in the art spaces of avant-garde cities; we also publish books with the winning images, and award items from the world of photography as well as cash prizes.
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Contest FotoNature: Since time immemorial the landscape has served as inspiration for artists. Painters, engravers, and artists in general have always tried to capture the unsurpassable splendor of a beautiful landscape. And photographers are not excluded from this obsession to capture the beauty that nature offers us. No professional or amateur photographer exists that, at one moment or another, has not felt the need to photograph a beautiful landscape.
This contest invites you to show the best landscapes that you have captured with your camera. It doesn’t matter if they are landscapes in color or in black and white. Demonstrate how original and creative you can be at the moment of capturing this natural wonder.
There will be a pre-selection of the first 100 images by way of the voting system. Then, a qualified panel of judges will select the 23 images.
The Blipoint team wishes you luck!
Date of participation: from 20/03/2013 to 22/07/2013
Voting process: from 22/07/2013 to 02/09/2013
Contest closed: 02/09/2013
Participation: FotoNature
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2nd Edition of the PhotoMobile Contest: Today photography has changed 180 degrees. Since the great step from analogical to digital we have been involved in many changes that have made photography accessible to everyone. We don’t see telephones with cameras anymore, now they are practically cameras with built in telephones. The Blipoint team has the pleasure of introducing you to our new era of Mobile Photography contests. We invite you to participate with images that have been taken exclusively by mobile devices. The application that you used or the filter with which you decided to enhance the image are not important. We will be evaluating: content, emotion, editing, composition, and point of view. Let your creativity fly. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional or amateur photographer, and remember that you no longer have an excuse. If you don’t have a camera, it doesn’t matter. With your Smartphone you can take great photographs.
To participate it is necessary that you download our new (App Blipoint Android and iOS) and upload the images with which you will participate.
Prize:
• First prize: 500 euros cash to the author of the best image. * The prizes will be subject to deduction from the corresponding income tax, according to current legislation.
• Second prize: 2nd Ddition of the PhotoMobile Contest. In this 2nd edition, 5 winning images will be selected and displayed in the Maxo Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. There will be 4 editions of the PhotoMobile contest, and in each edition there will be 5 winning images, for a total of 20 images that will be displayed in the Maxo Gallery.
• Third prize: The authors of the 15 winning images, will have as prize being a Premium User for free one year. For more information regarding the premium gallery: http://blipoint.com/premiumInfo.html
• Fourth Prize: Publication of an eBook and printed book of all the winning images of the four editions Mobile Photo Contest. The book will be published during the first quarter of 2014.
Date of participation: from 10/04/2013 to 10/06/2013
Participation: 2nd Edition of the PhotoMobile Contest
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Photo Contest: Images where you can´t see the details of the main object, using natural or artificial light, placed behind the subject, are able to transmit a harmonious composition, full of contrasts. Show your creativity through your images. Remember that it is important that your photos have the good composition, point of view, emotion, rhythm, and other elements of expression that make up an excellent image.
Don’t limit yourself. The technique you use is not important and you can participate with color or black and white images.
There will be a pre-selection of the first 100 images by way of the voting system. Then, a qualified panel of judges will select the 15 images.
The Blipoint team wishes you luck!
Date of participation: from 21/01/ 2013 to 10/06/2013
Voting process: from 10/06/2013 to 29/07/2013
Contest closed: 29/07/2013
Participation: Backlit
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Photo Rain: Rain represents and transmits diverse emotions in each and every one of us. For some of us, it represents nostalgia, and for others, it is simply relaxing. It transmits different types of feelings to us.
Transmit, through images, what you have been able to capture during a rainy day, or the traces that this has left behind - wet streets, splash-marked glass, umbrellas that come and go, or simply a stormy day. You can participate with your works created from illustrations or photographs. Show us that, to you, a rainy day is much more than an atmospheric phenomenon as we mentioned at the beginning.
First prize: of 3.000 dollars cash to the author of the best gallery.
Second prize: there will be an exhibition in Spain of the 21 winning galleries that have been selected by a qualified panel of judges, from the first 100 pre-selected that have acquired the greatest number of votes, in Maxó Gallery from 20 to 27 February 2014.
Third prize: 15 winners will receive a free one year membership as a Premium user.
Date of participation: from 14/05/2012 to 10/02/2014
Voting process: from 10/02/2014 to 14/04/2014
Contest closed: 14/04/2014
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Voting system will take place in 3 stages:
First stage:
• Once the contest has been published in the web, the participants can publish their images that represent the contest’s concept. In this stage, you will only be able to publish images and make comments. No voting will take place.
Second stage:
• The participation period ends. You will not be able to publish any more images in the contest, and the voting period with the new star voting system starts: with this type of voting system, you will only be able to vote once for the image that you like best; the votes cast by users with a complete profile and that are active in Blipoint will have more value; the votes cast by those users that register and immediately vote for the image will have very little value. In this way, the users that have more friends will not end up in first place. The voting will be done by the actual photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, and individuals that are active in the Blipoint community.
Third stage:
• Once the contest has ended, the qualified panel of judges will make the final selection of the winning images.
Traces of Smoke: Smoke is the suspension of small solid particles in the air that results from the incomplete combustion of a combustible.
It doesn’t matter where it comes from – cigarettes, tobacco, incense, machines, bonfires, motors, etc. Everything is valid; it just depends on how you manage to capture these images that allow you to open a new world in your imagination.
Traces of Smoke invites you to show, through images, the beauty and aesthetic richness that can be created by the trajectory of this physical phenomenon.
Publication period: from 01/04/2011 until 20/06/2011 Voting process: from 20/06/2011 until 11/07/2011 Contest closed: 11/07/2011
The authors of the 20 winning images, will have as prize being a Premium User for free one year. For more information regarding the premium gallery: http://blipoint.com/blog/premium-gallery/