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AGENDA
• Important Dates
• Submitting Photos
• Voting Process
• Photo Tips from Angela Wu
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submissions have begun!
• Photos muse be submitted no later than 11:59 pm EDT on June 28
• Voting takes places noon EDT on July 15 and ends at noon EDT on July 31.
SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS
• Your organization may submit up to 3 photos from your GlobalGiving project page(s)
• Your organization may submit photos from multiple projects
• Your photos must relate to your project(s)
UPLOADING PHOTO(S)
• Here is how to upload a photo to your project page
Photo Courtesy of Awamaki
FINDING YOUR PHOTO’S URL
Here’s how you do that
Photo Courtesy ofAgros International
CATEGORIES
• Your photo’s category is automatically chosen using your project’s primary theme
Photo Courtesy of the Oregon Zoo Foundation
CATEGORIES
• 5 Categories – Give Knowledge (education)– Give Relief (health, disaster recovery) – Give Support (microfinance, humanitarian assistance,
children)– Give Hope (economic development, women & girls,
human rights, democracy & government, sport)– Give Green (environment, animals, climate change,
technology)
VOTING PROCESS
• An independent judge (Bud Force) will select the finalists
• Finalists’ photos will be uploaded on GlobalGiving’s website for voting on July 15
• Voters will vote on globalgiving.org using their e-mail address and verification
VOTING PROCESS• Each vote must be confirmed via email. Once a vote
has been made the voter will receive an email from GlobalGiving to confirm.
• Only upon confirmation will a vote be counted.
• An individual may vote for as many photos as they wish, but only one vote per photo will count as a unique vote
http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/v2/poll/photo contest-2012/
PRIZES
• The photo with the most unique votes will win a $1,000 bonus to support their work and will be featured on the GlobalGiving homepage for a full day
• The runner-up in each of the 5 categories will each be featured for a full day on the GlobalGiving homepage and will be highlighted in GlobalGiving’s social media outreach
PHOTO TIPS
I SEE THE LIGHT
• Natural sunlight– Early morning or
late afternoon/golden hour
– Windows
• Shoot with the light behind you
COMPOSITION FOR THE WIN
Regardless of what type of camera you’re using, this is what matters most and will set you apart!
FOCUS
BLUR THE BACKGROUND
RULE OF THIRDS
RULE OF THIRDS
LEADING LINES
DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS
DO WHAT YOU WANT
A FEW FINAL WORDS• Befriend your subject; tell a compelling story• Take multiple shots at multiple angles and
then delete the ones you don’t like• Rules are made to be broken!!!• Post-process to crop and edit aspects such as
temperature, exposure, contrast– Photoshop, Lightroom, Picasa, iPhoto
Questions?