In honor of Veterans Day, I'll be hosting a photo challenge right here on the blog! Be sure to have your cameras ready and take images to show us how you celebrate Veterans Day! This opportunity is open to all of our current students at AIPOD. If you're a faculty member or an alumni of our school, encourage our current students to participate! The winner of the challenge will have their image published on the First Years Focus and Fire blog! Follow the instructions below to learn how to submit your photograph to the challenge:
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| Fiander, Melanie, US Army: Gold Star Pin, 2015. |
- Take a bunch of photos from your Veterans Day celebration; photos must be taken between 12:01am and 12:59pm GMT on November 11th, 2015. Please do not submit photos that were taken outside of this time frame.
- When taking your photos, ensure that you are shooting RAW files so you can edit the images with ease afterwards.
- Be sure to consider the basics: Lighting, Composition, Exposure, Content, and Focus!
- Choose one top photograph and edit the image using Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop.
- Adjust image size to be 10" at the largest dimensions at 300ppi.
- Save file as a JPEG and label it as "Last Name_First Name_Veterans Day".
- Upload your photo to Flicker, PhotoBucket or similar hosting website; uploading your photo to one of these websites will provide you with a URL link for sharing (For example, your URL link will start with "https://www.photobucket.com/...)
- Copy and paste the URL link into a comment under this blog post. Do not post your URL link to the announcement in our Google+ PSPN community). Scroll down to the bottom of this blog post and click on the words, "1 Comment" (or x-number of comments). A pop-up window will appear for you to past your URL link into.
- Include your first and last name, a title for your photo, and a brief description of the subject matter and content (meaning) in your comment.
- Be sure to preview your comment prior to publishing it; double check that the URL link is in tact and works properly; double check spelling and grammer within your descriptoin.
- Last but not least: have fun with this photo challenge!
To ensure that you have a few days to look at your photos, choose one great shot, and edit the image, the due date is: Friday, November 13th at midnight GMT! Late posts will not be accepted for the photo challenge. I'll
be reviewing the submissions for the photo challenge and will choose
the strongest photo as the winner shortly after the challenge closes. Good luck!
1 comments :
Write commentsJennifer Binford
Reply"The Vist"
Veterans Day
November 11, 2015
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I originally had gone to the Veterans Cemetery to take pictures of the boy scouts placing flags on all the grave sites. As I was walking through the looking at the names on the headstones, I noticed a man sitting on a lawn chair. This old veteran was sitting next to his wife's grave. He had brought her flowers and was having a conversation with her. I found myself welling up with tears as strangers walked through the rows of graves to shake his hand and give their thanks and to chat a min with him. Eventually everyone left and there he sat at her graveside chatting with her on his visit.