The Sant Bani Photo Slam

WHEN: OCTOBER 8TH – OCTOBER 22ND 2010

The photos are in! The judges are warming up! We will post the winners shortly.

This is an exciting opportunity for all the students and staff at Sant Bani to take part in a photo contest. All you need is a digital camera and a computer to email your images to the school. If you do not have a digital camera, perhaps you could work with a family member or a friend. You may use the school computers to mail in your pictures if you do not have a computer at home.

You may enter your photos under the following five categories:

CATEGORIES
1. Portraits: These can be of anyone…or anything…like your pets…or a beautiful (or ugly) flower…

2. Landscapes: These may only be in black and white. You can easily alter your colored photos using a free program like Photoshop or Picasa.

3. View: from above or below

4. Things with circles: What happens when you look through a bicycle wheel or a long tube?

5. Manipulated images: using computer software

RULES
You may email three images to Sunny Bunny Photo They can be from any of the categories above. You can email more than one photo from a category, so really there is only the limitation of three photographs. Though the Landscape category requires black and white, any photo can be black and white. Unless photos are entered into the “manipulated” photo category, no changes can be made to the photos except to change them from color to black and white.

When you email the photos, you should be sure they are labeled as to which category they are for. Make sure your name is in the email but not your age or grade because the pictures will only be judged on their visual merit.

We will have two people from outside of the Sant Bani community and one from the school to judge the photographs. The top three pictures from each category will be printed, framed and hung in the gallery.

You will have only a short time to complete this project, so get started right away!

Think about composition.
Think about dark and light.
Think about interesting or unusual subjects.

Ask your parents or siblings (sisters and/or brothers) for help.
Follow the directions carefully for each category.