To enter our photo competition, simply email us your photographs along with your name, telephone number and address to competitions@internaldoors.co.uk.
The closing date for the competition is midnight on the 9th July 2014. All winners will be notified by email within 48 hours of the competition closing. A Few Helpful Tips!-
Try to get your subject to fill the frame and cut out as much wasted space as possible.
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Use the light you have available whether natural or artificial. Light will create interesting shadows and details on your subject.
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Take lots of photos and then take some more! This will give you more to choose from when you’re looking back over them at the end.
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Avoid a busy photograph. Focus on one item and make it absolutely clear what your subject is.
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Don’t get carried away with arty angles. They can look great but in most instances, less is more. A conventional angle will usually provide the best result.
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Crouch or kneel to get a better and more even perspective. This will give your image straight edges and avoid unusual angles.
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Consider using shade to show your subject’s details and features
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Break your photo down into horizontal and vertical thirds. Use the centre section as your frame to get an even, well framed picture.
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Try to get a clean and clear background to make sure the focus is entirely on your subject.
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Have fun with it! The end result might not work but after trying more conventional pictures, go a bit wild and try something interesting and original.
Guidelines To Consider
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Photos should be high quality and no more than 10mb in size
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We would like to see both portrait and landscape versions wherever possible
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Make sure the products are in situ (in their setting in your home, not fresh out of the box!)
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Please don’t use any photo filters like instagram
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Please don’t use a fisheye lens
As a guide, photos should be high quality and no more than 10MB in size. We are looking for both portrait and landscape photographs of products in their setting in your home. Good luck!
Terms and Conditions:
- The first prize is £200 cash, the second prize is a £100 cash and the third prize is a £50 cash.
- Entrants must send their picture(s) along with their name, address and telephone number to competitions@internaldoors.co.uk. Failure to do both will result in exclusion from the draw.
- You must be a resident of the United Kingdom in order to be eligible for the competition.
- Entrants can submit as many photos as they like but only one photo by any individual entrant can be included in the final shortlist.
- Images may be digitally enhanced to remove spots or scratches, but not manipulated. Entrants can enhance the picture to make it brighter, clearer etc, but not manipulate the content. Internal Doors and the judges reserve the right to exclude any image they believe may have been excessively treated so as to alter its authenticity.
- Employees of Internal Doors, their immediate families, press, agencies, sponsors and commercial partners or any other persons directly or indirectly connected with the competition are not eligible to enter the competition.
- The winners will be chosen from all valid entries. Images will be judged on originality, composition, overall impact and artistic merit.
- The winners will be notified by email within 48 hours of the competition closing.
- The winners will then have seven days to respond. If the winner does not respond within seven days of receiving the winning email, another winner will be drawn.
- The Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The competition will run from 21/05/2014 - 09/07/2014.
- All images submitted must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other photographic competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entrants must warrant that the photograph they are submitting is their own work and that they own the copyright for it.
- Copyright in all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the Competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to Internal Doors to feature any or all of the submitted images in any of their publications, their websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition.
- Internal Doors are compliant with the data protection act. Our policy is such that we will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent.
- Entry and participation in the competition shall be deemed an unconditional acceptance by you of these Terms