Annual High School Shoot Out
32st
Annual High
School Shoot-Out
Deadline: February 28, 2014
The
Third Floor Photographic Society
proudly announces the 32st
Annual High School Shoot-Out, a contest for high school photography
students. The Society is a student organization within the Texas A&M
University-Commerce (TAMU-C) Photography Division. This year’s High
School Shoot-Out contest will be judged digitally on March 8th,
2014 on the campus of Texas A&M University – Commerce and the
winners will be announced on The Third Floor Photographic Society’s
web site (http://thirdfloorphoto.blogspot.com).
PRIZES
AND AWARDS:
Certificates will be awarded in both divisions. There will be a Best
of Show Color and Best of Show Black & White along with awards
for First, Second, Third, and Honorable Mention in all categories.
Winners of Best of Show in both Color and B&W and the top
Junior/Senior Portfolio winner will each receive a $750 scholarship
from the Texas A&M University-Commerce Art Department if that
student enrolls in the TAMU-C Photography Program as a declared
photography major.
ENTRY
FEES
are 50¢ per single entry and $5.00 per portfolio. Checks must be
made payable to the “Third
Floor Photographic Society”.
All entries must be post marked by February 28, 2014 to be eligible.
Mail to Texas Shoot Out Contest, Chad D. Smith, Dept of Art /TAMUC,
PO Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429
DIVISIONS:
FIRST
YEAR
(Students who have taken only one Photography Course)
Two
categories, B/W and Color. Note there are no sub-categories, i.e.
sports, landscape, etc.
Students
who submit entries in the First Year category can only submit up to 3
entries in both B/W or Color.
ALL
YEARS
(Student who have taken more than one Photography Course) Each
category will be separated into B/W or Color except for categories #8
*Digital Constructed Images & #9 **Portfolio.
Categories
1 - 7 are for individual images:
1.
Sports 2. Portrait/People 3. Landscape/ Nature 4. Commercial
/Still Life
5.
Architecture/Industrial 6. Photojournalism 7. Open
8.
*Digitally Constructed Images
9.
**Junior/Senior Portfolio 10 cohesive images from any junior or
senior high school student Subject of portfolio is open and should
represent the student’s best work.
RULES
AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
• Students
may not enter more than three images into any category but the
Portfolio category. Only one entry per student in the portfolio
category with no more than 10 images.
• Students
are encouraged to not enter the same image in multiple categories.
The judges tend to judge these photos more harshly.
*Digitally
constructed single images means that images have been constructed by
use of computer software. These images must have photographic
elements (such as originally from a digital camera, film image,
scanned materials, still-video frame, etc.); entries that are
composed solely of graphic-arts elements are not eligible. All
components of the entry must be the original work of the student.
**The
Portfolio category is a ten-image portfolio. These entries should
have 1-10 in the file name and count as a single portfolio entry.
• All
entries must be submitted on CD or DVD in JPG format. Note: All
entries from a school should be on a single CD or DVD with folders
for each Division, one Folder for First Year and one folder for All
Years. Inside the Division First Year Folder there should be two
folders, one labeled B|W and one labeled Color. In The Division All
Years folder there should be a folder for each category with a
subfolder of images for B&W entries and a subfolder of images for
Color entries.
•Division,
Category, Student name, school name, school city, and teacher name
must be typed into the metadata caption/description field in the File
Info window in Photoshop for every image. All images should be in
JPEG format, saved at maximum quality, with a maximum dimension
(width or height) of 2500 pixels.
