The deadline for the Emerging Photographer Fund grant is officially moved to April 1, 2009….
This is a two week extension from the original March 15 deadline date….
The Emerging Photographer Fund is a $10,000 grant to be awarded to a photographer to continue a personal body of work….
Initiated by BURN , the EPF operates under the non-profit status of the Magnum Cultural Foundation .
Details for applying for this grant can be viewed in the upper right hand corner of BURN….
Finalists will be announced on or before May 1, 2009. The recipient of this grant will be announced on or before June 1, 2009..
PLEASE do not send private e-mails regarding this grant nor ask procedural questions on your entry submitted through Photoshelter. The high volume of entries makes it impossible for me to answer.
If you follow the very simple guidelines for entry, your work will be received and viewed and considered carefully.
You may ask any last minute questions of me right HERE in the comments box….
-david alan harvey
I not sure I did everything correctly. I didn’t see a space for a description of the project, I placed it in the email invitation. Please let me know if I need to do anything differently.
Thanks….. Ed Yanowitz
I found the description space, should be OK now…… Ed
CARLOS…
a short description is all that is needed for this first round of selection…
I shared my lightbox in February- I have made changes since, added captions etc. Have you been culling the work? or will you view the lightbox for the first time after April 1 deadline?
Thank you, Graham
hello,
I have exactly the same question as Philip, from March 26th……
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I have uploaded my work on photoshelter and shared it with EPF (I hope), but in my lightbox, there is no way to see the pictures in a big or even a medium size. It is something like 400 pixels wide. Is it ok? From the lightbox, does the jury have access to the galleries and see the pictures in a wider size? Because I guess jurors won’t download all the pics to see them.
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Also, if you can’t see them larger, do you need us to make sure they are available for download?
thank you!
toni
TONI…
the photographs are large enough for the preliminary jury to judge…as was written in the original announcement, finalists will make a blurb.com book for jury selection…..
Re: description- The photoshelter lightbox allows 500 characters (not words). This seems insufficient to detail the project we’d like to continue. Is this the expectation? Thanks,
TIM…
of course this is insufficient space to explain a long project…as i have written in the instructions for submission, this first round will take the portfolios down to a group of probably 25-35 finalists….the jury can quite easily judge the overall net worth of a project by first seeing the photographic ability of the photographer and the general intent of the photographs…the finalists will then be asked to make a blurb.com book of their work with a more detailed description before finally choosing the recipient of the EPF grant….this avoids us having to charge an entry fee here on BURN…
cheers, david
Just wanted to say, I am really sorry not to have an appropriate project in the pipeline for EPG for this year because I have a feeling the competition will go ballistic over the next few years.
Thank you David for making it all happen.
regards
Ian
IAN….
well, what i really want to happen is to secure enough funding to give out several “assignments” throughout the year…i picked a bad time for this dream ..the middle of a global recession!!! on the other hand, maybe not…we will know in the next couple of months if this will be possible…
cheers, david
David, I don’t think it’s going to be a bad time at all. Great things are coming :))
YOUNG TOM…
i feel the same….
i wonder – is this due april 1 as in wednesday at 11:59 eastern? or tuesday (the 31st) at 11:59 pm, before the 1st etc? i know it would seem lame to be pushing to the last minute but i want to step away from my portfolio for 24 hours (at least) before making my absolute final cut. anyone know? thanks.
HOPEFUL…
no problem…step back…april 1 will be liberally interpreted to account for time zone and subjective interpretations of april 1….
cheers, david
Will there be an April Fools interpretation?
PETE…
smiling…wasn’t that my point??
Just testing…. If you are around tomorrow (tuesday) let me know a good time to call.
Hi DAH,
sounds stupid, but just wanted to double-check : we should send an invitation to a LIGHTBOX and NOT a GALLERY ?
cheers,
katharina
David and Tom,
Great things are coming, like great inflation, great unemployment, great deficits and great taxes. I am, however, optimistic about my ability to shoot it. If you guys don’t mind, I’ll just hold up my end of this nice yin yang thing we have going.
I Just submitted Garage Sale David.
David McG, don’t mind at all, all things in balance. But you will see, the deepest troughs beget the highest waves.
David,
the photos in the lightbox are very small…is there a way to make them appear bigger for the judging?
so i know i should be QUARANTINED to times and times or welcome to burn…
but can i just say good luck to everyone?
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!
(DAH, tylenol 6000 mg to each and everyone of your judges!)
Yeah I know.
April Fools = Happy New Years…
Good luck to everyone that entered work!
DAH
“i picked a bad time for this dream”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” Marcel Proust
Best of luck to all the dreamers!
kat-thie-leen
DAH, I’m sure that you taking someone under your photographic wing for six months or so would be worth more then a pot of gold, and far better then the paper stuff that is so easy to print! :-)
i am submitting some work- this is my first time using photoshelter- the gallery allows to add captions but when i put my photos on the lightbox it wont let me add captions- just comments- where should i add captions?
please advise.
thank you.
Angela
add the captions in the archive and they will automatically show in the Gallery AND in the Lightbox.
To add captions in the archive, just select the specific image (can be more than one) and then go to “Edit” and “IPTC Info …”. The first field of “IPTC Info…” is called “Description”. Enter your captions there.
Good luck!
Lassal
KATHARINA…
lightbox
RAFAL…
i see the pictures about 4″ x 6″ which is certainly large enough to get a good idea of the work…believe me , we are looking very very carefully…..the final judging will NOT be from this lightbox anyway….but from a blurb book which will be prepared by any and all finalists…the jury for the EPF will be judging from a very fine presentation indeed…not from a computer screen , but from hard copy….
the overall system we are using seems to work quite well…nobody will be left out who has a strong essay just because the pictures are smallish on Photoshelter….
ANGELA…
i cannot figure out what you are doing wrong….95% of the entrants seem to have figured out the caption entering system just fine….take a deep breath, go slow…
ROBERT…
thank you….i do “take on” photographers all the time for mentoring….it is definitely a mutually beneficial experience…..at any given time i am probably working on book projects etc with about 10 different photographers…..not counting the photographers who choose the workshop experience….
cheers, david
DAH,
thanks for the clarification… We just submitted.
hello,
I have a question…a very simple one i guess. when i was subscribing to the epf, i forgot to put the two “allows” that were requested, and after i couldn´t do it again. is there any problem?
thank ou for your help!
GABRIELA…
yes, there is a problem…i will not be able to see your work….please re-submit and “allow” epf@burnmagazine.org as per the instructions….
Hi Angela.
I asked a similar question a few weeks ago.
As far as I can tell, this is what you should do.
“Go to Archive, click on image, click on ‘edit’ button, click on ‘IPTC info…’ write your caption in the box titled ‘description’, click ‘edit images’ – your done. That image now has your caption imbedded in the IPTC code and will show up in your Lightbox.”
Good luck with your submission.
Best,
Thaddeus.
Ok, thank you.
damn…the allows…Im not sure if I did the allows….I did however share the images with burn…is this a problem?
If it is I will resubmit my images since it is still April 1st.
is anyone having major blurring issues on the photoshelter site? things looking way more blurry there than in photoshop or preview etc? hmm… small blurry images – sure hope the judges download these…
Hi David,
Sorry to bother you, but I have one quick question.
I have checked the “allow to invite other users” and “allow to comment, rate and move images” boxes, but should we also check the “Allow Download” box in the Lightbox which would enable hi resolution downloads from our Lightboxes? (I currently have this set to the default of “No downloads allowed”).
If yes, should we allow “Original file format and size” or “JPEG” file downloads?
Thanks for your time.
Best Wishes,
Thaddeus.
THADDEUS…
we will not download..no need to allow for hi res download
Angela,
If you have not figured out the captions yet… You put the captions on the images in the archive. They will automatically appear in any gallery or lightbox you add the images to. Of course it is better to have all the metadata already in the file before the upload.
If you have any questions, you can email me at pete@petemarovichimages.com.
RAFAL…
if you allowed for epf@burnmagazine.org that is all you needed to do
ahem, anybody having blur issues? is this just standard for photoshelter? could someone let me know before i send this on (please)??? thank you…
hopeful
I didn’t have blur issues..my standard web protocol involves a little sharpening though before uploading: in PS go to filter – sharpen – unsharp mask – amount 50% – radius .3 pixels -threshold 0
Thanks David.
Wow, I finally managed to do it. Photoshelter does read your description if you’ve added one to the image in windows and add it as a caption (and I was trying to figure it out…). At least it was a worthy experience fighting with this site… ;-)
My captions aren’t appearing in the lightbox that I shared, but I can see them in the gallery. Does this mean they’re not there or I’m simply inept at photoshelter? Help kindly appreciated :)
Emily, the Lightbox reads the captions as they appear in the Archive. If you added captions in the Gallery, it is likely that they will appear only in the Gallery. For the purposes of submission to Burn’s grant, you don’t have to create a Gallery. Just do all of your captioning in the Archive, then choose the ones in the Archive that you want to add to a Lightbox.
THANK YOU! That was my mistake. Whew!
I’m glad I’m not emerging; all of this sounds like a lot of work and aggravation