Submit Your Favorite Photography Tip and You Could Win $500!

Submit Your Favorite Photography Tip and You Could Win $500!

on Mar 7th 2013 with 21 comments

We’re excited to let you know about our Phototuts+ photography tip competition, giving you the chance to win $500 to put towards new camera equipment! All you have to do is submit a short video or screencast that showcases your favorite photography tip or trick.

This contest is now closed. Click here to see who won!

Submit Your Tips & Tricks

We’d love to hear all about your photography-related tips and tricks, from how you pose subjects to a demonstration of how you captured an awesome photo. Be as creative as possible, just make sure it’s educational!

All you need to do in order to enter the competition is:

  1. Record a video of your favorite photography tip or trick (the video must five minutes or less!)
  2. Write a short description, including why you think it’s so useful
  3. Upload the video to YouTube
  4. Paste the description into a comment below and with a link to your video
  5. We’ll also be using this process to find a few awesome contributors for Phototuts+, so this is your chance to impress us with your writing, videography and photography skills!
  6. Submit as many videos as you like!

To stand the best chance of winning, be sure to:

  • Record audio using a high quality microphone
  • Record high quality, professional level HD video
  • Stabilize your video
  • Keep it at or under five minutes!

Terms and Conditions

  • The winner of the prize will be chosen by the Phototuts+ editor, based on which video he thinks is the most informative, unique, and professional.
  • Our decision on the best entry will be final.
  • Entries will close at midnight, March 12th.
  • The winner will be contacted via email, on or before March 17th.
  • By submitting a video, you’re giving us permission to publish it on the site (we’ll be showcasing the winning video).
  • The prize will be distributed based on cash value — the winner of the competition will be sent US$500 via PayPal. You’ll need a PayPal account to accept the prize!
  • Envato staff, contractors, and regular writers (anyone who has contributed two or more articles to the Tuts+ network) are not eligible to enter.

Example Video

To give you an idea of the type of content we’re looking for, here’s a quick example that walks you through setting up the “My Menu” feature on your Canon 5D Mark II.


How to Setup “My Menu” on Your Canon DSLR

 
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  • Jeffrey Teo

    ~ A Simple Basic Tutorial on “Light Painting” ~
    Turning a normal matte metal colour figurine of an angel in to a colourful and interesting piece of art using coloured torched lights painting over the figurine creatively in a dark room on long exposure.
    Light Painting – What you need:
    1. Coloured Torch Lights. You can purchase a couple of small and cheap white LED torched lights, and use coloured transparent plastic to cover the front of the torch.
    2. A remote shutter release button that allows you to manually control the opening of the camera shutter for as long as you want. Most DSLR built in shutter control is limited to only 30se opening maximum. Sometimes, you may need more than 30secs to complete your painting.
    3. Keep your ISO as low as possible i.e. ISO100, as we do not want too much light so that we can keep the shutter open as long as possible.
    4. Aperture of f16 and above. Keeping the aperture small can also help to keep the shutter open for longer period of time.
    Still Image can be viewed from my Flickr Site @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/woonch/8300827046/in/photostream
    http://youtu.be/LTic9Fl-xp0

    • secondfret

      Crazy effect, I thought it was an illustration at first. Good work Jeffrey!

      • Jeffrey Teo

        Thank you :)
        Actually the making of the tutorial video was a spontaneous decision. Could have been a more proper one with more advance preparations.

        • secondfret

          Feel free to submit another. There’s no limit on entries.

  • Simon

    Take off lens cap – best tip ever!

  • Jeff Achen

    One simple tip for better fill flash photos is to use the flash in manual mode rather than TTL. Check out my contest entry about using flash in manual mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s_h2Pv1ixc

    • secondfret

      Thanks for your submission Jeff, this is really stellar work!

  • Loyal Renegade Films

    Use the rule of thirds. No, not that rule of thirds. Everyone knows the grid of rule of thirds, but try using three different elements in your image to create a powerful composition.

    • http://www.mac.tutsplus.com/ Josh Johnson
      Author

      Awesome… got a video to show that off?

      • http://twitter.com/RodrigoSarzosa RodrigoSarzosa

        Did you check my entry for the contest Josh?

        • secondfret

          Yep, really great work. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together.

  • Shane Deruise

    PhotoBrew Episode 1

    Photographer Shane Deruise takes you into the finer points of building your very own Dual Camera Holster for under $25!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKGATsX5-lA&feature=share&list=UUDD3Fdw7Uu_ThmaIERKmFcA

  • Guest

    Always take spare batteries and memory cards

  • http://twitter.com/RodrigoSarzosa RodrigoSarzosa

    My entry for the contest is a tip about optimizing the JPEG Previews on your LCD using a Flat Picture Style while shooting in RAW! This helps focusing more on your composition due to the fact that you get increase Dynamic Range and non-saturated colors.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAk-HOFHNDc

  • tjagi

    Take pictures.
    Print them.
    You need a magnetic board and neodymium magnets – use them to attach prints to the board.
    Place the board in the right place.

    The essence of this advice is to look at the photos as often as possible – you can enjoy the work of the legends of photography. They can also be contemporary images, but the most you will learn from yourself. The results might be… surprising!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzm1Jmoko0

    • http://www.mac.tutsplus.com/ Josh Johnson
      Author

      Thanks for your entry, great work!

  • tjagi

    Use your camera – just take pictures.
    Print them.
    You will need a magnetic board and neodymium magnets (they do not damage your photos). Use them to attach prints to the board.
    Place the board in the right place.

    The essence of this advice is to look at the photos as often as possible. You can enjoy the work of the legends of photography. They can also be contemporary images on the subject that you are interested in.
    But the most you will learn from yourself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzm1Jmoko0

    • tjagi

      Please delete this post. Thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/RodrigoSarzosa RodrigoSarzosa

    My entry for the contest is a tip about optimizing the JPEG Previews on
    your LCD using a Flat Picture Style while shooting in RAW! This helps
    focusing more on your composition due to the fact that you get increase
    Dynamic Range and non-saturated colors.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAk-HOFHNDc

  • Look

    Who won this competition?

    • secondfret

      We’ll let you know soon!