We have submitted our selected photographs for the competition yesterday, done and over with at around 1pm in the afternoon. It was hard work, man. Didnt realise there were so many things to do! We slept late the night before doing all the necessary. Earlier we printed the chosen ones, 6 altogether in 8r sizes.
And a slight mishaps happened when we realise 8r has two sizes. It was either 8x10 or 8x12. At first we didn’t specify which size we just asked the girl to print 8r. When it was done, our pictures were cropped to suit the 8r size of 8x10. And one of the conditions of the competition was, the pictures should not be cropped! Well... they were now and they didn’t look nice anymore.
Hubby was not happy especially on one specific picture where he really needed to show the whole picture to make sense of what he was trying to portray. The rest looked just ok (although we didn’t know if we got chopped because of this) and the salesgirl relented and she printed another one which the size of 8x12 without extra charges. Phew... we just had to accept that our pictures were cropped and got on with it.
Then back at home we cut the white cardboard paper we bought much earlier as boarders and stuck all the pictures on them. It took at least 2 hrs since hubby was such a perfectionist, lol. Even the cutting took time. He measured everything up and made sure everything was symmetrical. I wont have that kind of patient but I am glad one of us are. The result were awesome. The next day, we were busy finding ideas for the title and description. It was excruciatingly painful to make a good title and description. Although I know sometimes I got flairs for words – sometimes! Not always. But at the end it turned out ok, I think we managed to do well and find good words. Another phew!
Around noon we were off to the Empire and submited the pictures. Excited.. excited. History is in the making here people. We joined a photography competition for the first time although I doubt if we were to win. Our pictures were good but I am sure there are other participants who are better, hahaha... not very optimistic at the moment but at least we enjoyed the thrill of the challenge.
We will find out soon enough who win but for now, its done and over.
And a slight mishaps happened when we realise 8r has two sizes. It was either 8x10 or 8x12. At first we didn’t specify which size we just asked the girl to print 8r. When it was done, our pictures were cropped to suit the 8r size of 8x10. And one of the conditions of the competition was, the pictures should not be cropped! Well... they were now and they didn’t look nice anymore.
Hubby was not happy especially on one specific picture where he really needed to show the whole picture to make sense of what he was trying to portray. The rest looked just ok (although we didn’t know if we got chopped because of this) and the salesgirl relented and she printed another one which the size of 8x12 without extra charges. Phew... we just had to accept that our pictures were cropped and got on with it.
Then back at home we cut the white cardboard paper we bought much earlier as boarders and stuck all the pictures on them. It took at least 2 hrs since hubby was such a perfectionist, lol. Even the cutting took time. He measured everything up and made sure everything was symmetrical. I wont have that kind of patient but I am glad one of us are. The result were awesome. The next day, we were busy finding ideas for the title and description. It was excruciatingly painful to make a good title and description. Although I know sometimes I got flairs for words – sometimes! Not always. But at the end it turned out ok, I think we managed to do well and find good words. Another phew!
Around noon we were off to the Empire and submited the pictures. Excited.. excited. History is in the making here people. We joined a photography competition for the first time although I doubt if we were to win. Our pictures were good but I am sure there are other participants who are better, hahaha... not very optimistic at the moment but at least we enjoyed the thrill of the challenge.
We will find out soon enough who win but for now, its done and over.
These are the pictures I submitted. I didnt reveal hubby's since I didnt ask his permission to show them here.
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