Photography Event For Your Business Team Building

by guestcontributor on March 4, 2012

Team building is one of those times of the year that corporate workers look forward to. It is an opportunity to unwind, or bond with your co-workers outside of your usual work environment. However, for the organizers of this activity, it is important to keep your objectives in mind as you go about with your activities for the said event. One of the biggest challenges is in terms of deciding what kind of activity to engage in to ensure that you can help inculcate all of the characteristics that you would want to develop within the employees of your team.

Surprisingly, you can come up with lots of fun ideas for your business team building that involves photography. You need only one camera to use for your team and a lot of enthusiasm in order to make this activity a success.

The first activity is to conduct a treasure hunt. All members of your team need to gather clues to solve a theme that is set up for this game. But here is the twist: the members of the team must use their camera in order to capture a photo that will depict the answer that is required for this game. The team that will be able to provide the closest creative re-imagining of the theme will win the challenge.

Another fun idea for incorporating photography into your business team building is through a game known as “Tell A Story”. This is pretty simple as each team would have to tell a story through photos they had captured. However, this will be slightly challenging as each photo must represent a word or phrase. Then you will have to connect those photos in order to literally tell a story.

Team building activities involving photography will require more teamwork than what would appear initially. On the other hand, it will focus more on the creative aspect of your team cooperation that is measured in a tangible output. Other factors wherein photography events can be useful in this kind of activity deals with how you handle with stress when assigned a particular task, how you interact with members of the team, appropriate of responsibilities, and developing inter-group relations.

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How to Ace Photography Contests

by guestcontributor on July 19, 2011

Because of the growing surge of interest in photography, photography tilts have also become a hit. Photography competitions have continued to attract a big number of contestants from different cultures, age, genders and profession. Even amateur photographers have stood at par with trained and experienced photographers in photography competitions. If you want to start a photography career by winning in a photography competition, here are some guidelines that can help you, aside from buying a good camera:

  • Your photo should complement the theme of the competition. All photography competitions have a theme. Your photo should portray a story related to the competition’s theme. Most photography competitions choose themes from recent and pressing societal issues.
  • Stick to the rules of the competition. No matter how good and expressive your photos are, your entries will still be disqualified if you violate any of the rules of the competition. Important rules and guidelines you should bear in mind include file sizes, allowed editing features and submission mechanism. Following the rules of the competition may spell the difference between victory and failure.
  • Look at previous winners. If the competition is held annually or regularly, try to browse over previous year’s winning entries so you will know what the judges are looking for. Try to decipher the organizers’ biases. If the organizer is fighting for a specific advocacy or cause, try to make your entry in line with the organizer’s advocacy.
  • Go beyond the usual shots. Avoid predictable shots. Try to identify the shots contestants would most probably be making and make a shot deviant or distinct from what you think is predictable and common.
  • Take a shot that connects with the audience. A winning shot is a shot that moves the audience. In order to move the audience, a shot should have a certain emotional and mental connection with the audience.

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