CJPOTY round 8: Light

The theme for the eighth round of the 2023/24 Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors is ‘Light’. Light is a necessary a part of images, however the mild’s course, high quality or color is usually what makes {a photograph}.

For this round, we need to see your pictures that the sunshine makes a bit extra particular. The sunshine will be pure or synthetic, and the images will be taken wherever at any time.

This round of our month-to-month competitors is open for submissions till 23:59 BST (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on thirty first August 2023.

To submit your entry, comply with the hyperlink to cjpoty or click on on the CJPOTY button on the prime of any of our web site pages. You may submit as much as three entries for £2.00 plus cost processing prices (£0.26). Photos ought to be Jpegs at the very least 1920 pixels alongside their longest facet however no bigger than 2MB.

Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

On the finish of the month, the Digicam Jabber group will choose one profitable picture and 9 runners-up from the August entries. The photographer of the profitable picture will obtain a voucher from MPB.com to the worth of £500, which will be spent on something from an enormous vary of equipment from the World’s greatest platform for used photographic gear.

All 10 of the chosen pictures will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do that every month in 2023 in order that by the top of the year, there shall be 120 shortlisted pictures. These will then go earlier than our unbelievable panel of judges who will resolve the first, 2nd and Third-placed pictures.

The photographer of the first-placed picture general, as determined by the panel of judges, will obtain a voucher to the worth of £1000 from MPB.com in addition to a trophy and the title ‘Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year 2024‘. The photographers who come second and third will obtain vouchers value £500 and £250, respectively.

You don’t must enter the competitors each month, however you might be welcome to take action, and the extra shortlisted pictures you’ve on the finish of the year, the higher the prospect of profitable the highest prize.

CJPOTY VIP Judges

On the finish of the year, our illustrious panel of judges has the onerous process of choosing the primary, second and third-placed pictures general from the shortlist of 120. Our judges are:

Benedict Brain – Photographer, journalist & Sigma ambassador
Sophie Collins – Chief Advertising Workplace at MPB, Trustee of Royal Photographic Society
Donna Crous – Meals photographer, creator, Nikon Europe ambassador and Rotolight Grasp of Light
Ross Hoddinott – Panorama photographer, wildlife photographer, creator, tutor, conservationist
Tracy Marshall-Grant – Arts Director, curator and producer
Denise Maxwell – Multi-genre photographer and lecturer
Carolyn Mendelsohn – Artist and portrait photographer
Paul Sanders – tremendous artwork photographer
Jemella Ukaegbu – Photographer & founding father of UK Black Feminine Photographers (UKBFTOG)
Christina Vaughan – Founding father of Cultura Artistic, the house of inclusive inventory images

Observe the hyperlink to search out out extra in regards to the CJPOTY judges.

About MPB

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Headquartered within the inventive communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB group consists of educated camera consultants and seasoned photographers and videographers who deliver their ardour to work every single day to ship excellent service. Every bit of equipment is inspected fastidiously by product specialists and comes with a six-month guarantee to provide clients peace of thoughts that purchasing used doesn’t imply sacrificing reliability.