Win in our Reader Survey

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Dec 022011


As 2011 draws to a close we want to ask you for you feedback on PhotoComment and to get to know you a little better. If you head on over to this page here, you will find our reader survey (it is also printed in the December issue of PhotoComment Magazine). If you participate and share your name and contact details your stand the chance to win a Vanguard Heralder 38 bag. So what you waiting for, fill in the survey here now. For more about the bag read on after the break.

(Please note that delivery of the prize outside of South Africa will be for the recipients own expense)

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Win A Lowepro Pro Runner 350AW

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Jul 062011


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In our July edition one lucky reader – Candice Peetz – who submitted their portfolio and was picked to be the published as our PhotoComment and Outdoorphoto Readers Portfolio won a Wacom Bamboo Touch graphics tablet. For the August issue the published portfolio will get a Lowepro Pro Runner 350AW from Outdoorphoto. We will be picking the best portfolio submission on Monday 11 July 2011 (thats next week) so be sure to submit your portfolio online ASAP.


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Potchefstroom Studio Workshop

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Jun 172011



Back in May Graham Robertson Photographic and Emil Wessels held a full day studio workshop at the old Snowflake Mills in Potchefstroom. The video above will give those who did not make it to the first one, a taste of what the next one will be like on 30 July 2011.

Also remember that you have until 30 June - that’s the end of this month – to vote for the best image submitted from that day to be on the August cover of PhotoComment Magazine. To vote for your best head over to the gallery here.


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ODP Photographer of the Year

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Jun 112011


A while ago we announced the launch of the ODP (Outdoorphoto) Photographer of the Year Competition. You can keep up to date of where the competition is at by checking out the competition page here. There are 18 days left to enter the next category which is Panorama. The winner of the overall Photographer Of  The Year will get a R10,000.00 voucher plus there are different prizes in some of the individual categories up for grabs as well.


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Photo Friday Winner – Lonely by Joggie van Staden

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May 202011


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First, congrats Joggie for taking the Photo Friday Prize for Feb-Apr 2011. Please send us your contact and address details so we can arrange to get your prize of the Fuji FinePix camera and Scott Kelby Photoshop CS5 book. You image was the one that had the judges coming back time and time again.

Apologies for having taken so long to announce the winner, we have had some unexpected issues.

Reminder that moving forward till the end of July we are wanting great pictures to print as part of Photos For Hope so we will be looking for the Photo Friday images from there.

One more thing. We have yet to get in touch with the last Photo Friday winner. Please contact us ASAP to claim your prize or we will have to pass it on to someone else.


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Potch Studio Workshop – Cover Competition

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May 092011


It was great to see such a big turn out for the Potch Studio Workshop organised by Emil Wessels and Graham Robertson Photographic. A great time was had by all who attended and many many photographs were taken. It sometimes felt like we were at a rave with the amount of flashes firing at the same time.

PhotoComment is running a competition for the attendees of this workshop. Below you will find a link to download the PhotoShop template for the cover of PhotoComment Magazine. You can use this template to create your own limited edition cover of PhotoComment. Use the guidelines provided to create your cover and submit it to the Photo Gallery which will be open from Tuesday 10 May. Check this post again for the link once the gallery is open.

We look forward to seeing how you did!

The gallery will be open for entries until 31 May 2011 and voting will be open until 30 June 2011.

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Child Welfare Competition with Vega

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Apr 262011


Vega Pretoria is joining forces with Child Welfare Tshwane (CWT) in running a photography competition to raise awareness of the plight of the most vulnerable in our communities.

In brief, the competition is aimed at raising awareness through the photographic medium, of child welfare issues in and around the City of Tshwane, although I am certain you will agree that these are fairly universal.

The competition is open in two categories:

Pupils and students: R100 per entry
Adults: R250 per entry

An entry is limited to 3 three images.

Entries will open from 12 April and will close on 21 May.

2nd year students at Vega Pretoria will be the judges of the competition (as part of a formal critiquing project).

The images will go on display at the Brooklyn Mall during the Child Protection Week (30 May-4 June), with the competition winners being announced on Saturday 4 June at the exhibition.

Go to http://www.childwelfare.co.za for more information


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WIN A FREE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP!

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Mar 232011


Professional photographer Andi Lowicki (www.arternative.co.za), featured in photocomment April 2011 is offering 10 lucky readers a free 2 hour workshop focussing on portrait photography.

Two groups of five winners each will meet with Andi on Saturday the 23rd and 30th of April at Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, JHB.

To enter just email your details and the preferred date to andi.lowicki.sa@gmail.com – Good luck!

Competition ends Sunday 17/4/2011, winners will be notified the next day. Entry fee to Botanical Gardens (R25 p/p) not included. Winners to supply own model and photographic equipment.


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Our First ‘Photo Friday’ Winner – Flag Store Front

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Feb 032011


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After a great deal of deliberating by the judges we have finally come to the point where we can announce our winner of the Photo Friday Competition for the period ending January 2011. The image ‘Flag Store Front’ seems to have within it a mystery that held many of us spell bound. I personally keep asking myself questions like “What is it trying to tell us? What could be hiding behind the door?” and out of a great selection of images this one kept attracting my gaze time and time again.

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Winner of Pretoria CBD Photo Walk Competition

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Jan 312011


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We have a winner, congratulations Allie van Niekerk who wins our Foto First and Fuji sponsored Dissposible Camera Competition at the Pretoria CBD Photo Walk we held on the 26th January 2011. We will arrange to get your Foto First voucher to you shortly.

Our apologies for not announcing this earlier as we planned, technical issues were the cause of the delay but that is coming right with our upgrades to the servers.

Stay posted for details of the next Photo Walk on 12 Feb 2011 in Parys


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Competition: London Street Photography Festival 2011

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Jan 262011


This is a competition that has got my interest and hopefully it catches yours as well. The London Street Photography Festival is happening from the 7-17th July 2011 and with it a competition for the International Street Photography Award. The winner will get £1000.00 and an all expenses paid trip to attend the festival and an Olympus PEN.

Check out their website for details and keep in mind their definition of street photography which is:

un-posed, un-staged photography which captures, explores or questions contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their surroundings.

Get shooting and enjoy, the deadline is the 31 March 2011.


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Update: Pretoria Photo Walk Competition

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Jan 202011


If you haven’t heard about our Pretoria Photo Walk happening this Saturday then check out the details here. For those of you who are coming here is some exciting news. Foto First are sponsoring a little competition for the day.

We have 20 disposable cameras that will go to the first 20 participants who grab them on the day. You will get to shoot with them on the walk, hand them back and we’ll get them processed and scanned. From their we will be judging the best image and that person will get a R250.00 Foto First Voucher for there creative abilities produced with the most basic of cameras.


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News: LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD 2011

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Jan 202011


The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be announced for the 32nd time in the year 2011. Entries (professional photographers only) for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2011 will be accepted as online submissions between 15 January and 1 March 2011. Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack NEWCOMER Award are open to all (prospective) photographers who are aged 25 years and under.

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Update: Photo Friday and Christmas Competition

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Jan 072011


Its is with a sad heart that we have to announce the cancellation of the Christmas Competition. The competition attracted less than a handful of entries which may be due to the busy nature of the time of the year.

At the same time, we don’t want the effort of those who did enter images in the competition to go to waste. We have therefore decided to carry over these images into the Photo Friday competition and will be announcing a winner for this weeks entries once we can judge the User Gallery for this week and the Christmas entries all together. Expect Photo Friday then on Monday.

Our apologies for this, we had not expected such an outcome.


Posted by Tristan - Founder at 1:43 pm

Photo Competition: The Spirit of Christmas

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Dec 142010


We’re not sure if the feeling is unique to us – though we doubt it – but it seems that each year Christmas feels a little less… Christmaslike than the year before.

We’ve teamed up with Foto First and Fujifilm South Africa to bring you a new competition over this festive season where you could win a Fuji FinePix AV110 and R500.00 Foto First Printing Voucher.

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Outdoorphoto Launches 2011 Competition

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Dec 082010


If you are a photographer living on the web and you have not yet heard of Outdoorphoto then you are living in the dark ages, which cant be fun if you painting with light. ODP has a thriving online community and some amazing images are posted to the site daily. In 2011 they will be searching for the Outdoorphoto Photographer of the Year.

Read the press release after the break for the full details.

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Competition: Photo Fridays

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Aug 202010


Cas Pretorius(Spring) Burst of Spring So it’s Friday, the weekend is upon us, cameras are firing up and getting ready to shoot our creative expressions. Before you rush out, let us share some exciting news in the form of an ongoing photography competition here on PhotoComment called Photo Friday.

Under our gallery section we have a User Submitted gallery into which you can upload your pictures. Each Friday we will pick our favourite image from there as our Photo Friday Image. At the end of the year (and on other occasions as sponsorship allows) a winner will be picked from all the Photo Friday Images as a prize winner.

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