Photography Call For Entry: Fill & Download for Free

You can use Instagram, facebook etc, but these are social media sites and in my opinion the feedback or critiques you would bet aren’t worth anything. There are a number of websites or actual galleries and photography organizations that call for entries (of portfolios, or photos) that will then be critiqued by high end professionals. You will need to first submit a portfolio of work then it has to be accepted, which not always an easy task since they only want to critique the best. Try searching sites like CaFE’ (Call For Entries) or LENSCRATCH

This may come as a surprise, but you have no control over what they do with that photo in most situations. This is true in pretty much all of Europe, Asia and the Americas.There are some limits, fortunately. If they took the photo where you have an expectation of privacy, like while using the toilet, they may be running afoul of local laws (e.g. US state laws often cover this; also illegal in UK and Japan, and surely other places). Same for spy photos of intimate situations in a bedroom, if you know what I mean. Shooting these and then sexting it is illegal in most states in the US.Also, laws in most countries prevent them from using your likeness for promoting a business or product without your permission. This is called the Personality Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights). Again, this exists in one form or another internationally.Further, you could have forbidden photography while on your premises. Many dance clubs and other venues post signs forbidding photography, for example. Or you may have told the person verbally. Either way, this makes "no photography" a condition for entry and violating this means that the person is now trespassing. Your house, your rules.But unless they agree to delete the photo(s) as a condition for remaining on the premises, all you can do is kick them out; maybe with the help of the police. You have no rights to force any photographer to delete a photo. Ever.When you are in a public place and people can see you, you have no rights to tell them not to look. Same with photography; you can't compel them to not shoot photos. You can cover yourself up, which solves both I guess, but that is your choice, you can't dictate how others act in public.

When I find myself stuck on photographing the same things all the time or just generally uninterested, here’s what I do.Find images you like that are different from what you currently shoot. Really different. For example, if you have only photographed landscapes and done portraits then look at composite photography or long exposure black and whites. Then go out and try to replicate that look yourself. By practicing a totally new technique, one of two things will happen.You will decide you love that new creative direction and immerse yourself in learning everything you can about it.You decide it’s not for you, but you have learned some new skills to apply to the things you do like to photograph.As for what to do with pictures other than posting online:Find public “call for entry” events that you can submit to. I usually find those on something like Call For Entry dot org, but you might have something even more local and specific where you live. Printing and submitting your work for exhibition is far more rewarding in my experience than posting online. Photo communities online tend to be echo chambers talking about the same handful of topics over and over. Print your work, put your hands on it, and display it. You will learn a lot about making better photos both at the point of taking the image and in post processing software. It will cost you a bit of money but the satisfaction and new connections you will make by doing it are absolutely worth it.