Get able to shine a highlight in your finest pictures of 2023! The 500px World Images Awards are again for his or her third version, providing you a chance to showcase your expertise and turn out to be the subsequent 500px Photographer of the 12 months. It’s the proper competitors to wrap up the 12 months, and guess what? It’s completely free to enter! With six fascinating classes, the Awards has one thing for each photographer, from the zealous hobbyist to the seasoned professional. To stage the taking part in discipline, we’ve launched Hobbyist and Professional sections, making certain everybody has an equal shot at claiming the title.
The Hobbyist part is crafted for passionate fanatics, college students, or anybody who finds pleasure in pictures as a satisfying interest.
The Professional part is designed for photographers who make a dwelling from their craft, deal with paid assignments, and even run photography-related companies.
Prepared to say the title of 500px Photographer of the 12 months and depart your mark on the world of pictures? Submit your finest pictures of 2023 now!
How the 500px World Images Awards work this 12 months
Every class could have a Hobbyist and Professional winner and 5 finalists (12 class winners and 30 finalists complete). The title “Photographer of the 12 months” can be awarded to at least one Hobbyist winner and one Professional winner, with superb prizes to be received.
Submit your finest pictures from 2023 to be a part of this international celebration of pictures!
The Classes
Panorama
Panorama pictures is without doubt one of the most various genres. There are a plethora of landscapes that may be captured, and every location will be photographed in intriguing methods relying on the time of day or vantage level. Nature is magnificent, and cameras have a particular method of articulating that.
Submit your photos that seize the areas inside the world—the huge and untouched terrains or environments.
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Positive Artwork
Positive artwork pictures doesn’t maintain you again—it’s expressive and stuffed with artistic spins on the world round us. Whether or not by utilizing props or post-production manipulation of colours, grain, or extra, creativeness is a robust weapon and delivers putting imagery.
Submit your photos created as a method of expression, with an plain imaginative and aesthetic high quality to them.
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Technical,
Let’s get technical. Meaning sharp and in-focus, intentional manipulation of textures, and exact spacing of topics. When finished effectively, these photos typically really feel simple—however they’re the furthest factor from. Attaining a technically excellent picture means mastering gentle, shapes, and extra.
Submit your photos contemplating traces, texture, shade, measurement, and depth, leading to a high-quality depiction of the topic.
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Documentary
Documentarians assist form historical past. They inform the story of the underdog or the hidden narratives, they expose wealthy cultures and assist awaken society to obligatory change. The second documented could be a second that could be interpreted as easy, however by way of the lens, it turns into complicated.
Submit your photos that chronicle the world round us realistically and truthfully.
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Storytelling
In the case of storytelling, a typical mistake is to overcomplicate the weather inside the body. Nevertheless, what is going to make a stand-out picture is that the narrative is communicated and drives the viewers to need to know extra, in as easy a method as potential.
Submit your photos that seize a second, making viewers marvel what got here earlier than and what is going to come subsequent.
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Industrial Content material
Industrial content material permits manufacturers and small companies to attach with their audiences and is relatable and genuine when finished efficiently. Photos want to face out, really feel real, and resonate with viewers as they see themselves mirrored ultimately.
Submit your photos taken to promote, promote, or market a enterprise, a product, a service, an individual, or individuals.
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The Awards and Prizes
The 2023 500px World Images Awards has greater than $26,000 in prizes to be received! From money prizes to stand-out gear from some superb manufacturers like Hasselblad, Xpozer, Joby, DJI, and Exascend.
Class Winners
Professional:
- Money prize of $500 US
- Wavo PRO and Wavo AIR from JOBY
The Wavo Professional is the last word skilled on-camera microphone for creators and filmmakers. It could possibly clear up background noise and LED lights notify you of low battery ranges. Excessive-quality modular and safe 2.4Ghz wi-fi audio transmission with a novel mounting system that adapts to your creativity with as much as six hours of battery life. A quick pairing and easy-to-set-up course of that works along with your smartphone or digicam straight out of the field. - 2TB transportable SSD from Exascend
Impressed by and purpose-built for taking up outside adventures. Its sturdy, IP67-rated alloy permits it to face up to influence, water, and dirt, making the SSD an excellent companion for skilled filmmakers working within the wild. - 24×36 print of profitable picture and mounting system from Xpozer
A razor-sharp, glare-free 24×36 inch print with an ultralight aluminum mounting system that lets you simply click on in and swap any new prints that can assist you have a good time your particular moments. - One-year 500px Professional account
- World publicity by way of social media channels and 500px weblog
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE OF $1,025 US
Hobbyist:
- Money prize of $250 US
- Wavo PRO from JOBY
The Wavo Professional is the last word skilled on-camera microphone for creators and filmmakers. It could possibly clear up background noise and LED lights notify you of low battery ranges. - Osmo Cell 6 from DJI
Osmo Cell 6 is an clever smartphone stabilizer full of artistic options. It’s compact and simply foldable to slot in your palm and launches mechanically as soon as unfolded to seize photographs at a second’s discover. - 24×36 print of profitable picture and mounting system from Xpozer
A razor-sharp, glare-free 24×36 inch print with an ultralight aluminum mounting system that lets you simply click on in and swap any new prints that can assist you have a good time your particular moments. - One-year 500px Professional account
- World publicity by way of social media channels and 500px weblog
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE OF $1,025 US
500px Photographer of the 12 months
Professional:
- Hasselblad X2D 100C medium format digital digicam and lens combo
An unmatched merge of kind and performance—the X2D 100C establishes itself as Hasselblad’s flagship mirrorless medium format digicam. A 100-megapixel CMOS sensor and developments in picture high quality, focusing, stabilization, responsiveness, and storage, are constructed into the long-lasting Scandinavian design. The X2D 100C combines groundbreaking engineering with a craftsman’s contact. - ‘500px Photographer of the 12 months’ badge
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE OF $13,000 US
Hobbyist:
- DJI Mavic 3 Professional Fly Extra Combo
The DJI Mavic 3 Sequence options next-level imaging efficiency. Mavic 3 Professional’s triple-camera system ushers in a brand new period of digicam drones by housing three sensors and lenses with totally different focal lengths. Geared up with a Hasselblad digicam and twin tele cameras, Mavic 3 Professional is a triple-camera drone that unlocks new taking pictures views, permitting you to embrace artistic freedom additional, seize fascinating surroundings, discover photographic storytelling, and make cinematic masterpieces. - ‘500px Photographer of the 12 months’ badge
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE OF $3,000 US
All class winners and finalists (30) will obtain an attractive 24×36 print of their profitable picture and a mounting system from Xpozer.
The way to Enter
Assessment the six classes that you could enter (at no cost to you) for this 12 months’s awards. When you’ve familiarized your self with what our editors can be in search of, revisit your archive of photos taken in 2023 and cull them with intentionality. You’ll be able to submit any photos that you simply’ve uploaded to the 500px web site since January 2023, or add new work to your profile to submit.
Please solely submit your work to the suitable talent stage to maintain the competitors honest. Our editors can be utilizing a eager eye and their finest judgment to curate, however your honesty when submitting is appreciated.
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