CATEGORIES - Q3 '08 WPJA CONTEST

01. Bride Getting Ready
“Bride Getting Ready” entries spontaneously capture the prepping, grooming, arranging, outfitting, and nail-biting before the ceremony.

02. Groom Getting Ready
“Groom Getting Ready” entries spontaneously capture the prepping, grooming, arranging, outfitting, and nail-biting before the ceremony.

03. Ceremony
“Ceremony” shots catch guests and participants throughout pre-ceremony, vow-exchange, and receiving line activity.

04. Reception
“Reception” photographs document festivities from the cocktail hour through the last dance and departure.

05. Details (Found)
“Details (Found)” encompasses tighter shots of the day's small slices AS THEY WERE FOUND.
NOTE: This category is NOT for set-up detail shots. It's important that images submitted in this category don't contain content controlled by the photographer.

06. Dancing
Photos submitted into “Dancing” will display the varied emotions that take place on a wedding reception dance floor. Anything from the reception dance floor that illustrates the mood of a particular moment (from the first dance to the end of the party).

07. Emotion
“Emotion” entries unobtrusively freeze intriguing expressions ranging from joy to tears.

08. Lit Portrait
“Lit Portait” contains images that use creative lighting techniques in capturing portraits of the bride, groom, bridal party, friends, children and/or other posed wedding party member. The key here is creativity in the use of off-camera flashes and strobes.

09. Transportation
“Transportation” images include brides in limos or carriages, bridal parties en route to the ceremony or reception, trolley rides, antique cars, buses and other transporting themes.

10. Scene Setters
“Scene Setters” provide the essence of the story through one image. Such photographs are derived when the photographer steps back and takes it all in.

11. Cake Cutting
Any and all activities involving cutting the wedding cake. Submissions should demonstrate the photographer's ability to anticipate and look beyond ordinary 'Cake' images.

12. Silhouettes and Shadows
“Silhouettes and Shadows” entries include candid images which contrast light and darkness and can be the result of natural and/or artificial lighting.