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01. Getting Ready
“Getting Ready” entries spontaneously capture the prepping, grooming, arranging, outfitting, and nail-biting before the ceremony.
02. Ceremony
“Ceremony” shots catch guests and participants throughout pre-ceremony, vow-exchange, and receiving line activity.
03. Reception
“Reception” photographs document festivities from the cocktail hour through the last dance and departure.
04. Kids (Being Kids)
“Kids” entries capture babies, children, and youth doing what they do best!
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. PLEASE SUBMIT DETAILS OF RINGS INTO CATEGORY
#20.
06. Action
“Action” entries capture key moments in peak action, highlighting body language and/or expressions.
07. Emotion
“Emotion” entries unobtrusively freeze intriguing expressions ranging from joy to tears.
08. Humor
“Humor” photographs document the lighter side of the wedding day.
09. Great Natural Light
“Great Natural Light” entries capture moments brilliantly lit under natural and ambient lighting conditions. NOTE: This category is not for images created with the help of any flash or strobe.
10. Creative Portrait
“Creative Portraits” employ a fresh and artistic approach to portraiture in capturing the bride, groom, bridal party, family, friends, children and/or any other posed
wedding party member. Candid moments are not eligible for this category.
NOTE: Though this category may resemble traditional portraiture for some, the key here is to be creative with your subjects.
11. Engagement Portraits
“Engagement Portraits” should demonstrate the photographer's ability to create an interesting environmental portrait of their clients prior to the wedding day. This is the
only category where non-wedding day images are allowed.
12. Food & Drinks
For the “Food & Drinks” category, we are looking for anything food related; particularly, images showing the wedding party or guests enjoying the tastes of the
wedding celebration. Submissions should have a human element to them. Any shots illustrating the process of preparation, serving, and partaking of any part of the meal are most
welcome.
13. Other Vendors
“Other Vendors” submissions include images of musicians, DJs, bands, wedding planners, reception hall staff, florists, caterers, etc., performing their job to make the wedding day possible.
14. Cake Cutting
These images should demonstrate the photographer's ability to anticipate a moment and/or look beyond the ordinary 'Cake Cutting' images that many would come to expect from a wedding.
15. Toasting
For the “Toasting” category, we are looking for images of individuals toasting.
16. Weather
For the “Weather” category, entries include the effects that the weather had on the wedding day (hot, cold, rain, wind, etc.).
17. First Dance
For the “First Dance” category, we are looking for images of the bride and groom hitting the dance floor for the first time as a married couple.
18. Departure
“Departure” images depict the moments when the bride and groom are leaving the reception area and their guests at the end of the wedding day.
19. Full Frame (Black and White)
A brand new category for images that have not been cropped in post production. Full frame, edge to edge, straight from the camera and ONLY in black and white (conversion to B&W is allowed). Anything
goes in this wild card category – from ‘Getting Ready’ to the couple’s ‘Departure’.
20. Ring Details
Entries that depict shots of the rings, either set-up and controlled by the photographer or as they were found.
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