Commercial Art Photography Contest (21572), Pictures Page 1

Commercial Art - Photography Contest [8 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

68%

Contest goal:

Think Advertising or Stock imagery or Product placement...an image meant to 'sell' or entice it's subject to the general public... but put some commodity your 'client' wants you to market, on our screens.
Normal rules apply, you can not add text to your image.

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: awediot

kyricom: Does this mean we're supposed to create a studio shot, or just snap a shot from somewhere commercial? ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

Wayne Cheah: I suspect it's the former. Snapping "somewhere commercial" wouldn't qualify as your "creation?"

Here you have a "client" who has a product to sell and you are the lucky "commercial" photographer given the job of photographing it for purposes of advertisement.

I think allowing text in the image would make it more meaningful, and interesting as a commercial advertising tool? ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

awediot: Good refining of the theme Wayne... I agree that just creating an ad by using text would be the next logical step, but guess that's Pho-Shop territory. A wordless image that BEGS for a slogan and sales pitch is an interesting challenge in itself. ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

Wayne Cheah: Quote:- "A wordless image that BEGS for a slogan and sales pitch is an interesting challenge in itself"

I totally agree. That photo with the title, "Ties that bind", has a brilliant slogan / sales pitch, don't you think?

( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

awediot: For a mad planet which makes choking cloth strips and posture wrenching heel spikes req ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

awediot: ... required status symbols...yes, "Ties that bind" is perhaps to ironically true to provoke too much thought in the customer... Born salespeople are scary. ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

Wayne Cheah: For the sake of this contest, let's unashamedly indulge in some rampant, unbridled commercialism?

( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

Wayne Cheah: BTW, this contest is YOUR idea?

( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

kyricom: All interesting, but we need the mod of the theme to let us know. ( 5 years and 2268 days ago )

Contest Moderator: The goal of the contest is to create your own set-up of a product for commercial purpose and then photoghap it. Shop windows and similar are off-theme. ( 5 years and 2267 days ago )

awediot: quote//indulge in some rampant, unbridled commercialism?.. BTW, this contest is YOUR idea? //

Yep...and yup. Came on the heels after suggesting a diptych of the same image, one as a -snapshot-, the other as -Fine- art. 'Commercial' art fit in there somewhere. - Being lucky enough to have been burdened with what is considered 'good imagination' and some 'talent', the paradox of creativity being a commodity has haunted both my professional and private life, my whole life...

As a photographer/artist, do >you< take pictures/make/create works of -art- that you like, what is most likely to win these contests, what is trending, or what might sell? It's a big, complex question for a lot of people... Focusing on pop-culture advertising, trying to duplicate it's base appeal, seemed a good way to further examine this dichotomy... The ideal shot IMO would be one of those minimalist, counter-intuitive images that leaves you convinced you'll be a happier, more popular and successful person if only you can figure out how to get your hands on whatever it is the ad is peddling... Money then is not only no object, but the more expensive, the more elite, the more impressive you'll be, and the more your world will improve. ( 5 years and 2267 days ago )

awediot: *My home state, Colorado, is the first in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana... As of Jan. 1, 2014, any 21 year old will be able to buy pot over the counter just like beer, wine, cough syrup and ibuprofen... [from the stores who manage to get a license to sell it...]

Talk about an opportunity for an unprecedented ad campaign.

Was thinking about the magazine ad I'd shoot for it... A decade ago I would have had all the props to set up a nice still life, but not any more... I out grew it too soon... [just thought I'd share

] ( 5 years and 2267 days ago )

friiskiwi: Perhaps it would be better to share all these thoughts in the forum. ( 5 years and 2266 days ago )

awediot: I try to friski. It's DEAD... If it's TOO out of place or distracting for some reason, just let me know and I'll really try to fade back into the woodwork. ( 5 years and 2262 days ago )

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Make a Child Happy this Christmas - created by friiskiwi

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Timeless Elegance - created by friiskiwi

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For vinyl lovers... - created by karaflazz

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