WHAT IS THE FOTO FACE OFF?

Five photographers and their chosen athletes, shooting for the four days leading up to the gala dinner and show presentation night.

WHEN?

During the second annual Kootenay Cold smoke festival, February 22-25th, 2008. Slide shows will be shown during the Cold Smoke Buff-eh on the night of February 23rd at the Nelson Rod and Gun Club (801 Railway St Nelson B.C.). Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets included in the festival package pricing or bought separately for $45.00.

WHAT’S AT STAKE?

Besides Cold Smoke Foto fame, there are incredible prizes and cold, hard cash to be won.

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?

Pros and amateurs alike are encouraged to compete for the wild card spot and the chance to go head-to-head against the invited 4 photographers.

Invited Photographers:

Steve Ogle
Bryan Ralph
Mellisa Welsh
Doug Lepage

Wildcard Submission!

If you are interested in being considered for the 5th Wild Card spot, send a DVD with a 3-5 minute slide show of your best images (set to music). We are going to choose the best submission, reflective of a photographer who can show they are capable of putting together a great slide show in a tight deadline, in the depths of winter!! Send submissions to:

Cold Shot Foto Face-off
C/O Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine
313 Innes Street,
Nelson, BC
V1L 5E6

Phone: 250-352-5024

Deadline for Submissions is January 155h 2008.

COLD SHOT DETAILS

What it is?

The five chosen photographers will be given 4 days to shoot and produce a 3-5 minute digital slide show set to music. The dates set to shoot and produce a slide show are from 12:00 AM February 19 until 10:00 AM February 23rd 2008. Completed slide shows (in the form of a playable DVD) must be submitted by 10:00 am on the morning of February 23rd 2008 at the Whitewater Resort Downtown office. We will show each slide show at the Cold Smoke Buff-eh starting around 8:30 P.M. $3000.00 in cash and prizes are up for grabs for the top photography and slide shows. The slide shows will be judged, and the top 3 will be awarded. We will also be giving away a People’s Choice Award.

How?

Images used within your slide show must be taken in the Kootenays. Let’s say you can get images anywhere from between Fernie to Grand Forks (east to west) and Galena Bay to the US border (north to south). Photos must be taken between February 19-23 2008. Photographers may be asked to show an image’s meta-data to prove the image’s authenticity in relation to the contest rules and timelines. We won’t ask for GPS coordinates of each image, but if shots of the Eiffel Tower end up in your show then we will know you weren’t listening to the criteria. Once the photographers have gathered up, edited, and compiled their images, they will each put them together in a slide show set to music. The final product of all this work is to provide a DVD that is playable in a simple DVD player. The software you use to produce the slide show is up to you. iPhoto, Pro-show Producer, Pro-Show Gold, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, are all recommended, as long as you can output a DVD for us to play on a DVD player.

Themes

The theme of the contest is Winter Kootenay Mountain Culture, and images should revolve around this. Of course, this theme is pretty open ended, but ideas for subjects might include…skiing, snowboarding, porcupines, mountains, snow, people (with or without facial hair, doing crazy things or simply having fun), dogs, air, dreamy waterscapes, oatmeal, clouds…really the sky is the limit, so let your creative prowess flow.

Judging

We will have a professional panel of judges, including: noted photographer and editor of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine Peter Moynes; Infamous Nelson Photographer Dave Heath; and ARC’TERYX Creative Director Tom Duguid. Contestants will be judged on their technical ability to produce consistently great images that are creative and unique. Contestant should give careful attention to creating a good composition, using artistic use of both natural or artificial light to produce images that exemplify Winter Kootenay Mountain Culture.