WHAT IS THE FOTO FACE OFF?

Five infamous Canadian photographers, namely Jordan Manley, Kari Medig, Steve Ogle, Ryan Creary, and Lucas Jmieff, and their chosen athletes, will be shooting for the four days leading up to the gala dinner and slide show presentation night.

WHEN?

During the third annual Kootenay Cold smoke festival, February 20-23rd, 2009. Slide shows will be shown during the Cold Smoke Buff-eh on the night of February 21st at the Mary Hall at Selkirk College. 820 Tenth Street, Nelson B.C. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets available on-line at www.coldsmokepowderfest.com or at the Whitewater Downtown office. Tickets included in the festival package pricing or bought separately for $50.00. Price includes Cold Smoke Buff-eh (mmmm….food), Cold Shot Foto Face-off and then raging tunes with the Crop Dusters til the wee hours.

WHAT’S AT STAKE?

Besides Cold Smoke Foto Phenon 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:

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Jordan Manley
Kari Medig
Steve Ogle (defending Champ)
Ryan Creary
Lucas Jmieff

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 fitting music. The dates set to shoot and produce a slide show are from 12:00 AM February 17th until 10:00 AM February 21st 2009. Produced slide shows (in the form of a playable DVD) must be turned in by 10:00 am on the morning of February 21st 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 cash and prizes are up for grabs for the top photography and slide shows. The slide shows will be judged, awarding the top 3. Also we will be giving away a people's choice award.

How?

Images used with-in your slide show must be taken in the Kootenays. Let's just 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 17-21 2009. Photographers may be asked to show an image's meta-data to prove the images authenticity in relation to the contest rules and timelines. We won't ask for GPS co-ordinates 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 criterion. Once these photographers have gathered up, edited, and compiled their good images, they will put them together in a slide show and set it 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…or maybe not having fun), dogs, beer, air, dreamy snowscapes, oatmeal, clouds…really the sky is the limit, so let your creative prowess flow in the creation of this slide show.

Judging

We will have a professional panel of judges including; noted photographer and editor of Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine Peter Moynes, renowned Fotog Bryce Duffey, 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. Good composition, artistic use of both natural or artificial light and produce images that exemplify Winter Kootenay Mountain Culture.