The difference between getting into a show and not getting into a show could be having professionally shot or edited images and an excellent booth image. I want to heartily recommend Larry Berman to all of you. Twice, now, he has fixed my booth shot
Read more…I'm a relative newbie to art festivals, having done just one so far. As I begin to apply for 2020's shows, I would like some input on what subject matter to choose for jurying.
Much of my photography is abstracts and nature details. I tend not to do
Read more…Hey guys,
I posted this as reply a previous post but I couldn't tell if anyone one seeing it so I thought I'd repost it as a new thread and see if that works any better.
I have done dozens of shows in my first year and I have learned so much. After c
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In learning as we go, we are trying to determine the exact meaning of some of the requests for images when filling out and submitting applications. Listed below is what was posted on a recent show we were interested in attending. Hope
Read more…Has anyone had this problem with Entrythingy?
For some reason after images have been uploaded I’m seeing mine in all sorts of crazy sizes. Even though I’m using pieces uploaded straight from my original JPG upload folder, and have not re-sized anyt
Read more…A friend who is a digital artist using the latest regular Photoshop told me that Elements is not in sRGB space, but in 1998 (whatever that is). She said that means (for example) if I send her my images, the color she sees is not the color I see when
Read more…I'm trying out some new pieces right now, and looking at shifting directions. It's doing photography, but more in an emotive vein, and incorporating my own poetry and text. There's a similar form out there called Haiga that is a combination of haiku
Read more…We have heard this is a wonder, well attended, art focused crowd, with average attendance annually over two days of 300,000-350,000. It is in Waynesville, which is south of Dayton, north of Cincinatti.
We loved that the jury process was more intense
Read more…Here is my follow-up to my post asking how to better my booth shot. I took your suggestions, let up my tent in my family's backyard, and tried to really dwindle down my booth so it didnt look so cluttered. Here was my before shot:
I was told it l
Read more…I am starting to look at application for 2013 and have noticed this highlighted image requirement:
"We project our images at our jury using state-of-the-art projectors direct from the exact electronic files submitted by the artists."
Okay, but this y
Read more…Last year, I created virtual 3d products and added my images into the "finished products". I think that might not have been what the jurors were looking for (never got any feedback, but got into shows). I am submitting for a couple of deadlines tonig
Read more…The thought occurred to me that most of you have not customized your "My Page" blog site that you have access to, on AFI. Consequently, you are not taking advantage of an additional marketing tool that lets you broadcast you opinions, etc. to the re
Read more…I think everyone who is a member of AFI should be required to have a profile picture and images of their work on their "My Page" page. It would help when they are asking for advice as to which show they should be doing on any given weekend.
Read more…I have always noticed that different monitors seem to have different settings when it comes to images looking too dark or too light but yesterday I was shocked when I saw my new images that I had put on my website and zapp on a different computer tha
Read more…planning to submit to a Baltimore show in July, but confused by its electronic application images requirements: "max width of 640 (I assume ppi) but up to "250MB." First is very small , second is huge. The numbers seem unrelated and this is unlike
Read more…Hi everyone!
I'm so excited to have found you, I have been reading all the blogs and discussion and its so great to have this support system, mostly for newbies like me.
I'm open to any recommendation, suggestion, comment and advise you can give me.
I've read a lot and understand the importance of having good quality images for jurying. I think all of these discussions talk about photographing your art work. What about scanning your images? Wouldn't a scanned image be as good if not better qu
Read more…I'm on a rant this morning. If this is you, please don't be offended, be educated. If it's not you, bless you, on behalf of all show directors.
Every year, as the applications for the shows I direct come rolling in, I'm amazed that some artists just
Hey all! I have been busy applying to some of my favorite shows for the Spring here in Dallas, TX. I just got my first rejection from a show that seemed like such a good fit for my work. I walked the show several times to see if I was "out of my leag
Read more…Hello all! I've been recently working on a website for an artfair that uses ZAPP standards for accepting images. I got a lot of calls from artists asking for my help resizing images to the proper specs (1920x1920 with black borders if needed) and dec
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