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We have been approached by Renegade Pictures to ask members about this:
RENEGADE PICTURES are looking for a number of exciting and talented contemporary photographers from all disciplines and backgrounds to take part in a new CHANNEL 4 arts series, HOT SHOTS.
From an open online competition in conjunction with the photography website FLICKR, the UK’s most exciting undiscovered photographers will be asked to take part in a challenging new photographic competition.
Over three weeks filming in August 2007, the selected photographers will undertake a series of assignments, testing their skills in a number of different photographic genres. Their work will be assessed by world-famous members of the photographic community, amongst them photographers, buyers and curators. Only one photographer can win the overall competition.
If you are interested in hearing more, and think you could be the HOT SHOT we are looking for, email your name, email address and a contact telephone number to: photos@renegadepictures.co.uk
NOTE: Applicants must be over 18 and have not have earned more than £30,000 from photography in the past 12 months.
:D I think we have some serious talent here, i recon we have people here who can win. Come on lads and lasses, lets get you on TV! :clap:
I'm a bit ****ed, and have nothing to do in August in between finishing my job and starting my masters, so I have applied!
well im in for it ill go for the novice side
if you dont enter you will never know
:nuts: god they will laugh at me lol
For anyone wanting more information, this is the email you get in reply -
Thank you for your enquiry. HOT SHOTS is a major new Channel 4 competition for
photographers which will run in conjunction with the photo sharing site Flickr.
The UK's most up and coming contemporary photographic talent will be able to
apply for HOT SHOTS by uploading their work to a specially created C4/Flickr
site.
Once the online application process is complete, a selection of the most
promising photographers will be asked to take part in the series.
Over three weeks filming in August 2007 they will be set a number of challenging
photographic assignments by an elite panel of judges consisting of world famous
photographers, buyers and curators working within the industry today. The
assignments will be designed to test and enhance the photographers' individual
skills and abilities. Selection for the series will combine peer voting via
Flickr with the expert opinions of our selection panel. One photographer will
win the overall competition and the fantastic prize.
The applications site will go live at the end of June.
You will receive a reminder email once the application site is live with details
of the web address. Please reply to this message now however with the following
details:
FULL NAME
EMAIL ADDRESS
REGION/COUNTRY
AGE
GENDER
CURRENT OCCUPATION
ETHNIC BACKGROUND
PLEASE ALSO STATE WHETHER YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Please also attach a clean (non watermarked) low-res file of ONE of your images.
Please also state how you heard about the competition.
We are committed to pursuing equality of opportunity. Monitoring applicants and
applications is one way of helping to ensure that the competition is being
adequately marketed and managed to ensure that it is open to all. The
information you provide on age, gender and ethnic origin will be used for
monitoring purposes only.
Please ignore this email if you have already submitted these details.
Thanks again for your enquiry. We'll be in touch!
The HOT SHOTS Team
Jimmy_Lemon
13-06-2007, 22:15
Sounds interesting - Shame I don't go anywhere near the front end of a camera :p could be good to see some people from here on it though!
Even if I don't enter this I imagine the show will be fun to watch. Its nice to see more photography type shows on TV. Oh and I will be entering.
I'm gonna stand back from this, give you all a chance if I dont enter...
Seriously though, can't wait for this, looks like a great show to watch. An up to date photography show at bloody last!
I do beleive I may just be entering :D
I wonder if it'll be like the BBC show. Take good photographers and then strip away their powers to leave them producing sub-par images. Basically, can I do HDR?!?! ;)
shiato storm
14-06-2007, 00:07
well, might as well give this some thinking, no idea what I'm upto in august but nothing to lose eh? and as perviously put - you never know unless you have a go eh :)
also applied even though I'll brick it if they choose me lol :D
mobilevirgin
14-06-2007, 01:18
well, I've bitten .....
Note: Applicants must not have earned more than £30,000 from photography in the past 12 months.
Oh darn ... thats me out then :lol: :lol: :lol:
Matt Charlton
14-06-2007, 07:55
Hmmmmm,
I don't think I've got time, I'll be spending most of August finishing off the building of the new network here...
I'm guessing it won't be 3 weeks out of work though.
Wile E. coyote
14-06-2007, 09:02
Might have a dive in, agree with Mtx I'll be bricking it if they chose me
alexisonfire
15-06-2007, 01:56
Entered for the hell of it...half of me would be bricking it if i was picked, simply because i only just started out in photography, the other half really wants to do it :D
Closing date tomorrow morning at 9:00 am: http://picturethis.channel4.com/home.php
Gah. Late night it seems. The form they sent is huge!
Damn I never did enter this....oops
whiteflyer
18-07-2007, 23:29
I did read about this a while back, but thought it would just be full of pros, I mean who on here earned more the £30K just from photography.
I was supposed to go for screen test for "hotshots" presented by Amanda Lamb on discovery real time last year..I was gutted couldn't make it due to work etc..:'(
God that took a while. The Flickr integration didn't work that well and it took a long time to enter my 3 pics.
I just got a phone call to tell me I'm through to the next round! 9am Monday for interview. Got to bring a hard copy portfolio, which I don't have! Hah! Bricking it now ;)
Nice :) I have a feeling I may not get in as I mentioned I was shy, but I pointed out that photography has been the cure. Hopefully my HDR shots give me the edge. There's some seriously good photos on there. When did you submit your entry?
I told them I can be shy too at first with people I didn't know. Submitted on Sunday.
There is some seriously good photography on there, but there is also some seriously average photography on there too.
Ah cool, however I admitted in the "Have you seen a shrink box?" that I did once see a cognitive behavioral specialist about trying to fix my shyness. Wish I could have edited that, stupid site. :D I did stress that photography pushes me to face my fear and that I do a lot of street photography for that reason and that well I wouldn't consider myself shy these days. Just look at my Hub shots. Lots of shots of hot girls :D
Well I'm pretty sure I haven't got through. Not going to tell you the format of the session in case anyone else is due to go. Will know for sure next week.
They said about 100 were shortlisted out of a thousand odd who entered (although there seem to be only about 500 on the website). Out of the 100 they are picking 6! Slim chance to get through and I really don't think I cut the mustard. Still, worth a punt and was fun :)
Ah :( I did get the impression they wanted both good photographers and good subjects for TV. No calls for me, guess I was too HDR for them ;)
Are cameras allowed in hospital??? If I was not being operated on then I would do it! :(
Its past the deadline anyways :p
As the interviews are all over and I got my phone call to tell me I hadn't got through I'll tell you what the format of the day was :)
There were 8 of us (well 7, all male one female didn't turn up) and we had to take in our favorite photo we'd taken (http://www.poijoy.com/mohain/gtbphotography/website/brutalist/images/urban_04.jpg) and secretly hand it in to the producers at the begining and a photo we wish we'd taken (http://gringoire.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/henri-cartier-bresson.jpg). Then in the group with the producers looking on we had to go round the table and introduce ourselves, talk a little about how you got into photography and what it means to you and show and explain why you picked the pic you wish you'd taken.
After that they said you've got 5 min to take 5 photos of anything you like in this room. It was a small boring conference room with one table, a few chairs, us, the producers and a box of 'props' (a few wigs, hats, sunglasses and a buddha statue). This is where I floundered around like a landed haddock ;) fumbling with my camera for 2 mins wondering why everyting looked 5 stops under in the preview screen even *** I was wide open and I was cranking up the ISO .... until I realised I had it in Tv, D'oh! I tried some cooky wide angles and perspectives with the 10-20 but TBH they were crap.
Then they went round one at a time and viewed the images on a plasma and you had to explain why you had taken the images you'd taken.
After that they gave us a statement typed on a peice of paper and told us to talk amongst ourselves about it. It said something along the lines of 'Police should be given powers to hold terror suspects indefinitely'. Odd one that ...
Then they bought in everyone's print and we each had to pick our favorites and least favorite and explain why. One bloke had a stunning picture using a wide angle lens at a kite festival on a stormy day, it stood out above everyone elses (even though someone picked mine, yay!), everyone picked the same shot for their least favorite, poor bloke!
Then they had a one-on-one where they talked to you about your portfolio, plans for your photography development etc.
It was a positive experience and it was nice to be picked. It has made me realise some of my weaknesses and has forced me to start my portfolio. It will make me finish some projects I've been half hartedly working on too :)
Looking forward to the 3-part program now which should be broadcast in 2008 sometime. Martin Parr is going to be a judge :)
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