TPPA is pleased to introduce, TPPA Coach’s Corner.  This new program is for TPPA Members who want to reach a higher level of success with their photography and their photography business.

The program is designed to get you face to face with some of the industry’s top photographers who will coach you and mentor you trough very specific goals.

You will work with your coach to evaluate your areas of concern, then determine a game plan for your success.

The program uses a team approach where you will be with a small group of others who are pursuing similar goals.  We keep our teams small so that everyone receives individual evaluations and direction under the watchful eye of your coach.

Teams will meet with their coach once a week via zoom for a 6-8 week season.  During these training sessions, your coach will give you specific tasks to put into practice and monitor your progress to ensure you are reaching your objectives.  You job will be to work on those assignments and report back the next week to assess your progress.

These training sessions provide a “win-win” as you receive individual coaching directed to your specific needs while providing you with additional insight from seeing others who are working on related strategies.

You could easily pay $800-$1500 for private mentoring,  Coach’s Corner with our “Team” approach is only $295.

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The “Texas 10” is a series of photographic workshops that will be held throughout the state between late February and late March.

Workshops are taught by volunteer TPPA Members who are willing to share and promote the success of all photographers throughout Texas (and beyond).

These one-day workshops are offered locally to photographers of all skill levels. You do not have to be a member of TPPA to register for Texas 10 workshops.

Because many of the workshops are hosted in the photographer’s own studio, most of the workshops have a very limited capacity which also ensures everyone has an opportunity to work with the instructor and to ask questions.

Take one workshop or take them all! Secure your spot today in any of the Texas 10 workshops.

The “Texas 10” workshops are proud to be a part of the PPA Continuing Education System. PPA Members attending “Texas 10” workshops will earn one education merit for each workshop completed. PPA members earn merits to apply towards various degrees from PPA including the PPA Masters Degree and the PPA Craftsman Degree. To learn more about all of the benefits of PPA including the merits and degrees program, visit PPA.com.

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Please Note: The TPPA Annual Photographic Competition is open to all photographers, however, only TPPA Members are eligible for trophies and awards. Please log in to our TPPA Member Services site and confirm your membership in TPPA.

The purpose of the Artist Competition is to allow the entrant to demonstrate their art skills and expertise in pursuit of the PPA Master Artist degree (previously known as Master of Electronic Imaging degree). Entries will be judged for digital, artistic and technical proficiency. Entries can be created using digital or traditional art (such as painting and airbrush) or a combination of both. Through this competition, TPPA members are also eligible to earn trophies dedicated to Master Artist entries and TPPA Fellowship Points.

1. All entries must be registered at Printcompetition.com.
2. Entrants may only submit digital files for judging.
3. No changes to your entry are permitted once the entry deadline has passed. No refunds will be issued after the entry fee is paid.
4. Images which are entered into PPA’s District Competition are also eligible for the TPPA Annual Competition provided the images are submitted to TPPA’s competition prior to the start of the District Competition.
5. Once an image has been awarded a Merit vote in PPA District, IPC, or any previous TPPA Annual Photographic Competition, it may not be entered into the TPPA Annual Competition again. This includes any image from an album that has received a Merit vote.
6. Entrants do not need to be TPPA members to compete in the Artist Competition; however, only TPPA members are eligible for trophies and awards.

ELIGIBILITY

1. Entries may be reproduced from existing photographs, portraits, graphics, or any other artwork so long as the entrant is prepared to provide appropriate written documentation indicating permission for usage. This documentation may be requested by TPPA before, during, or after the competition. If an entry, in the good-faith opinion of the TPPA Photographic Competition Chairman, violates copyright, trademark, or any other applicable law and cannot be proven otherwise, that entry shall be disqualified and merits revoked, if issued.
2. All processing, manipulation, artwork, or rendering must be done by the entrant.
3. The entrant has obtained and has access to all necessary releases (model or property), and agrees to hold TPPA harmless against all claims and liabilities arising out of TPPA’s display, publication, and promotion or other use of each image submitted to TPPA.
4. The entrant’s name shall not appear anywhere in or on the face of the entry.
5. A maximum of eight entries is allowed in the Artist Competition.
6. A minimum of 4 entries is required to be considered for the Top Artist Entries Award and the Top 10 in Texas Award.
7. No entry will be eligible if it has been made under the supervision of an instructor or as a class assignment. All images submitted must be self-directed. Images created in an educational environment under direct supervision from an instructor are ineligible.
8. Entries of the same subject in multiple images will be allowed, as long as the images are entirely different. (Background, location, clothing, and concept).
9. Guide images must be included on the submitted digital canvas

REGISTRATION
Registration opens March 1, 2021. All registration takes place at: printcompetition.com

ARTIST COMPETITION CATEGORIES
You must designate one of the below categories for each entry.

Creative Open (Artist)
Restoration

DIGITAL SUBMISSION

– Files must be sized so the longest dimension is 4000 pixels. Each file must contain an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10. In most cases, total file size should not exceed 3.5 MB. Larger files will be accepted when necessary so long are they are JPG/10.
– Files are to be named, Image 1.JPG (No underscores or special characters)

DEADLINES AND FEES

– Entry Deadline is 7:00pm CDT., March 24, 2021.

-TPPA is holding three competitions: Photographic Open Competition, Artist Competition and Wedding Competition. Entrants may enter up to eight entries in each compeition.

-Entry Fee is $15 per image.

-Entries include digital entries only.

– $10.00 per image for image critiques. Please allow 4 weeks following the completion of the competition.

Check out the entire list of awards from the TPPA Annual Photographic Competition.

Note: Failure to comply with these rules may result in disqualification of entry. The decision of the TPPA Photographic Competition Chairman is final.

Please review thoroughly!

Please Note: The TPPA Annual Photographic Competition is open to all photographers, however, only TPPA Members are eligible for trophies and awards. Please log in to our TPPA Member Services site and confirm your membership in TPPA. Through this competition, TPPA members are also eligible for trophies, ribbons, and TPPA Fellowship Points.

The purpose of this competition is to allow photographers to enter digital photographic images or digital albums to be judged against a standard of excellence using the 12 Elements of a Merit Image. (For more information, go to PPA.com/IPC.) In addition to the twelve elements, for an image to be merit-worthy in the wedding competition, additional evaluation may be considered for the entries that illustrate the personality of the subject or subjects and the story of the wedding as well as the artistic and technical skills of the image maker. Judges will keep in mind that the maker has limited control over many aspects of a wedding. For example: subject matter, environment and time of day. Ultimately, additional consideration may be given to the maker for technically and artistically executing at a merit level in spite of challenges involved at an actual wedding.

Images and all elements of an image in the Wedding Competition Images not created during the time constraints of the actual event may be entered in the TPPA’s Photographic Open competition. The entrant or entrants must have captured all elements of the final submission from that wedding. Images in the Wedding Competition should reflect the personality or personalities of the subject(s) or the story of the wedding as well as the personality, artistic, and technical skills of the image maker. Images should include some kind of visual wedding reference(s). The original captured image (in RAW, jpg, or film) must be available if requested by the TPPA Photographic Competition Committee.

1. 1. All entries must be registered at www.printcompetition.com.
   2. Entrants may only submit digital files for judging.
   3. No changes to your entry are permitted once the entry deadline has passed. No refunds will be issued after the entry fee is paid.
   4. Entrants do not need to be TPPA members to compete in the Wedding Competition, however, only TPPA members are eligible for trophies and awards.
   5. Images which are entered into PPA’s District Competition are also eligible for the TPPA Annual Competition provided the images are submitted to TPPA’s competition prior to the start of the District Competition.
   6. Once an image has been awarded a Merit vote in PPA District or IPC competition, or any previous TPPA Annual Photographic Competition, it may not be entered into the TPPA Annual Competition again. This includes any image from an album that has received a Merit vote.

ELIGIBILITY

1. Entrant must have captured and created the original exposure or exposures.
2. All processing, manipulation and printing or rendering, were done by the entrant or under their direct supervision.
3. The entrant has obtained and has access to all necessary releases (model or property) and agrees to hold TPPA harmless against all claims and liabilities arising out of TPPA’s display, publication and promotion or other use of each image submitted to TPPA.
4. The entrant’s name shall not appear anywhere in or on the face of the entry.
5. A maximum of eight entries is allowed in the Wedding Competition.
6. A minimum of 4 entries is required to be considered for the Top Wedding Entries Award (Highest scoring average with a minimum of 4 entries in the Wedding Competition) and the Top 10 in Texas Award (Top 10 scoring averages from the overall competition). Each album counts as one entry and album scores are included in overall case scores.
7. No entry will be eligible if it has been made under the supervision of an instructor or as a class assignment. All images submitted must be self-directed. Images created in an educational environment under direct supervision from an instructor are ineligible
8. Any entry that has been created from an existing photograph, portrait, graphic or any other artwork produced by another person is a violation of the competition rules and will not be judged, accepted or displayed. If an entry, in the good-faith opinion of the TPPA Photographic Competition Chairman, violates copyright, trademark or any other applicable law, that entry shall not be displayed or published.
9. Entries of the same subject in multiple images will be allowed, as long as the images are entirely different concepts.
10. Entry media includes digital files, and digital albums.

REGISTRATION

Registration opens March 1, 2021. All registration takes place at: www.printcompetition.com.

WEDDING COMPETITION CATEGORIES

You must designate one of the below categories for each entry.

• WEDDING OPEN: Images eligible in the Wedding Open category must be created during the time constraints of the actual event.
• WEDDING ALBUM: All images included in the Wedding Album must be created during the time constraints of the actual wedding event. You may enter as a single maker or a multi-maker; (2) photographers creating a minimum of twenty images each from the same wedding.

DIGITAL SUBMISSION

See Video Tutorial: PPA.com/IPC_tutorials

1. Files must be sized so the longest dimension is 4000 pixels. Each file must contain an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10. In most cases, total file size should not exceed 3.5 MB. Larger files will be accepted when necessary so long are they are JPG/10.
2. Files are to be named, Image 1.JPG No underscores or special characters

DIGITAL ALBUM ENTRY

See Video Tutorial: PPA.com/IPC_tutorials

All albums must be submitted in digital form

1. All page/spread files must have the longest file dimension at 4000 pixels, have an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10.
2. Each page/spread file may contain as many images as you desire.
3. An entry shall contain a minimum of 5 page/spread files up to 36 page/spread files.
4. Files are to be numbered in viewing order using two digits, i.e. 01 jpg, 02 jpg, 03 jpg, etc.
5. All individual files must be compressed into a single ZIP file. ZIP file must be named: Album Title.zip (e.g. Summer Wedding.zip).
6. Studio identification or entrant’s name cannot appear on any file within the album entry.
7. Each entrant must use the same title when entering a multi‐maker album.

VIEWING CONDITIONS FOR IMAGE REVIEW

For color management help, see Video Tutorial: PPA.com/IPC_tutorials

• Digital Files: Monitor Settings, D65, 120 cd/m2, 2.20 gamma

DEADLINES AND FEES

– Entry Deadline is 7:00pm CDT., March 24, 2021.

-TPPA is holding three competitions: Photographic Open Competition, Artist Competition and Wedding Competition. Entrants may enter up to eight entries in each competition.

-Entry Fee is $15 per image.

-Entries include any combination of digital entries and digital album entries.

– $10.00 per image for image critiques. Please allow 4 weeks following the completion of the competition.

– Check out the entire list of awards from the TPPA Annual Photographic Competition.

Note: Failure to comply with these rules may result in disqualification of entry. The decision of the TPPA Photographic Competition Chairman is final.

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