1. AGENDA
• Important Dates
• Submitting Photos
• Voting Process
• Photo Tipsfrom AngelaWu

2. IMPORTANT DATES
• Submissions have begun!
• Photos muse be submitted no later than 11:59
pm EDT on June 28
• Voting takes places noon EDT on July 15 and
ends at noon EDT on July 31.

3. SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS
• Your organization may submit up to 3 photos
from your GlobalGiving project page(s)
• Your organization may submit photos from
multiple projects
• Your photos must relate to your project(s)

4. UPLOADING PHOTO(S)
• Here is how to upload a photo to your project page
Photo Courtesy of Awamaki

5. FINDING YOUR PHOTO’S URL
Here’s how you do that
Photo Courtesy ofAgros
International

6. CATEGORIES
• Your photo’s category is automatically chosen
using your project’s primary theme
Photo Courtesy of the Oregon
Zoo Foundation

7. CATEGORIES
• 5 Categories
– Give Knowledge (education)
– Give Relief (health, disaster recovery)
– Give Support (microfinance, humanitarian assistance,
children)
– Give Hope (economic development, women & girls,
human rights, democracy & government, sport)
– Give Green (environment, animals, climate change,
technology)

8. VOTING PROCESS
• An independent judge (Bud Force) will select
the finalists
• Finalists’ photos will be uploaded on
GlobalGiving’s website for voting on July 15
• Voters will vote on globalgiving.org using their
e-mail address and verification

9. VOTING PROCESS
• Each vote must be confirmed via email. Once a vote
has been made the voter will receive an email from
GlobalGiving to confirm.
• Only upon confirmation will a vote be counted.
• An individual may vote for as many photos as they
wish, but only one vote per photo will count as a
unique vote
http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/v2/poll/photo contest-2012/

10. PRIZES
• The photo with the most unique votes will
win a $1,000 bonus to support their work and
will be featured on the GlobalGiving
homepage for a full day
• The runner-up in each of the 5 categories will
each be featured for a full day on the
GlobalGiving homepage and will be
highlighted in GlobalGiving’s social media
outreach

11. PHOTO TIPS

12. I SEE THE LIGHT
• Natural sunlight
– Early morning or
late
afternoon/golden
hour
– Windows
• Shoot with the light
behind you

13. COMPOSITION FOR THE WIN
Regardless of what
type of camera you’re
using, this is what
matters most and will
set you apart!

14. FOCUS

15. BLUR THE BACKGROUND

16. RULE OF THIRDS

17. RULE OF THIRDS

18. LEADING LINES

19. DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS

20. DO WHAT YOU WANT

21. A FEW FINAL WORDS
• Befriend your subject; tell a compelling story
• Take multiple shots at multiple angles and
then delete the ones you don’t like
• Rules are made to be broken!!!
• Post-process to crop and edit aspects such as
temperature, exposure, contrast
– Photoshop, Lightroom, Picasa, iPhoto

22. Questions?