Enter This Online Baby Photo Contest Now
January 21, 2010
When you are enjoying taking photos of your adorable baby, you might be thinking of capturing that smile and those sparkling eyes to look back on in the future. You are probably not thinking about paying for college and scholarship funds. But now you can combine the two with the latest online baby photo contest.
The Regis and Kelly Baby Contest 2010 offers a scholarship fund worth $125,000 as first prize, something that could make your baby’s future education secure and save you a lot of worries. And you have a chance of winning that prize. The deadline is the 29th January at 5pm Eastern time, so you have eight more days to capture the perfect shot of your beautiful baby.
While the photo contest is about how cute your baby is, an important factor is your skills as a photographer. Judges are not looking for professional studio portraits, but they do look for good complimentary lighting, good composition and sharp focus: all the things that show off how cute your baby really is and make a satisfying portrait. They also look for photos with an intimate happy feel, so if you can capture your baby in a happy mood relating directly to you behind the camera, you are on the right track.
This contest is for children from the age of 6 months to 48 months on January 5th 2010. You must be resident in the US or Canada.
Guidelines for the photo itself state that the photo must be recent, taken within the past month. It must not have been taken by a professional photographer, but you may use lighting and photographic techniques to get the best photo possible. If you are submitting a photo to this contest, check the format and size requirements first. A simple precaution like this will make sure your photo gets through to the judging stage and has a chance to win.
So look through all the photography tips on our site, take a quick online photography course, grab your camera and your baby and start photographing now. You could win a fantastic prize and, even if you don’t win, you’ll have a beautiful selection of photos to put in your baby album and remember these precious times forever. Look out for other baby photo contests to enter your best photos into, as there are several more worth entering. Just make sure that you don’t enter the same photo into more than one competition, or it could be disqualified. If you take plenty of photos you should get loads of great ones and plenty of choice.
Mum and Photographer
Take More Photos This Year and Enter An Online Baby Photo Contest
January 5, 2010
A new year is here and the kids are already back at school in many places, Christmas trees are being taken down and the holidays are but a memory, as we look forward into a fresh year, full of good resolutions to make a difference. If you are looking to improve your photography this year a simple resolution will do: I resolve to take more photos this year. The more photos you take the more you will improve. One way to give yourself motivation to do this is to enter an online baby photo contest every month.
There are many competitions online that ask you to send in pictures of your kids. Some of them are just barely concealed attempts at advertising a product, but a few of them have genuine prizes and are worth entering regularly. If you want a chance to win $1000 each month with your cutest photo of your child or baby, then the CuteKid Photo Contest is the one to go for. Not only does it have great prizes but you have a chance that your child will be spotted by national casting agencies, who are always on the look out for new faces.
The standards of photography are quite high, so you can help yourself have a better chance to win by following an online photography course, or just by reading through some of our photography tips elsewhere on this site. Use this contest as a reason to take lots of photos of your baby or child every month, trying to experiment with different natural light situations as you go. You’ll learn so much about what makes a great photograph just by doing this. Make it fun for your child too so that you have a good chance of getting a brilliant smile and a laughing light in their eyes.
When it comes to portraits the most important element is the eyes. Eyes must be in sharp focus even if the rest of the face falls away into soft focus. Reflected light in the eyes also makes a portrait come alive, so concentrate on getting a wonderful picture of your kids with eyes shining. Take loads of photos in different situations, after all it doesn’t cost a thing on digital, and then send in your best photo to a photo contest this month. Enter every month for a year and see what happens. At the very least you’ll have lots of gorgeous portraits of your child to share with the family.
Mum and Photographer
Great American Baby Photo Contest
December 23, 2009
Do you have the cutest baby in America? Now is your chance to find out on the Great American Baby Photo Contest website. This is a fun, free way to share your baby’s picture or to look at other cute babies in America. The website launched in 2006 by a father who loves taking pictures of his two girls. In the spirit of friendly competition contestants are voted on by the public which has logged into the website. The contestant with the most votes will win $2,500.00.
How to Enter
So you are ready to show America that your baby is the cutest? First you need to create an account so you can log into the website. You will need to confirm your email address to have an account. The website states that this is to help prevent fraud in the voting process. The account is free and you need one if you are entering the contest or even to vote. Once you are log in you can upload up to 6 photos of your child but remember each photo is voted on separately. Your child must be between the ages of 0-48 months old to qualify for the contest. Only the parent or legal guardian who is over the age of 18 can submit photos of the child. The contest administrators do review each photo before allowing it to be posted for viewing. You must own the photo or have the rights to use the photo. The photo cannot be altered or you will be disqualified. Once your photo is approved, they will post your photo as a finalist for the month. You can a link to email family and friends that you have entered the contest so they can vote. A voter must be over the age of 18, a US resident and in a state that is allowed by law. Each contest is one month long as long as they receive 2,500 entries. If they do not receive enough entries they will roll those pictures into the next month’s contest but everyone’s prior votes are deleted for the new contest. You can vote once a day for your favorite photo. Are you wondering how they can afford to give away $2,500 per contest? They have sponsors that offer the money for the contest in exchange for advertising on the website. You are under no obligation to complete the offers by these companies. If there is a tie the prize money will be split among the winners.
Make sure to check out this contest and all the rules. This is an easy way to enter your child in a beauty contest without all the fuss.
Enter A Cute Baby Photo Contest For Fun To Improve Your Photography Skills
October 6, 2009
Now summer is definitely over and the leaves are turning, our kids are back at school and there seem to be fewer opportunities for taking photographs of our children. All the vacation snaps are a distant memory; we’ve shared them with our family, perhaps had a few prints made. But fall shouldn’t mean putting our cameras away until the holiday season gears us up again. Babies and children grow so quickly that a couple of months can make a big gap in our photo albums. To give you a motivation to keep photographing your kids, why not commit to entering a cute baby photo contest every month.
Cute baby and kid photo contests are usually free to enter and offer all sorts of prizes and opportunities. The biggest ones are used by talent scouts to find new child models for advertising campaigns and movies. But you don’t need to have an ambition for your child to be the next Dakota Fanning to enter a photo contest. Enter just for fun, as a reason to take plenty of photos of your baby and improve your photography skills.
When you start looking at the winning entries from past months you will start to get a feel of the elements of a successful child portrait. Of course the cuteness of the child does play a part, but the difference between a winning photo and an also ran will usually lie in the photography rather than the model. Look at how the light falls on the child’s face; is it harsh sunlight that makes the child screw their eyes up? Probably not; winning photos usually have soft reflected light that makes the child’s skin look luminous but doesn’t cast dark shadows.
See if you can recreate those lighting conditions yourself. If your children are willing models, get them to move around; position them, one at a time in different places around your home and garden. Try photographing them with their back to the sunlight; take photos on a rainy day; stand them side on to a white wall that reflects light back on them; photograph them inside, standing beside a big window that lets in lots of indirect light. Take several pictures in each different place and note down where you took each set of pictures and at which time of day. Then look at them all on your computer. Maybe you will have caught a brilliant picture already, but if you haven’t, look at each photo and see which places have the best light.
Next time you and your child feel like a photo session, return to those places and take loads more photos until you have caught a winning expression on your child’s face in gorgeous, soft light, which may well get you into the finals of a cute kid photo contest.
Mum and Photographer
Free Your Child To Be Himself For Great Pictures To Enter In A Photo Contest
September 21, 2009
As you sort your scrapbook photos into their themed pages grab a few of those fantastic snapshots and enter them into a free child photo contest. I’ve just been getting around to doing mine as fall rolls in and the evenings get longer. I’ve found a great contest site with monthly themes. I’ve already missed entering some really cute summer fun pictures, but Halloween is my favorite time of year and I am getting ready to load up some truly adorable costumes.
I just love Halloween; the costumes, the decorations, the candy. It doesn’t get much better than make believe on a sugar rush. To sweeten the deal FaerieCon is the very next weekend in Baltimore, so I have even more excuses to assemble fun costumes for myself and my little one. I have more pairs of wings than sunglasses, so the only difficulty is picking which ones to wear and trying to convince my friends to dress up with me.
I had three costumes last year for my son’s first Halloween. I spent hours propping Aiden on the couch in different outfits surrounded by pumpkins and candy. At a mere two months old the challenge was keeping him upright, now the challenge is to catch him. Getting good pictures is a full time endeavor. I may lose my keys on a daily basis but I always know where my camera is.
If Halloween isn’t your thing, there is still a wide variety of other themes to choose from. You can enter those holiday photos at the end of the year and the pictures of your little ones helping you in the kitchen as the year begins. Even if you don’t have more creative display plans for your pictures you can order photo books and other products from the contest websites with the pictures you enter.
In the long run it is actually a time saver, whether you use it to order a quick scrapbook or use the themes to inspire you in more hands on projects. Plus, there is the added bonus of the thrill of the contest with a variety of prizes should your photo win. Enter today, tomorrow, and next year, whenever you have a photo that fits the headline load it up, it’s free, fast, and fun.
A Cute Baby Photo Contest Could End Up In The Movies
September 8, 2009
Have you ever wondered where they find the cute kids who feature in movies and advertising? Are they related to the director or the adult actors? Well the truth is it could just as easily be your cute kid in that movie, if you are prepared to put in the work and take some really great photos of your baby. A cute baby photo contest is a brilliant entrée into the showbiz world, if that is what you’re after for your child. Start by entering one of the monthly cute kid contests and you could find your child called up for a casting in New York for a nationwide advertising campaign.
If you’ve got twins and triplets, you know how much hard work goes into raising them. But if you’re tempted by the movie business that hard work and love could pay off in a big way, because identical twins or triplets are in huge demand for photo shoots and movies. You can keep an eye on all the latest casting calls on www.thecutekid.com and send in your kids’ photos to the casting agents, as well as to the photo contests and give your kids a chance to be discovered.
There are a few things to bear in mind before your dreams of fame and fortune for your kids start you planning out your big night at the Oscars!
• First of all, most castings take place in the major cities, with New York and LA top favorites, so it helps a lot if you live within easy distance.
• Second, your child needs to have an out-going temperament to enjoy this sort of activity. Kids only look good in photos when they’re having fun, so if your child doesn’t like bright lights and talking to strangers, then they are unlikely to shine on the casting circuit.
• Doing the rounds of the castings can be time-consuming for you as well as your child. You may have to wait all day to be seen and end up being disappointed, as only one child will be chosen at the end, and it may not be yours. Go for fun and be prepared to enjoy it as a day out and a chance to meet other Moms and kids. Let your child think that it is a fun day out, and don’t weigh him down with too much expectation.
• The starting point for these all-important castings is a set of great photos of your children that really show their personality. Even if you don’t end up on the casting circuit those photos could win you prizes in the monthly and annual photo contests, so it’s worth spending plenty of time photographing your child with that in mind.
There have been some amazing success stories of kids who have started off winning a cute kid photo contest and gone on to featuring in movies. So indulge your dreams a little and start taking pictures of your kids. You never know what might happen and in the mean time you can have the fun of the photos themselves. After all you already know that your child is the star of the show!
There Is No Age Gap Between The Unborn And Baby Photo Contest Genre, Enter As Soon As You See The Second Blue Line.
August 24, 2009
My baby boy, Aiden, turns one year old tomorrow. I can’t believe how time flies. One year ago this very minute I was begging a doctor to admit me and start my epidural. Twenty hours later I finally got to hold my beautiful baby boy. While I was collecting pictures to display at his party I came across many of my pregnant belly that filled the gap in my memory about the unborn baby photo contest I entered.
I think pregnancy is a beautiful, magical time. It thrills me that they hold pregnant belly contests; it’s a real moral booster. I watched my previously twenty-five inch waist expand to a whopping forty-eight, if it weren’t for the sweet adoration that most people give that growing bump I would have cried even more as I outgrew the maternity clothes meant to house it.
My husband took pictures all through nine month waiting period, but around month six I found a very amusing contest that encouraged entrants to compare their bump with their spouses. I had already asked my mother for a photo shoot of us so we could show our son how we happily awaited him. After dozens of photos I convinced my husband to bare his belly against mine, resulting in our very favorite photo from that time.
Bumping bumps.
In fact, my aunts displayed a very large copy at my baby shower and just about everyone begged for their own copy. I even entered it into the contest, but the winner’s had a photo where their bellies matched inch for inch. There are other great traditions for pregnant belly as well, decorating it or making a cast, they are all just fascinating.
How many contests can you enter with a popped out belly button and pants that won’t zip? Not many. If you run across one, whether you are barely showing or about to burst, enter and show off the little one that is on its way.
Just like with the baby, every day provides new and wonderful opportunities to capture memories. You may not think right now that you will want to remember the days when you didn’t fit behind the steering wheel, but trust me someday you will. Even if it’s not until your own little one is having a baby, you still have to take the picture today before the moment is gone.
Enter A Child Photography Contest – A Fun Way To Improve Your Skills
August 18, 2009
None of us need an excuse to photograph our kids. They are the reason in themselves; from cute babyhood when every smile just has to be recorded, to the emerging characters of toddlers and the gap tooth grins of growing children. Sometimes it’s nice though to have an extra reason to put new photographic skills into practice; to take photos of your kids for a specific purpose. If you’re intent on improving your photography skills then it’s a great idea to think about entering a child photography contest.
There are lots of cute kid photo contests about. Online you can probably choose from hundreds. If you look carefully you’ll find that some are genuine contests with experienced expert judges and worthwhile prizes, while others are barely disguised attempts at marketing products, with the products themselves as prizes. Others will offer prizes of say a voucher for a canvas print.
It’s up to you to decide what your priorities are when you decide to enter one of these photo contests. If you’re just doing it for fun and to improve your photography, then the prizes aren’t important, but it does make sense to choose a contest where some sort of photographic quality standards are used in the selection process. Look for contests that explain their selection criteria. Photos may be short-listed by experts and then voted for by the public, or judged completely by a panel of photo industry professionals.
Once you’ve picked a contest that you’d like to enter, have a look at previous winning photos and see what makes them stand out. Besides the cuteness of the child’s face and expression, look at the light; often soft natural daylight falling from one side makes for a photo with winning appeal. How are the kids dressed in the winning photos? Often simple but pretty clothes enhance the cute kid factor. Probably the most important element in a child portrait is the eyes. Look at any portrait and you’ll notice that the eyes are what draw you in. So when you’re taking photos of your child make sure that you get their eyes in sharp focus so that you can catch the sweetness of their expression.
Most photo contest have monthly divisions and then the winning photos from those go into an annual contest which has the grand prizes. This means that you can enter every month to stand a better chance of winning. Challenging yourself to produce a great picture to submit every month is a great way to add motivation to work on your photography skills. Start with a basic online course and use the photo contests as a reason to keep photographing your kids and trying out new ways of using your camera. After all, you already know that your child is the cutest kid in the world. The challenge is for your photo skills to show that to the world!
You Don’t Have To Enter A Beautiful Baby Photo Contest To Have A Fun Modeling Shoot.
July 31, 2009
This weekend someone sent me a link to YouTube, which of course led me to click on more video clips. It is like the perfect pick-me-up, a one minute video clip can have you laughing for hours. My friends and I still chuckle about Charlie Bit My Finger and we all saw if for the first time over a year ago. One of the clips I just saw was the winner of a beautiful baby photo contest bouncing through her photo shoot and I was inspired.
My son is only a year old, so I am currently doing mostly paparazzi photos of him. I take pictures of whatever he is doing and try to catch great shots because he is at that age where posing him, or saying “Give me a smile” is a lost cause. I realized that I missed the fun I used to have with my niece and nephew when I babysat. So having a few days free, I packed up Aiden and drove to New York to surprise my family.
Everyone was thrilled when we showed up, since we don’t visit very often. I got my niece and nephew really riled up and we all piled into the play room because it was raining. At ages two and three, they are thrilled to be the center of attention. My mom and I both got our cameras out and started taking pictures of the little wild ones.
Lately Aiden’s favorite activity is crawling under and over anything so unsurprisingly he started going under the art table and peeking out before he’d loop out and do it again. Dylan and Madie grabbed all their new toys to show me and started posing with them. Dylan, all boy, all the time, started hunting imaginary animals with a squirt gun which at some point turned into a whole cowboy ensemble.
Aiden watching his cousins
Madie started by mimicking her brother, but soon added heels and hats from her toy box and tried with all her might to get her swimsuit on over her jeans. I did little prompting, I just sang songs with them and asked what they were trying to be and went with it. It was a cross between a New York photo shoot and show and tell and it was thoroughly entertaining.
Just like the little YouTube model, the kids were having a great time in their element, and Dylan and Madie were able to give me very cute, very real poses. I printed a trio of peeking pictures before I left; Dylan peeking over his gun, Madie from under her hat, and Aiden from beneath the easel which made the most adorable collage. If your little ones are old enough to ham it up, grab your camera and give them an hour of your attention. You will probably end up with tons of contest worthy photos, even if that’s not your intention, it’s not a big leap from pretending to model to actually modeling.
Your Cutest Baby Pictures Could Win Big in a Photo Contest
July 28, 2009
Every Mom knows that her baby is the cutest baby ever, we don’t need to win a photo contest to prove that to ourselves! Submitting photos of our kids to some of the top online photo contests can be fun though and, more to the point in this uncertain economy, gives you great chances of winning cash prizes. Cash that can start off a savings account for your child and give him a head start in life
One of the biggest online photo contests offers monthly cash prizes, but also an option to enter their annual contest, with a top prize of a $25,000 college tuition fund. Their biggest draw card is that the contests are judged by photography industry professionals, so if you like the idea of your child modeling for photo shoots and earning an income before they’re even out of diapers this could be a great starting point!
The photographic industry is always needing child models. Just think of all the products that feature gorgeous babies and kids in their advertisements and packaging. Casting agents need a constant supply of photogenic babies and very often they look to high profile photo contests to snap up new talent.
Joining the child modeling circuit is not for every baby and mom, but can be great fun if you are both sociable, like to get out and about and meet new people. There will be a round of castings where you’ll meet other moms and babies and have time to chat while you wait to be seen. If your baby is chosen for a job, then you’ll have all the excitement of the photo shoot in a professional studio. You’ll be able to keep a scrapbook of professionally shot pictures of your baby and also start up a special savings account for their earnings. There’s nothing like starting a college fund early!
When our first two kids were babies, we were perfectly placed for them to have careers as child models. We ran a London photographic studio that was hired out to magazines for fashion shoots. Models, casting agents and photographers came through all day long. But apart from the photos that my photographer husband took of them, they only once featured in a professional fashion shoot. The photographer was a friend of ours who they knew, but they were just too shy and didn’t really like being surrounded by the bustle of a shoot, with stylists brushing their hair and arranging clothes. After that we kept them out of the spotlight and just carried on taking lots of photos of them ourselves.
So think about your child’s temperament if you’re considering child modeling for them. Outgoing children who love being the center of attention and thrive on new environments will love it, shy stay at home babies won’t. My daughter, once an unwilling, red-cheeked-from-teething, baby model, is now nine and wants to be a photographer herself. She obviously always knew which side of the camera lens she should be!
Whichever type your child is, enter their photos in a cute kid contest anyway. You can enter every monthly contest for free and only pay an entry fee to enter the big prize, once a year contest, if you want to. If you’re lucky and win a cash prize you can start building up a savings account for them, to start them on their future careers one day!
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