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Standards and Guidelines
Our goal at Eppic Surf is to assemble the greatest, most current and most comprehensive collection of surf photography in the world. To do this we have created simple mechanisms to display, market, store, sell and license your images, expanding their reach and value in the marketplace. When you upload your images to your Eppic Surf profile, you make them available for purchase as prints and print products, downloads, editorial licenses and stock - all with one simple drag and drop upload.
We encourage all photographers from ameature to professional to participate, however, we have created the following standards and guidelines to ensure we really achieve our goal of the greatest, most current and most comprehensive collection.
1. Edit, Edit, Edit. The best photographers are those who are really good editors. Do not water down your best images by grouping them with marginal images. If you have several images that are similar pick the best one and be done with it. The only time you should have similar images is when you have a really sick sequence. Most photographers edit their takes to 10% or less from any given session. This means if you shot 1000 photos, your edit should have 100 or less.
2. You should have the three most important elements represented in every edited photo: The Wave, The Surfer and The Light. Each of these three elements should be a highlight in your photos. The wave should be Eppic, the surfer should be ultimately engaged with the wave and the light should heavenly.
3. Focus! There is no reason to upload a photo that is out of focus.
4. Lens selection: Use the appropriate lens for each situation. If you don't have a 400mm or 600mm lens, don't shoot at Mavericks. If all you have is a 200mm zoom, shoot at a break like the Wedge, which is suitable for that lens.
5. Use Photoshop! Even the best cameras don't produce good to go images. You should at least click "auto" in levels to see what the photo does. Crop your photos to make sure the composition is as good as it can get. When cropping your photos we recommend you leave the hight, width and dpi blank. This will ensure that you are not resizing your pixels and taking information out of the photo, maintaining the original integrity of the image.
6. Promote your profile! When you upload a sick session, let your friends and customers know that its there. This is how you will make sales and revenue. Eppic Surf photographers promote their profiles in several effective ways. They pass out business cards with their profile URL to the surfers they photograph. They send an image to their small local newspaper to use for publication with an instruction to use their URL as a credit line and information about more photos - eg: Photo by: eppicsurf.com/DaveWaters more photos available at EppicSurf.com. You can also post a link to your sessions on other surf website forums like the Surfer Mag forum. You can post a link to your sessions on your MySpace or Facebook profiles.
Our goal at Eppic Surf is to assemble the greatest, most current and most comprehensive collection of surf photography in the world. To do this we have created simple mechanisms to display, market, store, sell and license your images, expanding their reach and value in the marketplace. When you upload your images to your Eppic Surf profile, you make them available for purchase as prints and print products, downloads, editorial licenses and stock - all with one simple drag and drop upload.
We encourage all photographers from ameature to professional to participate, however, we have created the following standards and guidelines to ensure we really achieve our goal of the greatest, most current and most comprehensive collection.
1. Edit, Edit, Edit. The best photographers are those who are really good editors. Do not water down your best images by grouping them with marginal images. If you have several images that are similar pick the best one and be done with it. The only time you should have similar images is when you have a really sick sequence. Most photographers edit their takes to 10% or less from any given session. This means if you shot 1000 photos, your edit should have 100 or less.
2. You should have the three most important elements represented in every edited photo: The Wave, The Surfer and The Light. Each of these three elements should be a highlight in your photos. The wave should be Eppic, the surfer should be ultimately engaged with the wave and the light should heavenly.
3. Focus! There is no reason to upload a photo that is out of focus.
4. Lens selection: Use the appropriate lens for each situation. If you don't have a 400mm or 600mm lens, don't shoot at Mavericks. If all you have is a 200mm zoom, shoot at a break like the Wedge, which is suitable for that lens.
5. Use Photoshop! Even the best cameras don't produce good to go images. You should at least click "auto" in levels to see what the photo does. Crop your photos to make sure the composition is as good as it can get. When cropping your photos we recommend you leave the hight, width and dpi blank. This will ensure that you are not resizing your pixels and taking information out of the photo, maintaining the original integrity of the image.
6. Promote your profile! When you upload a sick session, let your friends and customers know that its there. This is how you will make sales and revenue. Eppic Surf photographers promote their profiles in several effective ways. They pass out business cards with their profile URL to the surfers they photograph. They send an image to their small local newspaper to use for publication with an instruction to use their URL as a credit line and information about more photos - eg: Photo by: eppicsurf.com/DaveWaters more photos available at EppicSurf.com. You can also post a link to your sessions on other surf website forums like the Surfer Mag forum. You can post a link to your sessions on your MySpace or Facebook profiles.
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