The booth photographer Larry Berman with Xena and Elvis    Read More…>>

I noticed that Howard Alan is using Google AdSense as part of his advertising campaign for the Pittsburgh Shadyside art show show this weekend    Read More…>>

Here’s an example of an improved booth image.     Read More…>>

From time to time I’m going to post examples of either my jury slide photography or jury images I’ve fixed. Here’s an example of a glass vessel that was photographed in an art gallery    Read More…>>

With the recent upgrade, ZAPP increased the enlarged image size that monitor jurors see from 700 to 750 pixels. My first response was it was too large for some monitors and some jurors wouldn’t be able to see the entire image. It appears I was correct.    Read More…>>

Photography is a medium of multiple originals and should not be confused with the word reproduction, which means the original already exists before it is printed. Painters who reproduce their originals shouldn’t use the term “print”, but instead should use the term    Read More…>>

Despite what we artists see in our profiles when enlarging the images, the jurors see it differently. And actually the jurors see it almost exactly like they’ve seen it before except for one difference. That being the enlarged size of the images are now 750 long dimension instead of 700 long dimension. They see our […]    Read More…>>

  Outdoor art shows usually prefer you submit an outdoor booth picture with your application. And one of the top art shows actually requires it. Not in so many words, but they contact each applicant that doesn’t have an outdoor booth image in their application asking if they have one they can substitute for the […]    Read More…>>

I created the JuryImages.com web site as a free resource for artists applying to art shows. It’s a two part web site offering free ZAPP or JAS image formatting in one part, and a way to test and compare different image presentations in the other part.    Read More…>>

This is about squaring your images with black borders. I recommend adding black borders to square the images, because if you don’t, ZAPP will do it for you when you apply to any of the shows that project the images – the top shows.    Read More…>>

Someone has been making really bad decisions about our jury images, the only thing we have between an application and an acceptance. Non squared horizontals are appearing almost twice the size as squared and non squared verticals or squared horizontals.    Read More…>>

One of the most asked questions by artists trying to choose which of their artwork items to photograph, or which of their images to use for jurying, is what is the definition of consistent. Is it all one color, as in    Read More…>>

Prior to the ZAPP system upgrade,  image file names could be used to identify images and to figure out which version of duplicate images was the newest. Images were numbered consecutively as they were uploaded so newer images had higher file name numbers. the ZAPP image identification number  How to find your ZAPP image identification […]    Read More…>>

As artists, our jury images are the most important asset we have in being able to get into art shows. Don’t ever forget it, and make sure the shows and application systems treat your images with respect.    Read More…>>

Choosing a digital camera is a personal decision. I’m a big fan of compact point and shoot type cameras that are capable of capturing high quality images. For all around use in a very compact size, I usually carry     Read More…>>

How to photograph a painting that is framed under glass. One of a series of articles about photographing artwork. Let me start off saying that this technique is for creating jury images, not necessarily for making reproductions of the painting. photographing a painting under glass What I do is photograph the painting from an angle […]    Read More…>>

Aging Deadheads. Yesterday was August 1st and it would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday. In memory of the occasion, they ran the Grateful Dead Movie as a special event at select theaters all over the country.If you are a Deadhead or have enjoyed listening to their music, take two hours out of your life, kick back and enjoy the closest thing to a Grateful Dead concert next time it plays. The audience at the showing I was at got really into it, hooting and cheering at the end of songs, and at one point someone stood up and started dancing and had to be told to sit down.    Read More…>>