LIPPVA Qualification
Licentiateship is the first level of qualification within the IPPVA and shows the photographer or videographer to be a qualified professional person. It shows a good level of skill and competence.
Judging of Licentiateship photography panels is by IPPVA Associates and Fellows.
HOW
Once your application has been approved (see criteria above), you will be asked to submit your panel of images.
Requirements for the submission
Photographers
Please submit 20 images that you think represent your best work.
Requirements
- A mixture of disciplines is allowed, however, please submit a minimum of 5 images per discipline.
- If you are specialising in a particular genre, you are encouraged to submit 20 images for that particular speciality (Weddings, portrait, commercial landscape etc).
- When submitting wedding or portrait images, please don’t include more than 2 images from the same wedding, commercial or portrait sitting.
- For commercial photography (incl. Advertising, press & PR, Fashion etc) no more than 50% of images can be from self-commissioned/personal work.
Image guidelines
The images must be 4000px on the longest side. 72 DPI
Images MUST have no photographer/studio name on them; if so, they will automatically be disqualified. Images must be numbered JPEG 1 to 20 as you want them to be presented in the panel.
The work will be assessed for:
- Camera Work
- Post-production
- Composition
- Use of light
- Posing (when applicable)
While the criteria above are here to guide you, the panel judges are looking to see that the photographer is proficient in using the camera in a technically correct way and producing images of high quality.
Videographers
Please submit 3 links to video samples that you think represent your best work.
Requirements
- A mixture of disciplines is allowed, however, if you are specialising in a particular genre, you are encouraged to submit 3 videos for that particular speciality (Weddings, commercial, etc).
- Length of videos must be between 3 and 15 minutes.
Video Guidelines
Please provide links to anonymous video file on Dropbox (not logo/names).
The work will be assessed for:
- Visual Impact
- Technical Ability
- Composition / Editing
- Sound