To celebrate the release of our newest wedding tutorial, Fstoppers is giving away a free flight and accommodations to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai! One lucky reader will fly out to GPP during March 2013 to attend one of the coolest photo workshops on the planet. If you win, you will pick the workshops you want to attend as well as win digital copies of Peter Hurley's The Art Behind The Headshot and Fstoppers' How to Become a Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer. All the juicy details are inside this post
In order to make this contest easy to enter and accessible to everyone, we have allowed readers to enter in three ways. Anyone over the age of 18 can enter and you can be from any country in the world. You can enter across all three platforms to increase your chances of winning.
Enter through Fstoppers.com:
Simply leave an encouraging comment in the Disqus bar below to enter. Any vulgar or inappropriate comments will be removed and disqualified.
Enter through Facebook:
Like Fstoppers and Gulf Photo Plus on Facebook and leave an encouraging comment in the Win A Free Trip To Gulf Photo Plus post on our Facebook feed. Due to the fact that we failed to mention it in the video, "liking" Gulf Photo Plus' Facebook page is not mandatory.
Enter through Twitter:
Tweet the following message in it's entirety to enter. While multiple tweets won't increase your chances, they will give you Karma points with the Fstoppers staff :)
"Follow @fstoppers and @gulfphotoplus and retweet this message to win a free trip to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai http://bit.ly/US4SYy"
All entries must be made between now and Friday January 18th, 2013 at 11:59 pm US Eastern Time. One "semi finalist" from each of the three platforms will be randomly picked. One of those three names will be randomly picked from a Nikon Coffee mug as the lucky winner! Stay tuned for an announcement on Monday January 21st to see who will be packing their bags and meeting us out in Dubai.
What is the grand prize?
The flight and hotel will be covered by Fstoppers (up to a maximum of $3000). Make sure you can schedule time off from whatever you might be doing between March 1st - 8th. The trip is non refundable if you are not able to attend in which case a random semi finalist will be chosen to take your place. Gulf Photo Plus is supplying a winner with an all access workshop pass for any workshops that have availability.
You will also receive a copy of our newest wedding tutorial: How To Become A Professional Commercial Wedding Photographer. You can learn more about this in the video below.
The winner will also receive a copy of Peter Hurley's tutorial, The Art Behind Headshot. You can learn more about that here:
If you have purchased either of the DVD's or your ticket's to Dubai for Gulf Photo Plus and you happen to win, we will reimburse you for everything you have already purchased. Good luck to everyone who enters and I hope you are as excited about this as we are here at Fstoppers.
What an incredible contest! Good luck to all!
Nice! An unique opportunity. Please, if I become a finalist, I want my name on a A4 sized paper :D
hah that made me laugh, all entries will be on the same sized paper
I understand Dubai has a.. "sun", I believe they call it. I dimly recall talk of such a thing, but I'd very much appreciate the opportunity to verify its existence for myself.
THIS is AWESOME and i would LOVE to go!
this would be the best trip ever!!
No matter who ends up winning, that is so very cool that you all are doing this. Of course, I'd love to be in the drawing. Either way, keep up the great work guys!
This would be an amazing opportunity!
I would love the chance to visit Dubai....Burj Khalifa FTW!
Awesome City and an Awesome opportunity!
I'm new to photography and it'll be really great to learn from a very special workshop like this. Yay!
Great contest! Way to kick off the launch of the DVD release! I want to see the protog shoot out!
Peter/Patrick, send me to Dubai so we can do the second edition of your Las Vegas Penthouse Shoot in the Burj Khalifa!
if you have access to that, I will buy your ticket personally!
I would love the chance to increase my skills with your prize package, im sure great things will come from this. Thank you for providing such a life changing gift!!
Wow, huge prize package! Would love to visit Dubai and do some shooting outside the states!
Wow, huge prize package! Would love to visit Dubai and do some shooting outside the states!
What an amazing opportunity! Thanks so much for offering an adventure like this!
What a great idea for a contest! Can't wait to see who wins! :-)
Sounds like a great prize -- would love to win this trip and learn!
What a great idea for a contest! Can't wait to see who wins! :-)
What an amazing opportunity! Thanks so much for offering an adventure like this!
What an amazing giveaway!!! It would be amazing to win! Best competition yet :)
Sounds like a pretty awesome trip!
as a university student i literaly live from the hand to the mouth, so there is not much money for both travelling & photography. This would be the perfect opportunity to combine both to a perfect mixture. Even if there were only the DVDs to win this would be awesome because that would give me so much help improving my Photography skills...
I would love to finally be able to attend GPP!!!
God that would be sick. Dubai? 'Hell yeah' is what I say.
Good luck to everyone, but most to me !
i would so love to win this. Fstoppers offers so much information already. This trip would be the icing on the cake. The wonderful delicious icing
Would love to go to India, again! And to boost my photography skills at the same time? Double win.
Dubai would be amazing!! This would be awesome!! Thanks for the chance!!
I myself would not be able to attend the event so don't consider me for this.
BUT I HAD TO comment!
WOW what an awesome outstanding giveaway!
THIS is why there is no other sight as good as fstoppers. :)
Good luck to all who enter!
Russ
This is a really grand prize...! love it
I've been wanting to rediscover my love for photography again. And what a way to do it if I win this!
I should win this! I'll take my camera and provide you with too many photos of a high quality.
A trip to Dubai for a workshop would be a dream come true!
Wow what a wonderful opportunity to give away!! Thank you for all of your direction and advice!! You guys ROCK!!! This would be a dream vacation and education all rolled into one!!!
This looks so awesome! Would love to rub shoulders with some of the great photographers there!
This is awesome, would love to attend!
Whoa, this post just MADE MY DAY!! =) Whoo-hoo! You guys are awesome, thanks for the chance to win this trip AND the coveted Fstoppers Wedding Video (which I am equally stoked about)!
Those DVD's alone would be awesome to win but a trip to Dubai for two weeks. This is what dreams are made off.
Fstoppers has not only been a great resource for BTS, reviews, and other photography information, but they're also very generous by offering a chance to go to Dubai and learn from some of the best photographers in the world at Gulf Photo Plus. This is huge for them and huge for whoever wins the trip.
That is incredible, someone will be getting very exciting news!
I've been a follower of Fstoppers for several years now. Fstoppers has been a great source of inspiration for me, and has helped fuel my love of photography. Thank you for giving us the chance to win such an amazing trip.
Wedding - dream day for the couple celebrating; travel - dream of many photographers; f-stoppers - making uber-dreams come true... Rock on!
Going to GPP would be amazing. But there's no way I could win getting name drawn from a NIKON lens mug ha!
I'd just love to visit but can't afford it :/
An absolutely generous prize and a fantastic opportunity! Hope it is me!
What a wonderful opportunity this will be for the winner! Crossing my fingers that it is me!!! :D
This sounds like a great experience. Thanks for the opportunity to win.