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And the Winner of the Phottix Portrait Kit Is…

Chris Gampat
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12/03/2014
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Last Updated on 12/03/2014 by Chris Gampat

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Before I even continue and truthfully start this post I want to say a couple of words.

First off: thank you.

Thank you for a seriously great competition of judging almost 1000 images with loads and loads of great portrait photos. Many of you already demonstrate admirable knowledge of lighting and others demonstrated a wonderfully creative eye in their work.

There were loads and loads of votes on a key select images, and as we stated before, the popular vote has not won.

We found a lot of great photos in the pool, but only one has won the studio portrait kit from Phottix. However, we’re going to profile three other photographers whose work is exemplary.

So who won?

The Grand Prize winner is Pile Divlje with this photo (2 votes)

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But the runners up?

Corey Boland (255 votes)

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Bruno Aranda Arredondo (52 votes)

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Sasha Oleksiichuk (4 votes)

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All runner ups will receive a profile of them as a photographer on our site. Please contact us at editors[at]thephoblographer[dot[com. We will try to contact you ASAP.

Congratulations to the grand prize winner and to all of you for putting up one heck of a contest.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.