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BLOCKING:
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Report Cards will be sent to entrants Please be sure that this email address
gets included in your “safe” email addresses to assure receipt of these emails
instead of having them blocked by your security system. Also check your Junk
E-Mail or Spam folder to see if your email software placed any messages from
the exhibition there.
REPORT CARD NOTIFICATION
All
participants will receive report card notifications via e-mail. The results of
the exhibition will also be published on our website www.digitalnafotoarhiva.com
JURY MEMBERS (for all sections):
Jennifer
Margaret WEBSTER, MPSA, EFIAP/b, SPSA, SPSA, England
Umberto DERAMO, MPSA, EFIAP/b, GPUCR4 VIP3, AICS, etc. Italy
Ali SAMEI, MFIAP, EFIAP/g ESFIAP, Iran
ALTOGETHER 81 AWARDS!
AWARDS
PSA Gold medals in each section (8 altogether)
SALON Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals in each section (24 altogether)
+ 6 SALON honorable mentions in each section (48 altogether)
DPA Badge for the best Author.
CB - Details of Exhibition
requirements
CONDITIONS OF ENTRYIMAGE AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS This exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the Sponsor or the Exhibition Organizers, in their reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these Conditions of Entry. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.Penalties: Entries will
not be accepted from any entrant who has put on the PSA Penalties List for
Ethics Violation. Entry fees are not refundable in these circumstances
PSA Star
Ratings
To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide
their names and country exactly the same way in each exhibition. Aliases are
not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to
another country. Using one’s name differently in different exhibition exposes
the entrant to the risk that many of their acceptances may not be recognized by
PSA Star Ratings.
Image Creation
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light
sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired
digitally.
Certification:
By virtue of submitting an image, the entrant certifies the work as his
or her own. Images may not incorporate
elements produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, images or art by
others downloaded from the Internet). Aliases are not allowed.
Reproduction
The entrant permits the sponsors to
reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication
and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low
resolution posting on a website. The Photographic Society of America (PSA) may request specific
permission from entrants to reproduce entered images in its educational
materials. The terms of that permission will be mutually agreed between the
entrant and PSA except in the circumstances where the entered image is found
to breach the PSA Ethics Policy. In those circumstances the image may be
reproduced by PSA, without the entrant’s further permission, for educational
purposes to illustrate serious exhibition rule violations. For those
reproductions, the entrant’s name will be withheld.
Entries will not be accepted from entrants who
indicate that their images may not be reproduced in materials related to the
exhibition.” The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright
Alteration and
Computer Generation Subject to Divisional restrictions (particularly Nature, Photo
Travel, and Photojournalism) images may be altered, either electronically or
otherwise, by the entrant; adjustments
to enhance images or creatively modify images are allowed providing the
underlying photograph is retained in a way that is obvious to the viewer. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer, and must
be the sole work of the entrant
Re-use of
accepted images: Any image that has been accepted in this exhibition,
past or present, may not be entered again in the same Division Star Ratings
Class in any future instances of this exhibition. It may, of course, be entered in any other
PSA recognised exhibitions but must
always have the same title.
Re-titling in another language is not allowed.
Entry: An Entry consists of, up to and
including, four (4) images entered by a single entrant into the same Section.
An entrant may only enter a specific Section once. Entrants may not enter identical or
similar images into the same section or different sections of the same
exhibition.
Titles:
Each image
must have a unique title that is a description of the image. That
unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an identical Image into
any and all PSA-Recognized exhibitions. Titles must be 35 characters or fewer.
No titles may be visible to the judges, and nothing in the image may identify
the entrant. Titles may
not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture
filenames such as IMG 471). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers
possibly augmented by a number; or include words such as “untitled” or “no
title”. Titles may not consist solely of numbers unless those numbers are prominently
contained within the image, such as a contestant number in a race.
Color
and Monochrome:
Color and Monochrome images from the same capture that
share substantial pictorial content in common will be considered the same image
and must be given the same title.
PHOTOGRAPHS
AUTHORS MUST FILL OUT
ENTRY FORM AND SUBMIT PHOTOS ONLINE
- Photos must be in JPG file format,
Max. image width (horizontal) is 1920 pix. Max. image height (vertical) is 1080
pix. in 300 dpi. compression 7-12, max 2Mb.
The Exhibition will be conducted in
accordance with the rules of the PSA
An entrant’s images will not be
presented to the judges consecutively.
An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of
judging in that section. Distribution of
images will be in the same round order as submitted by the entrant. At no stage
will a judge be able to view all the entrant’s images together.
JUDGING METHOD
Remote judging of images will be with calibrated
computer monitors (minimum 19 inches) or high definition TV screens at 100% of
the submitted pixel size (1920x1080 pix).
Equipment will be capable
of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution, it will not resize any submitted images or change the aspect ratio of the
original image to “Fit to screen” or to “Fill screen” by monitors or HDTV
equipment.
Oversized
images will be rejected and the entrant required to resubmit their entry with
properly sized images.
All information, including image file names, provided
to the judges for remote judging must retain complete anonymity of the entrants
and not provide the judges with any means of determining any entrant’s personal
details, such as name, email address, or country.
The target acceptance rate will be between 29% and
35% in each section.
DATA PROTECTION
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal
details you have supplied, including physical addresses, email addresses, being
held, processed and used by the exhibition organizers for purposes associated
with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being
sent to organizations that have accorded official recognition, patronage or
accreditation to this exhibition. You acknowledge, agree and accept that by
entering this exhibition, your participation status which includes your first
and last name, name of the country used during registration at the exhibition,
number of sections entered and number of photos entered in those sections will
be made public in a published status list and that the results of your entry
shall be made public in exhibition gallery, exhibition catalog. You also agree
and accept the policy regarding Breaches of Rules of the PSA.
CC - Subject matter and
definitions
Statement on Subject Matter -
applicable to all sections
The fundamental rule that must be
observed at all times and applies
to all sections offered in
exhibitions with PSA recognition is that the
welfare of living creatures is more important than any photograph. This
means that practices such as baiting of subjects with a living creature and
removal of birds from nests, for the purpose of obtaining a photograph, are
highly unethical, and such photographs are not allowed in any exhibition with
PSA recognition. Under no circumstances may a living creature be placed
in a situation where it will be killed, injured or stressed for the purpose of
obtaining a photograph. This rule applies regardless of whether or not the
creature being killed, injured or stressed is visible in the captured image.
There are also concerns about the use
of aerial photography, drones, helicopters, low flying aircraft. These should
not cause any interference with other individuals or animals which causes a
disturbance in their normal activity or disrupt the way any individuals or
animals interact with their environment.
Entrants in PSA recognized exhibitions should comply with all
relevant laws and regulations, associated with aerial photography, in the
country in which the image was taken.
Entry
into PSA recognized exhibitions is conditional on accepting these
policies. The content of images must comply with the General Conditions
and with the Division and Section definitions listed in these conditions.
Images that - in the sole opinion of the judges or the Exhibition Organizers -
do not comply, will be disqualified so the entrant may be aware of the problem
when considering entry into other exhibitions with PSA recognition.
Life Definition in PID-C
The closest definition of Life photos,
pictures of everyday life on which depict people, events, phenomena - Life
itself. Monochrome
images may not be entered in PID Color Sections.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which
applies to all sections
Landscape Definition in PID-C
This category is typically a photograph that captures the presence
of nature and may include sea/oceans/water/underwater.
It can have man-made features (e.g. city skylines) or disturbances
of landscapes, with or without people on photography.
Representational landscapes (more natural and realistic), an
impressionistic landscape or abstract landscape photographs are allowed.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections
Definition
of Woman in PID-C
The closest definition of Woman
section, photography where the only condition is that the subject is female. Monochrome
images may not be entered in PID Color Sections.
Attention is drawn to the PSA
Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections
PSA Monochrome Definition
An image is considered to be
Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains
only shades of grey which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives
the impression of being a greyscale image that has been toned in one color
across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A greyscale or multi-colored image modified
or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning,
multi-toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition
of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.
Greyscale
Monochrome images may be entered for Nature but toned images are not permitted for
these sections.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on
Subject Matter which applies to all sections.
Portrait Definition in PID-M
Our
definition of the Portrait section; a photograph of a person or group of
people who are aware they are being photographed.
An
image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having
no color (i.e. contains only shades of grey which can include pure black and
pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a greyscale image that has been
toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold,
etc.) A greyscale or multi-colored image
modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning,
multi-toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition
of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.
Attention
is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections.
Editing Guidelines for Nature and Photo travel
These sections require images to be truthful records, so
there are limits on the amount of manipulation allowed.
Editing Guidelines
Processing
or editing must be limited to making the image look as close to the original
scene as possible, except that conversion to grayscale monochrome is allowed.
Allowed editing techniques:
· Cropping, straightening and
perspective correction.
· Removal or correction of elements
added by the camera or lens, such as dust spots, noise, chromatic aberration
and lens distortion.
· Global and selective adjustments
such as brightness, hue, saturation and contrast to restore the appearance of
the original scene.
· Complete conversion of color
images to grayscale monochrome.
· Blending of multiple images of
the same subject and combining them in camera or with software (exposure
blending or focus stacking);
· Image stitching – combining
multiple images with overlapping fields of view that are taken consecutively
(panoramas);
Editing techniques that are not
allowed:
· Removing, adding to, moving or
changing any part of an image, except for cropping and straightening.
· Adding a vignette during
processing.
· Blurring parts of the image
during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
· Darkening parts of the image
during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
· All conversions other than to
complete grayscale monochrome.
· Conversion of parts of an image
to monochrome, or partial toning, desaturation or over-saturation of color
Borders
· For
the purpose of this exhibition any border added to a digital file must be a
single border of white or grey, no greater than 3-5 pixels in width.PSA/FIAP Nature
Definition
Content
Guidelines
· Nature photography records
all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This
includes all aspects of the physical world, both animate and inanimate, that
have not been made or modified by humans.
· Nature images must convey the
truth of the scene that was photographed. A well-informed person should be able
to identify the subject of the image and be satisfied that it has been
presented honestly and that no unethical practices have been used to control
the subject or capture the image. Images that directly or indirectly show any
human activity that threatens the life or welfare of a living organism are not
allowed.
· The most important part of a
Nature image is the nature story it tells. High technical standards are
expected and the image must look natural.
· Objects created by humans,
and evidence of human activity, are allowed in Nature images only when they are
a necessary part of the Nature story.
· Photographs of human-created
hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domesticated animals,
human-created hybrid animals and mounted or preserved zoological specimens are
not allowed.
· Images taken with subjects
under controlled conditions, such as zoos, are allowed.
· Controlling live subjects by
chilling, anaesthetic or any other method of restricting natural movement for
the purpose of a photograph is not allowed.
Attention is drawn to
the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections and to the Editing Guidelines for Nature and Photo Travel
Photo Travel
A
Photo Travel image is a portrayal of the real world we live in, as it is found naturally. There are
no geographic limitations.
Content guidance:
1. If the image is predominantly or
exclusively a land-, sea- or cityscape, these “scapes” must include
characteristic, distinctive and recognizable
physical features, although it is not necessary that the image identify the
exact location;
2. Images that predominantly or
exclusively depict people and their activities must illustrate a distinctive
culture of a country, region, or continent;
3. Images that predominately or
exclusively depict animal populations are allowed, if the animals are in their
native environment and are characteristic of that country, region, or
continent;
4.Portraits or other close-ups of people
or objects, in addition to meeting the above paragraphs as applicable, must
include elements depicting some of the surrounding environment to make it
obvious that the image was not taken in a studio setting;
5. Images from events or activities
arranged for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are
NOT allowed.
6. Time exposures are allowed, if they do
not dominate the image as a special effect (star trails, for example, are a
dominating effect).
7. Highly distorted images such as those
produced by fish eye lenses are NOT
allowed.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections and to the Editing Guidelines for Nature, and
Photo Travel
CD - General Rules
Breaches of Rules
Entrants
are strongly advised to look at the PSA Ethics Policy which can be found at https://psa-photo.org/page/ethical-practices.
If, at any
time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organizer
or the judges before, during, or after the judging of an exhibition that an
entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with
these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, exhibitions, on
behalf of the judges, are allowed to request unedited or raw files of the
submitted image
In order
to ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the
exhibition organizers may carry out reasonable measures to verify that:
a) the
images are the original work of the entrant and
b) the
images comply with the rules and definitions as set out in these Conditions of
Entry
These
steps include, but are not limited to, questioning any entrant, requiring the
submission of RAW files or other digital files representing the original
capture of the submitted image(s), confronting the entrant with evidence that
one or more submitted images fails to comply with the Conditions of Entry (also
known as Entry Rules), and offering the entrant a reasonable opportunity to
provide counter evidence to refute the exhibition organizer’s evidence by a set
deadline. Such entries that are not cleared or are still questionable after the
entrant has presented evidence may be considered in breach of these Conditions
of Entry, and declined. Such entries may be referred to PSA for further
investigation of possible ethics violations
PSA, on
receiving reports from exhibitions of possible breaches, retains the right to
investigate in any way all complaints/suspicions of breaches of entry
conditions, impose penalties if deemed necessary, void the acceptances of any
image found to violate the PSA rules, include the entrant’s name on the list of
sanctions provided to Exhibitions, and share such investigations with FIAP.
Entrants automatically agree to these terms by the act of entering the
Exhibition and agree to cooperate with any investigation.
If another
party is submitting images on the entrant’s behalf, the entrant will still be
held responsible for adhering to these Conditions of Entry (Entry Rules) and will be subject to penalties for any
violations to these Conditions of Entry and PSA’s Statement of Ethics that
may result.
NOTICE: When entrants fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry they
will see the following feature to affirm they have read these Conditions of
Entry
“I hereby confirm
that I have read, understood and agree to the Conditions
of Entry of this exhibition. I have read the PSA document to be found at
https://psa-photo.org/resource/resmgr/pdf/exhibitions_/exhibition-entrants-agreemen.pdf.
I am aware that PSA may apply penalties for breaches of these Conditions of
Entry”
Failure to agree will mean that the application will not proceed.
Licence
agreement:
By submitting an entry, the entrant
certifies legal Age, and own all rights to these images, including copyright or
parents or guardians gives permission on his/her behalf if he/she is not of
Legal Age.
The exhibition assumes no liability for
any misuse of copyright.
