CB - Details of Exhibition requirements
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
IMAGE 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
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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 is 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.
ENTRY FORM
Authors
must fill out online entry form.
NOTICE:
When an entrant fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry the entrant will see
a feature to affirm he or she has read these Conditions of Entry when he or she
fills out the entry form. If the entrant does not so affirm the entry
will not be submitted.
EMAILS SPAM BLOCKING:
Confirmations
of entry submittals and 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.
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.
Definition of
Woman Colour in PID-C
The closest definition of Woman
section, photography where the only condition is that the subject is female.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections
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
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.
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
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.
