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NOTE: We will not extend the closing date - please upload your photos on time
10th Circular Exhibition of Photography Montenegro Circuit 2022
4 Judgings - 3 Divisions - 4 Sections Exhibition Fully PSA 2022-471 recognized
ORGANISER Photo club Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Photo club Cattaro, Kotor, Montenegro
Cultural center Niksic, Niksic, Montenegro Cultural center Kolasin, Kolasin, Montenegro
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Aleksandar Bogojevic, Chairman of the organizing committee
Belvederska
91, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Email of the chairman code@t-com.me
Email of the Exhibition office@photoclubmontenegro.com,
http://photoclubmontenegro.com
SECTIONS - There are 4 sections, all digital: A) OPEN COLOUR (colour only) PSA PID Colour
B) OPEN MONOCHROME (monochrome only) PSA PID Monochrome C) NATURE (colour/grayscale monochrome digital) PSA ND D) PHOTO TRAVEL (colour/grayscale monochrome digital) PSA PTD - Each photo can be presented in only one section.
ENTRY FEE 25 Eur. for any 1 or 2 sections 35 Eur. for any 3 or all 4 sections
Possible ways of payment: - PayPal transfer (to office@photoclubmontenegro.com) - The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration. GROUP/CLUB ENTRIES • The group must consist of at least 5 entrants. • Each person must enter separately • A discount of will be given to all group/club entries: 5-9 Entrants: 10% 10 -19 Entrant: 15% 20-50 Entrants: 20%
CALENDAR Closing date: 10.09.2022. Judging: 21.09. - 01.10.2022.
Report cards: 10.10.2022. Gallery of all accepted images will be available on the website www.photoclubmontenegro.com
after 10.10.2022. On-line PDF Exhibition Catalogue: 10.12.2022. www.photoclubmontenegro.com Sending of awards: 10.12.2022.
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.
JURY MEMBERS for all 4 sections:
Podgorica all sections: Cihan KARACA, EFIAP/d3, GPU CR4, GPU VIP5, Hon.FtGM, cMoL,
Hon.M.GCPC, Turkey
Peter TEUSCHEL, MPSA, LRPS, GPU VIP2. Germany
Sara GABRIELS, EFIAP/b, GMPSA, Belgium Yi WAN, GMPSA/P, SPSA, China
Hengki LEE, PPSA, AFIAP, HMOL, Indonesia
Min LI, MPSA/FAPAS/FPVS/FAPU/ARPS, China Borislav MILOVANOVIC, EFIAP/d1, ESFIAP, EPSA, GPU CR3 and F1FSS,
Serbia
Pekka SALMINEN, EFIAP/b, NSMIF/p, MNFFF/b, Finland
Marc POREE, France Cristina GARZONE, AFI-EFIAF-MFIAP-EFIAP/d2 GPU CR3- VIP3, Italy
Ahmad SAMEI, AFIAP, Iran
Milan VUKICEVIC, EFIAP, Serbia
AWARDSALTOGETHER 148 AWARDS!!!
Podgorica DPA Badge for the best Author
PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether) SALON Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether) +5 SALON honourable mention in each section (20 altogether)
Kotor DPA Badge for the best Author
PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether) SALON Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether) +5 SALON honourable mention in each section (20 altogether)
Niksic DPA Badge for the best Author
PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether) SALON Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether) +5 SALON honourable mention in each section (20 altogether)
Kolasin DPA Badge for the best Author
PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether) SALON Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether) +5 SALON honourable mention in each section (20 altogether)
- Each author can receive only one award in each section.
CATALOGUE On-line PDF Exhibition Catalogue.
REPORT CARD NOTIFICATION All participants will receive report card notifications via e-mail. The results of the exhibition will also be published on the website www.digitalphotoarchivelimited.com
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.
Sanctions:
Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is currently
sanctioned by PSA. 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 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. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be
reproduced or used “will not be eligible for awards” or inclusion in
audio-visuals of the exhibition “and could be subject to
disqualification” by the exhibition sponsors. 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 maker; 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
author
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 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. 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 maker. 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.
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.
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.
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. Oversized images will be rejected
and the entrant required to resubmit their entry with properly sized
images. Following the instructions on www.digitalphotoarchivelimited.com
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 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. All
information, including image file names, provided to the judges for
remote judging will 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 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 and
accept that entering this exhibition means that the status and results
of your entry may be made public.
STATUS LIST Our status page will be updated periodically. If any issues are noted, please contact Chairman
to resolve.
DEFINITIONS
SUBJECT MATTER AND SECTION 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 FIAP patronage or 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 FIAP patronage
or 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. Entry
in this exhibition is conditional on accepting these policies. The
content of images must comply with these 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 FIAP
patronage/PSA recognition. Further details on the PSA's drone policy may be found at
https://psa-photo.org/index.php?psa-policies#drone
PSA Monochrome Definition for PID An
image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of
having no Colour
(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 Colour across the entire
image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A greyscale or
multi-Coloured image modified
or giving the impression of having been
modified by partial toning, multi-toning or by the
inclusion of spot
Colouring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be
classified
as a Colour Work. Greyscale
Monochrome images may be entered for Nature and Photojournalism but
toned images are not permitted for these divisions.
PSA/FIAP Nature Definition
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.
Adding a vignette or blurring the background during processing is not
allowed.
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.
No modification that changes the truth
of a Nature image is allowed. Images may be cropped
but no other
technique that removes, adds or moves any part of the image is allowed.
Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise and lens flare are allowed.
Complete
conversion of colour images to greyscale monochrome is allowed. Partial
conversion, toning and infrared captures or conversions are not
allowed.
Images of the same subject that are
combined in-camera or with software by focus stacking or exposure
blending are allowed. Multiple images with overlapping fields of view
that are taken consecutively and combined in-camera or with software
(image stitching) are allowed.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections
Borders For
the purpose of this exhibition any border added to a Nature digital
file must be a single
border of white or grey, no greater than 3 -5
pixels in width.
PSA Photo Travel Definition
A
Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a
land as they are
found naturally. There are no geographical
limitations. Images from events or activities
arranged specifically for
photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not
permitted. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features
that provide information about the location.
Techniques
that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original
image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable
adjustments are removal of dust or digital
noise, restoration of the
appearance of the original scene, and complete conversion to
greyscale
monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared, are not permitted.
All images
must look natural.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections
Vignettes and Borders
For
the purpose of this exhibition vignettes are not allowed in Photo
Travel Digital images.
Any border added must be a single border of
white or grey, no greater than 3 -5 pixels in width.
Breaches of Rules 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, the exhibition organizers reserve the right to
delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or
awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees
may be forfeited or
refunded in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the
decision of the exhibition organizers or the judges is final 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
retains the right to investigate in any way all complaints/suspicions
of breaches of entry conditions, impose sanctions 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
sanction for any violations to
these Conditions of Entry and PSA’s Statement of Ethics that
may result.
If another party is processing images for an entrant or submitting
images on the entrant’s behalf, the entrant will still be held
responsible for adhering to all Conditions of Entry including the
specific conditions in the relevant definitions
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.
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.
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