The contest rules
are designed to mimic the NPAC east clip contest in order to get student
photographers used to preparing their photos for contest submission.
ENTRIES
II. A photographer can enter a maximum of 3 submissions per category. One multiple picture story counts as one submission
III. Image manipulation or alteration other than industry-accepted ‘darkroom techniques’ (cropping, colour correction, tonal adjustments (levels, curves or burning/dodging) and sharpening) are not allowed.
IV. An entrant may not enter an image in two separate categories unless the image is part of a collection entered in the Multi-Picture category. Example, the submission of an image in the Multi-Picture category may also be eligible in Portrait/Personality category.
V. Judges will not reclassify entries. Entrants must edit and place their work in the appropriate category. The judging panel has the right to not designate awards. Entries will not be returned.
VI. All entries must include a caption. The caption may be the original published caption or a freshly produced caption that clearly explains in 40 words or less what the picture shows (who, what, where, when and maybe why). Entries with incomplete or missing information may be excluded.
VII. If a winning image is disqualified, all the subsequent images will move up a placement and receive the points associated with the new placements. Example, if a first place image is disqualified, the entrant will lose those points and the second place image will attain the first place ranking and points associated with it. The third place image will become the second place and the HM becomes the third place. If a subsequent placement has not been awarded, the position(s) will remain unawarded.
I. All entries must
have been captured between the beginning and end of the month they are to be
judged in. Example, images entered in the January contest must have
been captured in January. The only exceptions to this rule are images
from a long-term project and images entered in the Summer contest.
Multiple Picture Stories may have been photographed over several months and can
be entered in the Multi-Picture category.
II. A photographer can enter a maximum of 3 submissions per category. One multiple picture story counts as one submission
III. Image manipulation or alteration other than industry-accepted ‘darkroom techniques’ (cropping, colour correction, tonal adjustments (levels, curves or burning/dodging) and sharpening) are not allowed.
IV. An entrant may not enter an image in two separate categories unless the image is part of a collection entered in the Multi-Picture category. Example, the submission of an image in the Multi-Picture category may also be eligible in Portrait/Personality category.
V. Judges will not reclassify entries. Entrants must edit and place their work in the appropriate category. The judging panel has the right to not designate awards. Entries will not be returned.
VI. All entries must include a caption. The caption may be the original published caption or a freshly produced caption that clearly explains in 40 words or less what the picture shows (who, what, where, when and maybe why). Entries with incomplete or missing information may be excluded.
VII. If a winning image is disqualified, all the subsequent images will move up a placement and receive the points associated with the new placements. Example, if a first place image is disqualified, the entrant will lose those points and the second place image will attain the first place ranking and points associated with it. The third place image will become the second place and the HM becomes the third place. If a subsequent placement has not been awarded, the position(s) will remain unawarded.
VIII. Decisions of the contest Judges are final.
POINTS/AWARDS
Prizes are as yet
undetermined but will be handed out at the discretion of P.O.M. organizers and
are dependent upon availability. Prizes will be awarded based on a points
system. Points will be awarded to monthly winners as follows in each category:
1st place — 100
points
2nd place — 50
points
3rd place — 25
points
Honourable Mention — 10pts
Honourable Mention — 10pts
CATEGORIES
FEATURE (FEA) — A picture of
a “found” situation that has a high human-interest element and/or a fresh view
of an everyday scene.
NEWS (NEW) — Can be spot
news, a picture of an unscheduled news event for which no advance planning was
possible, or general news, a picture with serious content and strong human
interest of a scheduled or organized news event.
PORTRAIT/PERSONALITY
(PRT) — A picture of a person or persons that reveals the essence
of the subject’s character or the story behind the picture.
SPORTS (SPT) — Can be
sports action, a picture that captures the competitive peak action or spirit
during a sporting event, or sports feature, a sports-related picture other than
game action that has strong human element.
MULTI-PICTURE (MPX) — A series of
photographs that tell a story or are centered on a single theme. Subject matter
can be news, feature, portrait or sports-related. Single pictures that are part
of a Multi-Picture submission can be entered into another category, but must be
entered separately. If the Multi-Picture entry was shot over a period of more
than one calendar month/year, it must be entered in the month/year it is
completed/published. A long-term project may only be entered once.
PREPARING YOUR SINGLE PHOTO ENTRIES
Prepare your images
using the following file specifications:
A. Resolution: 200
DPI.
B. Image Size: 9
inches on the longest side.
C. File type: JPEG.
E. JPG compression:
8
Each picture must
have a caption entered into the description or caption field of the image’s
IPTC data. Please pay close attention to the following steps. You must follow a
specific naming style when saving the image. No two entries should have the
same file name.
Each picture must
have the following format:
(CATEGORY)(Month)(FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST INITIALS)(EntryNumber).jpg
Start all your
filenames using the category code:
NEW — News
FEA — Feature
SPT — Sports
PRT — Portrait
MPX — Multi-Picture
Use the following
abbreviation to indicate the month:
January – Jan
February – Feb
March – Mar
April – Apr
May – May
June – Jun
July – Jul
August – Aug
October – Oct
November – Nov
December – Dec
February – Feb
March – Mar
April – Apr
May – May
June – Jun
July – Jul
August – Aug
October – Oct
November – Nov
December – Dec
Follow with the photographer’s three initials from their first,
middle and last names.
Finally, number each
entry. Remember, you are allowed up to 15 entries (3 max in each category) per
month.
An example of a filename for a photo entered by John M. Doe in the
Feature Category in March would look like this:
FEAMarJMD1.jpg
PREPARING YOUR PICTURE STORY ENTRIES
Submitting a
mult-picture entry uses the same method as for single picture category entries
but with one change. The letter a, b, c, … is added to the filename indicating
the order in which the photos should be viewed.
For
example, let’s say John M. Doe has another entry for March, a multi-picture
story consisting of five photographs. The filenames for these five photos in
his multi-picture entry would be:
MPXMarJMD2a.jpg
MPXMarJMD2b.jpg
MPXMarJMD2c.jpg
MPXMarJMD2d.jpg
John Doe now has another multi-picture story consisting of three photos to enter for this month. He uses the following filenames for each of these photos:
MPXMarJMD2b.jpg
MPXMarJMD2c.jpg
MPXMarJMD2d.jpg
John Doe now has another multi-picture story consisting of three photos to enter for this month. He uses the following filenames for each of these photos:
MPXMarJMD3a.jpg
MPXMarJMD3b.jpg
MPXMarJMD3c.jpg
MPXMarJMD3b.jpg
MPXMarJMD3c.jpg
The
last entry John Doe has is a single Spot News photo from one of his
Multi-picture stories he is entering. He makes a second jpeg of this image
and gives it the following filename:
SNWMarJMD4.jpg
Remember, even though
the maximum number of entries for each month is 15, with 3 maximum for each
category, each Multi-Picture entry counts as one entry.
SUBMITTING ENTRIES
You may submit
photos electronically into the desktop folder on the P.O.M computer in the
Photojournalism lab (1N5C). Please make sure to place your submissions inside the drive THAWSPACE and into their corresponding folders inside.
If you are unable to submit your photo onto the P.O.M computer before the deadline, you may email to loyalistphoto.pom@gmail.com no later than the noted deadline. Photos received by email after the deadline will not be accepted. Please zip your entries into one zip file and name it "firstname_lastname.zip".
If you are unable to submit your photo onto the P.O.M computer before the deadline, you may email to loyalistphoto.pom@gmail.com no later than the noted deadline. Photos received by email after the deadline will not be accepted. Please zip your entries into one zip file and name it "firstname_lastname.zip".
Entries for the month are due on the 15th day of the following month. For example, entries for
the January contest (for pictures shot in January) must be submitted by February
15th.
CONTACT
Second Year
representatives: Andrew Ryan, Wyatt Brooks,
Email:
loyalistphoto.pom@gmail.com
www.lcpom.blogspot.ca
www.lcpom.blogspot.ca
Last updated: Oct 15, 2017
