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This exhibition has six sections:
- Color Open (PSA_PIDC)
- Monochrome Open (PSA-PIDM)
- Nature (colour or mono) (PSA-ND)
- Wildlife (colour or mono) (PSA-ND)
- Theme – Cell Phone Photography (colour or mono) (PSA-PIDC)
- Theme – Portrait (colour or mono) (PSA-PIDC)
Definitions
MONOCHROME (PSA)
An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of gray which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a grayscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.)
A grayscale 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.
NATURE (PSA)
PSA Addition to joint PSA/FIAP rules: There is one hard and fast rule, whose spirit must be observed at all times. The welfare of the subject is more important than the 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 Nature competitions. Judges are warned not to reward them.
Note: The PSA policy on aerial photography does not permit animals or birds in their natural habitat to be photographed from a drone.
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation.
- The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality.
- Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves.
- Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
- No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted.
- Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning.
- Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed.
- Stitched images are not permitted.
- All allowed adjustments must appear natural.
- Color images can be converted to grey-scale monochrome.
- Infrared images, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed.
To be eligible for the WILDLIFE awards, images must meet the Nature Photography Definition above and include one or more zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections. Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species.
COLOUR
Any image that is not monochrome. There are no restrictions on the subject matter.
CELL PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY
Images entered in this section must have been captured using a cell phone (mobile phone).
- The entrant must be able to provide an original file with EXIF data intact if called upon to verify the mobile capture.
- The use of filters and editing using phone apps is allowable, however the phone app should not introduce any elements that did not exist in the original photograph.
- Photographs downloaded from a phone and edited on a computer are permitted.
PORTRAIT
Images entered in this section must be portraits of a person or a group of no more than three people.
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