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ENTRY RULES – DIGITAL IMAGES
2008 RIDGEWOOD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
COLOR PROJECTED IMAGE DIVISION
THREE SECTIONS
CLOSING DATE:
Digital images – January 23, 2008
JUDGING DATE:
February 1 & 2, 2008
REPORT CARDS:
February 7, 2009- (emailed)
CATALOG:
March 22, 2008
CHAIRMAN:
Ara M. Chakarian, FPSA, NJFC
42 Bisset Drive
West Milford, NJ 07480, U. S. A.
E-Mail – Chick440@optonline.net
PSA RECOGNITION:
The sponsors of this International Exhibition of Photography have been awarded Recognition by PSA, the world’s largest patron of international photographic exhibitions.
Acceptances received by PSA members in approved sections of this exhibition are eligible for PSA Star Ratings, listing in the worldwide PSA Who’s Who of photography, and credited toward the PSA Distinctions PPSA and EPSA.
PSA is a non profit organization promoting the advancement of photography in all its forms to novice, amateur and professional photographers worldwide.
For information on membership and the many services and activities of PSA, contact:
Photographic Society of America
3000 United Founders Blvd. Suite 103
Oklahoma City, OK 73112-3940 U.S.A.
E-mail: hq@psa-photo.org
Web Site: http://www.psa-photo.org
JUDGES:
Evelyn Greaves, FPSA, Collinsville, IL
Skip LaRue, St. Louis, MO
Michael Roman, MNEC, Northboro, MA
THE RIDGEWOOD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
1. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
The RCC International Salon is open to all photographers around the world. However, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.
Submission of entries implies the acceptance of all conditions. The entrant must be the owner of all rights of the submitted works. Entry is not limited to images created and or modified digitally. Images may also be acquired and/or modified traditionally and then scanned. The images must be submitted as Electronic files only.
By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce any part of the entered material free of charge for publication on a CD-ROM catalog, on an Internet Website and/or display in media related to the exhibition such as a published catalog. The Exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright by the entrant.
2. COMPETITION DIVISION:
Recognition received for Both CPID and Nature Divisions
3. SECTIONS:
There will be three Sections:
DUAL PROJECTION COLOR OPEN
NATURE OPEN
NATURE WILDLIFE
Acceptances in all sections will count towards Who’s Who and star ratings.
The digital entries in Color Open, Nature Open and Nature Wildlife Sections will be judged separately. They will not be commingled with film entries. All entries in the two Nature sections may only be submitted in digital form. Images in the Color Open section may be submitted in slide or digital form but cannot be split across the two media.
4. ENTRY FORM and IMAGE FILE SUBMISSIONS: (For digital entrants only)
The Entry form and image files must be submitted electronically. Use the navigation bar on the left side to point to International Exhibition and navigate to the Digtial Entry From
The Entry Form is divided into two parts. The first part is for entering your personal information and is self-explanatory. The second part is for specifying your image files. The entry process has been streamlined to make it easier for you and you can ignore the prior PSA file naming conventions. All you need to do for each image you desire to submit is to place the Title that you want associated with the image in the Title field and then use the Browse button to select the image that you want to submit. The image can have any file name that you use for your inventory of images and need not conform to any naming convention. It can be as arcane as _IMG_4358.JPG.
Your images need be in JPG format and should use the color profile sRGB.
The dimensions of the image are limited to 768 pixels in both directions, horizontal and vertical. This is not a capricious specification and is done to make horizontal and vertical images the same projected size. Digital cameras record in either a 2x3 or 3x4 aspect ratio. Thus in the 2x3 aspect ratio both horizontal and vertical images will be the same size either 768x512 or 512x786 pixels and 4x3 aspect ratio images will be either 768x576 or 576x768 pixels. This emulates the characteristics of a film slide whose dimensions are equal independent of whether they are horizontal or vertical images. IF YOU HAVE IMAGES SIZED TO 1024 X 768 PIXELS AND DO NOT WANT TO RESIZE THEM ENTER THEM IN THE 1024 X 768 SIZE AND WE WILL RESIZE THEM FOR YOU.
You need not be overly concerned about file size as we will accept any file that is smaller than 1.7 MB and the aggregate of all files is limited to 20 MB. Generate your files with the highest quality of JPG compression as long as they conform to the maximums just given.
The status of the entry fee and the files received will be listed. The list will be updated, at least, weekly. Please check the status of your entries on the Web Site within the week after sending so problems can be resolved if necessary and to check on receipt of payment. The status can be found by going to the navigation bar on the left side to point to International Exhibition and navigate to the Digital Entry Status page.
5. JUDGING:
Judging will be done by projecting images on a screen with an Electronic Projector at a resolution of 1024 X 768 set to 16.7 million colors. In each section the entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging.
Three judges will be used with a score from each judge ranging from 1 to 5. The sum of the three scores will be used to determine acceptance. Each Image will have a Minimum score 3, or a Maximum score of 15.
6. ENTRY FEE
You may pay in cash, check, money order or by PayPal
Send your Entry Fee in cash, check or money order payable to Ridgewood Camera Club, to:
Marie Kane, APSA, NJFC
36 Abbington Terrace
Glen Rock, NJ 07452, U. S. A.
All funds must be in U.S. dollars and all checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank
To pay via PayPal - Send Payment to ridgewoodcameraclub@gmail.com
Fees: North America - One section $8.00, two sections $14.00, three sections $18.00
All others - One section $9.00, two sections $14.00, three sections $18.00
To send your fee in US Dollars via PayPal, using either an immediate debit from your bank account, an eCheck drawn on your bank account or your credit card, there are two paths one if you already have a Pay Pal account and one if you don’t. The transaction will be at no charge to you.
If you have a PayPal account you know how to use it so just send the fee to ridgewoodcameraclub@gmail.com and include the following in the Email Subject line "RCC Fee from first and last name and the last four digits of your phone number" such as "RCC fee from Vincent Kempf 3634". The Currency must be in US Dollars.
If you do not have a PayPal account you can open a Personal one free of charge by going to http://www.PayPal.com. Open a Personal Account. Once your account is open send the fee to ridgewoodcameraclub@gmail.com and include the following in the Email Subject line "RCC Fee from first and last name and the last four digits of your phone number" such as "RCC fee from Vincent Kempf 3634". The Currency must be in US Dollars.
Entries received without fee will not be judged and will not be sent any results. Fee must be received by closing date.
7. MEDALS
The following medals will be awarded in the Nature Open and Nature Wildlife sections,
Nature Open - One PSA gold medal and one Nature Division gold medal
Nature Wildlife - One PSA gold medal and one Nature Division gold medal
The medals for digital entries in the Color Open section will be shared with the film entries and these medals are shown on the General Rules page.
8. ACCEPTANCE RESULTS:
A listing of acceptances and awards of the digital entries, will be posted on the Internet on three Digital Medals & Acceptances pages found by using the navigation bar on the left side to point to International Exhibition and navigate to the approprieat page. This will be for a period of three months. A published catalog will be sent to each participant by March 22, 2008. E-mail report cards will be sent to all participants by February 7, 2008
9. Exhibition Showings:
There will be "Dual Projection" at all showings.
New York Botanical/Zoological Camera Club February 16, 2008
Tri-County Camera Club February 19, 2008
Ridgewood Camera Club February 20, 2008
Teaneck Camera Club February 26, 2008
Essex Camera Club February 28, 2008
Morris Photocolor Camera Club March 5, 2008
The exhibition showings will use a 1024 x 768 resolution Electronic Projector for the digital entries.
For a printed copy of these rules click on print.