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How
to post
To post a picture in this year's monthly contest: |
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You
must be a registered Silver,
Gold or Platinum Member to be able to post. |
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You
can post only one image per month, within
the submission period established for uploading,
as shown in section 6.2 below. You may participate
in all
months open for the 2010 contest if you choose to do so. |
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Deadline
or last day to post an image is the last day of that month
The posting time stamp that counts is midnight of the last
day of the month, time of our image servers time in Germany.
Missing the deadline means that the posted image will not
be considered by the judges for that month's contest. |
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Your
picture(s) must be in accordance with our Terms
of Use. Any pictures not complying with our Terms
of Use will not be considered for the contest and may
be deleted. No nude images are accepted in the contest.
For Contest purposes only images made with Nikon or Nikon-mount
hybrid bodies are accepted. |
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1.5 |
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To
be able to upload your photos, you must first login
into our Galleries server with your Nikonians member username
and password, then follow the upload
link, choosing the appropriate month.
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Eligibility |
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The contest is open to Nikonian photographers, beginners,
amateur, semi-pro or professional, except those mentioned
in 2.9 below. |
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You
must have read, understood and accepted our Terms
of Use before you register. |
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2.3 |
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You
must be a registered Silver,
Gold or Platinum Member at the
Nikonians community. |
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The
photographer retains the copyrights, however, by posting,
automatically gives Nikonians
rights for publishing in any publications linked to Nikonians,
for example in our eZine The Nikonian, banners here or elsewhere
or a post in the Galleries Picture of the Week, whether
a winner or not, without compensation. |
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Photos
must have been taken with a Nikon® camera, whether
film or digital and it must be specified in the appropriate
field. |
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Photos
made with Nikon based hybrid digital cameras are also eligible;
i.e. with Kodak DCS and Fujifilm FinePix cameras with Nikon
lens mount. |
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2.7 |
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The
lens does not need to be a Nikkor lens. |
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2.8 |
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You
can digitally manipulate the picture any way you want, but
you should use the comment field in the online form to indicate
that the image has been manipulated. |
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2.9 |
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Members
of the Nikonians Team (i.e. Administrators, Moderators,
Finance, Marketing and other functions Team) are not eligible
for this contest. |
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Photos
may be taken at any time - they do not need to be taken
during the period of the contest.
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Entries |
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Images
shall be digitized images in a JPEG (.jpg) file format.
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We
will only accept for judging images not larger than 1024
pixels at their longest side and not smaller than 900 pixels. |
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We
at Nikonians,
may digitally manipulate the posted images in terms of size
and borders if selected for web or print publication; however,
no alteration will be made as to their brilliance, contrast,
gamma, hue and sharpness as received. |
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The
Nikonians Galleries
create thumbnails and a medium size image for easier viewing. |
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Prints
& Transparencies or slides |
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4.1 |
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Nikonians
will not accept prints or transparencies for the contest.
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4.2 |
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Only
digitized images entries submitted to the Nikonians
Galleries server will be eligible. |
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Procedure
Contestants must follow this procedure for consideration. |
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Nikonians
and its agents will not be responsible for file corruption
or loss of entries, whether in uploading transmission or
from our data base.
If you are entering into the contest an image already in
your gallery, we request you make a copy with a
different
image file name; that way if you later decide to eliminate
it from your own member gallery, it will not disappear
from
the contest entries. |
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Photographs
will be received only as direct digitized image file uploads
into the contest galleries. |
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You
must explicitly fill the following data for each photograph
to be able to participate, not relying on EXIF data being
attached to the image:
a) Camera
b) Lens
c) Location |
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It
would be nice to have shutter speed, aperture, film -if
applicable- filters used and any other complementary comments
such as date -even if approximate- but these are not compulsory
for admission to the contest.
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Categories |
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6.1 |
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Entrants
categorize their photos by posting; however, this year there
are no categories, but a single one: open. |
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6.2 |
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Current
theme categories are as follows: |
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Submission
Periods - Segments
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Photography
Themes - Categories
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I.
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February
1 to February 28 |
HDR
(High Dynamic Range)
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II.
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March
1 to March 31 |
Black & White
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III.
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April
1 to April 30 |
Birds
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IV.
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May
1 to May 31 |
Transportation
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V.
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June
1 to June 30 |
Sunrise/Sunset
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VI.
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July
1 to July 31 |
Babies
(Human or not)
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VII.
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August
1 to August 31 |
Digital
Art (Manipulators go wild)
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VIII.
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September
1 to September 30 |
Macro/Micro
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IX.
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October
1 to October 31 |
Landscape
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X.
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November
1 to November 30 |
Wildlife
(Other than birds)
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XI.
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December
1 to December 31 |
Holidays
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Images
can be color or Black & White (including sepia, duo
tone and similar essentially monochrome treatments)
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Awards |
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7.1
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Monthly
Contests |
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First
place winners by month will be selected among the entries
for that month and the pictures will be published at the
Nikonians Galleries web site
in the Photo Contest Winners Gallery. There will
not be second and/or third place monthly winners in 2010.
The judges reserve for themselves the right to decide whether
a month contains work that merits awards; in the remote
case their verdict is negative, no awards nor prizes may
be awarded in that month. All winners images will also
be
displayed prominently in the homepage or posted in the
Contest forum. Winners are expected to share comments
to such posts
with the community.
Winners of a monthly photo contest automatically become
a finalist, eligible for the Annual Contest with their monthly
entry. |
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Monthly
Contests Wins Acknowledgements |
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Monthly
winners who fail to acknowledge and reply to their win announcement
email within 3 weeks will not receive their Monthly Contest
prize(s) and their finalist right, elegible for the Annual
Contest, will be lost. All participants are therefore strongly
encouraged to keep their email address current via the My
User Menu facility. |
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Annual
Contest |
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All
photographers whose photos win a monthly contest segment
in 2010,
automatically participate in the Annual
Nikonians Photo Contest with their entry.
The winner(s) will be announced no later than February
15,
2011 and will receive the Certificate
of Nikonians High Photographic Achievement,
a winners page will be built at this community site.
In addition, the
winner(s) will receive photography related prizes from
our contest sponsors. |
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Annual
Contest image submission requirements |
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Entries
for the Photo Contest finals, resubmission's of previous
winning images, need to be of 300 ppi resolution and 6 inches
at their longest side (i.e. 1800 pixels long). Reminders
of this requirement will be sent to the monthly winners
when the time comes. |
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7.5 |
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Annual
Contest maximum number of prizes per photographer |
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Nikonians has decided to grant 1st place and two others
in the finals; however, no photographer will be
eligible for more than one place prize(s). |
