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How
to post
To post a picture in this year's monthly contest: |
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There
is no entry fee for the Best of Nikonians
Images Photo Contests,
however, you must be a registered Silver,
Gold or Platinum Member to be able to
submit an image. |
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You
can post only one image per member per
category, within the submission period established for
uploading, as shown in section 6.2 below. You may participate
in all
categories open for the 2011 contest if you choose
to do so. |
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The
exception to the above rule in section 1.2 is category
I. Online Assignments and Challenges, where members may
submit their winning image for each and
all forums Online Assignments and Challenges in which
they won during the year, before the submission
deadline; and ONE image per member, per category,
in
each and all
of
the
other
three categories before the end of the submission deadline
in section 6.2 below. This opportunity for multiple
submissions
is open to all Silver, Gold and Platinum Nikonians members. |
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Deadline
or last day to post an image is the last day of submission
period.
The posting time stamp that counts is midnight of that
last day, time of our main servers, Germany
time.
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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To
be able to upload your photos, if you are logged in
at the community, following the Galleries link in the
upper banner on all community pages will automatically
log
you into
the images galleries server.
If you are not logged in, you must first login
into our Galleries server with your Nikonians username
and password, then follow the upload
link, choosing the appropriate category.
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Eligibility |
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The contest is open to Nikonians photographers, beginners,
amateur, semi-pro or professional, except those mentioned
in 2.9 below. |
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2.2 |
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You
must have read, understood and accepted our Terms
of Use before you register. |
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There
is no entry fee for the Best of Nikonians Photo Contests,
however you must be a registered Silver,
Gold or Platinum Member of the
Nikonians community. |
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The
photographer retains the copyrights, however, by posting
automatically gives Nikonians
rights for publishing the image at the Nikonians community
websites, whether at the forums and/or in any publications
linked to Nikonians,
for example in The Nikonian eZine, banners
here or elsewhere
or a post in the homepage, without compensation. Should
the possibility arises to use the image in a possible
future for-profit venture, Nikonians will first approach
the photographer,
owner
of the copyrights to negotiate terms and conditions. |
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Photos
must have been made 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 mount 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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Images
that have won any other photo contest will be rejected. |
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2.11 |
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Photos
submitted may have been taken at any time - they do
not need to be made
during the year of this contest, that is, in 2011.
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| 3. |
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Entries |
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Images
shall be digitized images in a JPEG (.jpg) file format,
in sRGB color space. |
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3.2 |
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We
will only accept for judging images of
at least 1,200
pixels at their longest side |
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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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5.2 |
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Photographs
will be received only as direct digitized image file uploads
into the contest galleries. |
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5.3 |
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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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To
fulfill the purpose of the community, share,
learn, inspire,
the author must include in the comments section
a description of how they came about
to
make the
picture,
what
it's for, noteworthy solved technical aspects, and any
problems for which they may still be looking for
solutions.
This requirement is now compulsory from 2011. |
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It
would be nice to have shutter speed, aperture, ISO,
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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Members posting images for the Contest in the Challenges category must insert in the comment what challenge or assignment the image won, and provide the URL to the announcement post of such win.
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Categories |
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6.1 |
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Entrants
categorize their photos by posting. This year
there
will be 4 categories, as explained below. |
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6.2 |
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Current
theme categories are as follows: |
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Submissions
Period
July 22nd to November 15, 2011
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Categories
description
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I.
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Challenges |
Winning images
of the forums Online Assignments
and Challenges
From January
1st to November 15, 2011
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II.
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Nature |
Open
to any subject found in nature
Animals,
Landscapes, Seascapes, Skyscapes
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III.
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Black
& White |
Open
to any subject except Nudes
Images made in B&W
film or digitally converted to grayscale
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IV.
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HDR |
Open
to any subject except Nudes
Images must include HDR post processing
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Images
can be color or Black & White (including sepia,
duo tone and similar essentially monochrome treatments) or
as specifically required by the category description.
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Awards |
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7.1
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Per
Category |
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First
Place and two Honorable Mention winners per category
will be selected among the entries
for each and all categories and the winning pictures
will be published at the
Nikonians Galleries web site
in the Photo Contest Winners Gallery. All winners
images will also be
displayed prominently elsewhere and in the Nikonians
Contest forum.
Winners are expected to share there comments
to such posts
with the community.
The top-rated 10 images from each category will automatically
become finalists, eligible
for the
Finals' Contest with
their
category entry. |
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7.2 |
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Category
Wins Acknowledgements |
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Category
winners will be announced and prizes awarded in the
second half of November, 2011. Category winners who fail
to acknowledge and reply to their win announcement
email within 3 weeks will not receive their category
Contest prize(s) and loose their eligibility
for the
Finals' Contest. All participants are therefore
strongly encouraged to keep their email address current
via the My
User Menu facility and visit regularly the Nikonians
Contest forum. |
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Finals
of the Contest |
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All
photographers whose photos are selected to be in the
10 top-rated of each category, automatically participate
in the Nikonians
Best - 2011 Images Photo Contest with their
entry. The finals' winners, a Grand
Prize Winner and 2 (two)
Honorable Mentions,
will be announced no later than December 16, 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, and a one-year Nikonians
Gold Membership. |
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Winning
images |
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Winners
by category and overall finals winners must send our
Chief Editor, Tom Bone, an 1800 by 1200
pixels image version. Email reminders of this requirement
will
be sent to the winners
when the time comes. These images should be received
before sending the winners their prizes and awards. |
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7.5 |
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Finals
Wins Acknowledgements
The finals' winners who fail to acknowledge and reply to
their win announcement email within three weeks will not
receive their prizes. All
participants are therefore strongly encouraged to keep their
email address current via the My
User Menu facility and regularly visit the Nikonians
Contest forum. |
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7.6 |
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Contest
maximum number of prizes per photographer |
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Nikonians has decided to grant 1st Place and two Honorable
Mentions in each category and in the finals; however,
no photographer
will be eligible for more than two finals place prizes. |
