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How
to post
To upload 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 upload. |
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You
need to be at least 21 years old. |
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Task
1. In the period of the submission, before uploading
your image to the contest gallery, you must have started
a thread in the Nikonians forums, creating a
new topic,
whether with
a question or a comment. |
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Task
2. In the period of the submission, before uploading
your image to the contest gallery, you must have replied
to
a post in the Nikonians forums. |
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Task
3. In the period of the submission, before uploading
your image to the contest gallery, you must have uploaded
an image
in the Nikonians forums, from your Nikonians Gallery. |
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You
can post only one image within
the submission period established for uploading,
as shown in section 6.2 below. You may participate
in all
three periods or segments open for the Nikonians 10th
Anniversary Photo Contest. |
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Deadline
or last day to post an image is the last day set for
that period.
The posting time stamp that counts is midnight of the last
day of the period, 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 period'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, you must first login
into our Galleries server with your Nikonians member username
and password, then follow the upload
link, choosing the appropriate segment or period.
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Eligibility |
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The contest is open to Nikonian photographers, beginners,
amateur, semi-pro or professional, except if under
21 years of age and/or those mentioned
in 2.10 below. |
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You
must have read, understood and accepted our Terms
of Use before you register. |
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You
must be a registered Silver,
Gold or Platinum Member at the
Nikonians community. |
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You
must have completed all three tasks listed in the above
section 1, at least once within the submission period. |
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The
photographer retains their images 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 Contests forum, 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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The
lens does not need to be a Nikkor lens. |
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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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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 have been taken at any time; i.e. they do not need
to be taken during the period of the contest. |
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Photos
submitted to the Best of Nikonians - 2010 Images Photo
Contest are not elegible for paticipation in this
Nikonians 10th Anniversary Photo 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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Nikonians
will only accept for judging images not larger than 1024
pixels at their longest side and not smaller than 900 pixels.
However, if an image is deleted for non compliance of
the above size requirement, it may be reuploaded in the
correct dimensions before the submission term ends. |
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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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Nikonians
will not accept prints or transparencies for the contest.
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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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Entrants
categorize their photos by posting; however, this year there
are no categories, but a single one: open. |
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Current
theme categories are as follows: |
Submission
Periods - Segments
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Photography
Themes - Categories
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February
1 to March 4, 2010 |
What
Nikonians means to Me (Photo representation)
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II.
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March
5 to April 30, 2010 |
Fellow
Nikonians at Work (Photo Representation)
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III.
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Mayl
1 to June 30, 2010 |
On
the Nikonians Road (Photo representation)
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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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Period
or Segment Contests |
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First
place winners and two Honorary Mentions by period
will be selected among the entries
for that period and the pictures will be published
at the
Nikonians Galleries web site
in the 10th Anniversary Photo Contest Winners Gallery.
There will not be second and/or third place segment
winners in this contest.
The judges reserve for themselves the right to decide whether
a segment contains work that merits awards; in the
remote
case their verdict is negative, no awards nor prizes may
be awarded in that period. All winners images will
also be
displayed prominently in the homepage or posted in the
Nikonians Contest s forum. Winners are expected to share
comments to such posts
with the community.
First Place winners of a period's photo contest
automatically become finalists, eligible for the Grand
Prize of this
Nikonians 10th Anniverary Photo Contest with their
entry. |
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Period
Contests Wins Acknowledgements |
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Period
winners who fail to acknowledge and reply to their win
announcement
email within 3 weeks will not receive their Period
Contest prize(s) and their finalist right, elegible
for the
Grand Prize, will be lost. All participants are therefore
strongly encouraged to keep their email address current
via the My
User Menu facility. In such event, the judges may
select among the Honorary Mentions awarded the winner
for that period. |
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Final
Contest |
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All
photographers whose photos win a period or segment
of this contest, automatically compete for the
Grand Prize and two Honorary
Mentions of the Nikonians
10th ANniversary Nikonians Photo Contest with
their entry. The winners will be announced no later
than May 15,
2010 and will receive the Nikonians
Certificate of High Photographic Achievement,
a winners page will be built at this community.
In addition, the
winner(s) will receive photography related prizes from
our contest sponsors. |
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Final
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)
to an email address that will be given out by email.
Reminders of this requirement will be sent to the periods
winners. |
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Final
Contest maximum number of prizes per photographer |
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Nikonians has decided to grant 1st place and two Honorary
Mentions in the finals; however, no photographer
will be
eligible for more than one place prize(s) in a given period. |