Salon Competition Procedures & Rules

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL ENTRANTS – Please study and follow carefully.

Not doing so will prevent judging of your entry.

ELIGIBILITY: Any member of TAPPA in good standing.

ENTRIES: A total, not to exceed 6 images, may be entered by one photographer per salon judging. Images previously entered in TAPPA Salon Competitions may not be entered again. No two images shall be of the same subject.

ENTRY FEE: The entry fee of $5.00 covers one to six entries. If you are not attending the competition, the entry fee is $15. It may be cash or a check made payable to TAPPA. Please pay that evening. If you are not attending but placing entries, please let Michael Landes (LANDESM@pcsb.org) a couple of days before the event.

The deadline for all entries is posted on www.printcompetition.com

ENTRY DEADLINES: Entries must be uploaded onto the website. Go to the TAPPA website and then to:PrintCompetiton.com FILE NAMING: Will be done automatically. But of course you will need to title your entries

CLASSIFICATION OF ENTRIES: Entries must be designated by the entrant in one of the six (6) categories listed on the entry form. If the chairman feels the entry is placed in an incorrect category, he/she may change the entry’s category. Color and Black and White images will be judged together in all categories.

1. PORTRAIT: This category includes portraits of men, women, children, couples (2 people), groups (3 or more), and environmental portraits.

2. SOCIAL FUNCTION: This category includes social function portraits or candids.

3. COMMERCIAL: This category includes advertising illustration, industrial, architectural, product photography and photojournalism. Live models may be used for these entries.

4. UNCLASSIFIED: This category includes abstracts, pictorials (non-portrait), animals, figure studies and photojournalism.

Our featured speakers will be our salon judges as they present an image-by-image critique of the evening’s print entries.

5. ELECTRONIC IMAGING: This category includes digital restoration, image enhancement. Entries will be judged for digital, artistic and technical proficiency. Reference images are recommended.

6. ALBUMS: This Category includes wedding albums, story book and portrait albums. Albums can be from 1 or more makers.

Send ALBUM ENTRIES ONLY, 24 hours before salon, to: Michael Landes at LANDESM@pcsb.org

IMAGE PREPARATION: Always SAVE a copy of your competition print file before attempting this!

See tutorials at http://www.ppa.com/competitions/tutorials.php

Files must be sized so the longest dimension is 4,000 pixels (20 inches at 200 ppi). Each file must contain an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10. Total file size should not exceed 7 MB.

ALBUM FILE PREPARATION:

1. All page/spread files must have the longest file dimension at 4,000 pixels (20 inches at 200 ppi), have an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10.

2. Each page/spread file may contain as many images as you desire.

3. An entry may contain up to 36 page/spread files

4. Files are to be numbered in viewing order using two digits (i.e., 01 jpg, 02 jpg, 03 jpg, etc.).

5. All individual files must be compressed into a single ZIP file. ZIP file must be named: LastName_ Album_Title (use _for spaces, e.g. Sewell_ Summer_Wedding.zip) 6. Studio identification or entrant’s name cannot appear on any file within the album entry.

JUDGING PROCEDURES: Each salon will be judged by a panel of three qualified judges using FPP and PPA guidelines including point scoring procedures. The score of the three judges will be totaled and averaged for the final score. When a judge’s score varies 10 points or more from the average score, it becomes an automatic challenge and the photograph must be discussed and re-scored. A judge may initiate a challenge at any time. Scores of 78 and 79 are automatically challenged.

SCORING: Prints are scored from 0 to 100 as follows:

100-95 EXCEPTIONAL 79-76 GOOD 94-90 SUPERIOR 75-74 AVERAGE 89-85 EXCELLENT 73-70 FAIR 84-80 VERY GOOD 69-0 UNACCEPTABLE

AWARDS: Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category. Merit ribbons will be awarded to all prints scoring an 80 or above. A Best of Show ribbon will be awarded to the print judged best by the panel of judges. All entries receiving scores of 80-81 and 78-79 are automatically challenged. During the automatic challenge, judges may lower or raise the score of an image by a 2/3 majority of the panel.

Case fees:

$15 for attendees (pay at the door or through PrintCompetition.com) You must also join PrintCompetition.com which costs $8 Upload your case to: PrintCompetition.com Deadline for entry is: March 6 @ 11:59pm