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FRIENDLY Weekly Photo Theme Competition..
This Friendly Photo Challenge is not about WINNING or LOSING. It's about
our Passion, Vision and Hard Work and thriving on a Challenge. It's about
your dedication in Photography and embracing the Hardship and hurdles that
you'll experience.. WIN or LOSE.
While this challenge or contest does not promise material and tangible
remunerations, efforts will certainly not go to waste because members will
gain new insights, learn something new each week aside from meeting and
creating new friends --- THIS IS PRICELESS!
WELCOME to the Arena and we hope for your Full and Active participation in
this Friendly activity with the Objective of promoting interactions, Friendship
and Camaraderie.. CHEERS! :)
SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES
1. The Weekly Photo Contest is open to all members of MEGA PIXEL
International. Admins and special judges (either external or invited judges)
are not ALLOWED to join the photo competition.
2. Participating members can only submit ONE (1) entry. The photo must be
absolutely owned and the shot must be taken by the member himself. MPI
may occasionally require the ORIGINAL copy of the photo with the EXIF data
intact in case of doubt of ownership and/or protest raised against the
submitted entry.
4. Photos that have been posted in the MPI Wall and Losing Entries in the
previous Competitions may be resubmitted as entries.
5. Photos that have been FINALISTS and/or Have Won in the MPI Weekly
Theme Photo Competition are no longer qualified as an entry.
6. If a Member submits more than one (1) entry, he must choose which to
retain and IMMEDIATELY remove or DELETE the others. If the member/s
fail/s to do this, Admins will DELETE the last ENTRIES entered and will
retain his/her first entry as his/her OFFICIAL ENTRY.
JUDGING
10. All entries will be scored by a distinguished Panel of Five (5) Judges
(Photographer Admins and/or Guest Judges) on a 10-point scale rating system
based on the following criteria:
CRITERIA:
Relevance to the Theme (35%) - How the photo is connected to the theme
Composition (35%) - How you combined elements to make your photo entry
a singular work of art.
RESTRICTIONS:
Post Processing is allowed to adjust and enhance the overall appearance of the
image, but OVERDOING it will have NEGATIVE Impact on the Scores
Solarizattion, Dual Tone, Mezzo Tint, etc - These will have negative impact in
the scores. There are a myriad of alteration "filters" available in digital photo
software but using it is highly discouraged.
Do not alter the Photograph. If you have digitally added or removed anything
the entry will be disqualified. The faithful representation of what you saw at
the time of the shot must be maintained.
Stitched panoramas are NOT considered as single Shot Photo. Panorama sizes
(2:1 ratio or higher) are not advisable to be used in the contest, scoring will be
significantly affected
11. Judges will do the scoring individually and independently using the
scoresheet provided and then submitted to the Tabulator/s within the
deadline. Judges' scoresheets are treated confidential and are not shown to
any of the co-Judges and other Admins. Comparing of notes and scores are not
Allowed All judges' scores will be tabulated and averaged.
The top TWENTY FIVE+ (25+) Semi finalist photos with the highest Judges
Average Scores (JAS rating) based on the Tabulated Scoresheets will be
presented at the Admins' Page via POLL Voting to select the 20 Finalists. The
Finalist result willl be arranged in a collage and will be announced and
presented at RUPI every Friday at 8:00pm Jakarta time.
(In case of multiple ties of scores in the last position/s of the Top 20, the
deadlock will be resolved and decided via Admin/Judges' POLL voting to
determine which photo/s will fill up the last slot/slots of 20 Finalists.)
12. For the FINAL Results, Admins' Votes Rating (AVR) votes will be
converted into a WEIGHTED SCORE depending on the Ttoal Votes Cast and
will be combined with the Judges' Average Score (JAS) on a 20-80 split in
which 20% will come from the Admins’ votes/polling and 80% from the
Honorable Judges' Average Ratings.
The Admins Choice (ACA) and The Judges' Choice (JCA) will be done every
Saturday in the Admin Page and will be based on the 20 Finalists. The
selection of ACA and JCA is done in secrecy where the Admins and Judges will
cast their votes via PM ONLY to the tabulator).
For the ACA - Admins who are NON-JUDGE will select their Top 3 Finalists
independently and cast their Votes SECRETLY via PM to the Tabulator. The
TOP Choice will be declared the ACA winner. Ties at the top are considered
winner.
For the JCA - The 5 Honorable Judges will cast their votes secretly and send to
the tabulator. Judges will independently select their TOP 3 Finalists as their
"Judges' Choice". The Top Choice after tabulation will be declared JCA winner.
Ties at the Top are considered winner.
WINNERS:
Gold Winner - 1
Silver Winners - 2
Bronze Winners - 3
Winning photos will be placed in a Special Album that will be created solely
for Weekly Photo Contest winners.
GRAND SLAM (GS) - for entry winning the 3 Top Awards of the week (i.e
GOLD Medal, Judges' Choice Award and the Admins' Choice Award)
16. The Gold Winner's photo will be used as the Official Banner or Cover Photo
of the Group site for the whole week, until such time a new Gold Winner for
the succeeding week has been announced.
Friday 8:00 pm --- Announce and post the collage of 20 Finalists on the WALL
Saturday - Admins votes for the Admins Choice Award (ACA) in a special Poll
voting in the Admin page and Judges' Secret Voting to select the Judges'
Choice Award (JCA).
Sunday 10:00 pm-- Opening of the new Entry Album for next Theme contest.