Rules & Regulations of Iris 7^th All India Digital Salon 2024

• Any amateur or professional photographer residing in India can participate in this Digital Salon on payment of the appropriate Entry Fees. Entries without Entry Fee will not be judged.
• An Image Previously accepted in any salon hosted by Iris Photography Foundation is not eligible for entry in this salon.
• Members of Iris, present and past, and their family members are not allowed to participate in the Salon.
• Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.
• Each participant may submit a maximum of 4 (four) photographs per section. Maximum 16 (Sixteen) nos. as a whole.
• The Organizers will take utmost care of the submitted works but decline any responsibility in case of deterioration/damage during upload or otherwise.
• All acceptances will count for FIP Star Rating and “Who's Who”.
• Submission of entries automatically imply acceptance of the Rules and Regulations.
• Participants must own copyright of the submitted images. Also, participants are assumed to have the required permissions regarding Model Release or Property Release, if applicable. Iris accepts no liability, whatsoever, in this regard.
• Salon PDF Catalogue will be published on our website www.irisphotofoundation.com
• Reproduction rights in Catalogue or for Press Publicity without any payment to the author is assumed.
• Results will be published on our website www.irisphotofoundation.com
• The dimension must be of 1920 pixels wide (maximum) for horizontal images and 1080 pixels high (maximum) for vertical images including any borders. The files must be in JPEG format at 300 dpi. The file size should be within 2 mb.
• Please keep the file name exactly the title of the image without any special character. File name will be considered as the image title, please do not use any special character
• Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture filenames or titles consisting of only numbers.
• No watermark (image with any marking/sign/name as watermark or superscripting on an image will not be considered for judging)
• Please submit your images online as required in the online entry form provided on our website www.irisphotofoundation.com . Entry is allowed by online submission only.
• Decision of the judges will be final, no appeal will be entertained.

 

Definitions

MONOCHROME (PID M)
An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no colour (i.e. contains only shades of grey which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a greyscale image that has been toned in one colour across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.)

COLOUR (PID C)
The subject matter is unrestricted for PID images in separate colour and monochrome section. There may be a theme specified for some PID Salons and the exhibition's definition of the theme should be consulted with the organizer.
Use of major computer generated graphics is totally restricted except in Creative thematic section.
All elements of the image must have been shot by the author. No part of the image should have been taken from Net or other person's image. Use of some filters available on net is permissible.
Same images either colour or mono in two different section of the same Salon will result in disqualification for both the images.

WORLD IN FOCUS (WIF)
Just as with travel and tourism pictures, this section encompasses the full range of photographic genres from architecture, culture, events, food, landscape, portraits, etc. A “WORLD IN FOCUS” image expresses the spirit of an era, the essence of a place or of a culture whether it is shown in an authentic scene or whether it is arranged. Digital manipulation to optimize an image in terms of fine tuning of levels and colours is allowed as long as the image looks natural. The same applies for removal of dust or digital noise. Techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted.

PORTRAITS ( T1 )
This section includes candid, formal, creative, experimental portraits etc. Both artificial and natural light can be used. Both monochrome and colour photographs are allowed.