PSA Divisions: PSA Projected Image Division (Open), PID color Nature Division (Open), ND

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1 PSA FIAP2016/084 FIAP2016/085 FIAP2016/086 RPS 2016/21 RPS 2016/22 RPS 2016/23 L M3G3S3B Fotosalon Hessen FIAP2016/084, RPS 2016/22 Fotosalon Niedersachsen FIAP2016/085, RPS 2016/23 Fotosalon Baden-Württemberg FIAP2016/086, RPS 2016/21 GPU Code: L M3G3S3B PSA Divisions: PSA Projected Image Division (Open), PID color Nature Division (Open), ND Powered by: Norbert Heil APSA, MPSA, EFIAP/b (Chairman) Johannesstrasse 5 D Filderstadt Germany info2016@germanphotocup.de

2 Judging Panel Niedersachsen, Chairman: Norbert Heil (APSA, MPSA, EFIAP/b, DVF) Dieter Böhm (EFIAP, DVF), Andrea Harmssen (EFIAP, DVF), Hazel Reister (EFIAP, DVF), Greg Duncan (EPSA, UK) Hessen, Chairman: Ute Krämer (EFIAP, DVF) Volker Frenzel (MFIAP, EFIAP/p, DVF), Irene Löffler (EFIAP/b, DVF), Udo Krämer (MFIAP, EFIAP, DVF), Manolis Metzakis (Greece) Baden-Württemberg, Chairman: Karin Heil (PSA) Gerhard Böhm (GMPSA, EFIAP), Achim Köpf (EFIAP/g, KDVF), Jochen Preuß (DVF), Valerie Duncan (EPSA, UK) Calendar Entry Closing mail or online 13th March 2016 Judgings: 19th-20th March 2016 Hessen 19th-20th March 2016 Niedersachsen 19th-20th March 2016 Baden-Württemberg Report cards with complete results 26th March 2016 Public presentation June/August 2016 Filderstadt Hessen and Niedersachsen tba Catalogue and Awards sending 31st May 2016 Prizes Total Circuit: 120 medals and 240 HMs 6 PSA Gold-, Silver and Bronzemedal 6 FIAP Gold-, Silver and Bronzemedal 3 RPS Gold-, Silver and Bronzemedal per salon (Nature) 3 RPS Goldmedals (Best Youth, Open) 3 GPU Gold-, Silver and Bronzemedal per salon (Open) 6 DVF Gold-, Silver and Bronzemedal 48 GIP Medal 36 FIAP Honorable Mentions 18 GPU Honorable Mentions 186 GIP Honorable Mentions Best Author per salon: FIAP-PIN Special prize for entrants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland One year free subscription of the paper d-pixx for best author per division Prizes for the best photographers in the total circuit: 1. Place 500 Euro, 2. Place 200 Euro, 3. Place 100 Euro and further medals and Honorable Mentions Youth (under 21 Years): Place, Cup, Medal and HMs Special prize for youth entrants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland One year free subscription of the paper d-pixx for best author per division Clubs: 1. Place Cup, medals and HMS Youth Clubs: Cup, Medals and HMs Entry Fee 20 Є /30 US$ one Division, 30 Є /45US$ Euro two Divisions Entrants under the age of 21 are free of charge (proof of age is required, please send copy of ID with birth date to: info2016@germanphotocup.de) Pay per Paypal to: paypal@germanphotocup.de

3 1. Conditions of entry This is a digital image only exhibition. The competition is open to all amateur and professional photographers. All entrants accept the conditions of entry. All entrants must possess all rights to their images. All images and parts of images must be entirely the work of the entrant. Images may be submitted by CD or online. Images which were accepted in previous German International Photocups must not be submitted again. Also more or less identical images from a sequence will be rejected. To send identical images or variations in different divisions are not eligible. The competition organisation will reject images after the judging in case they will not follow the rules. Works submitted may be used free of charge for the catalogue and other publicity in connection with the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on our website. The organiser can accept no liability if the entrant does not own the necessary rights to the image. Images with suspicious rights will be rejected. All images and parts of them will not be used to any commercials of the sponsors. With the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP; that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking; that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations. The same investigations can made from each other organisation as PSA, RPS or GPU 2. Competition divisions Works accepted will count for the PSA star-rating and Who s Who in the division PID color (Projected Images Division) and ND (Nature Division). All acceptances are counting for FIAP titles. Youth entries will not judge separately. Acceptances and awards will count for adult FIAP titles. Only the Best Youth medal will count for youth distinctions. 3. Sections There is only one section, open images PIDC (color and BW) and nature ND. Please note the special conditions of nature division, see Entry Form Online entries per upload do not need any entry form. The entry form (Excel-sheet) must be submitted electronically by or with the CD if you may send your image in this way. It could be found on 5. Submission of entries The images must be sent as jpg-files with 8bit/sRGB (max. 1920x1080 Px and 2 MB per image). For each division a maximum of 4 images may be submitted. It will be recommended for the prize of best author to enter with 4 images! Clubs can enter with at least 6 members. The following methods of submission are possible: A. Upload (preferred) The images can be uploaded directly per Internet on our homepage. The image files should not be renamed. After the upload each entrant will receive a confirmation with thumbnails of the images. Please send the whole entry again if this may not happen! The address is: B. Images must be in JPG format, not zipped as.zip or.rar! Please name images as explained below. Please images to the following address: info2016@germanphotocup.de.

4 If mailing images please remember to include your entry form. C. By post on CD Images may be submitted on CD. Please include the entry form on CD! The CDs will not be returned. Postal address for entries: Norbert Heil Johannesstrasse 5 D Filderstadt Germany

5 6. File naming Only necessary if you send the images not per upload! The file name should have a prefix with the letter of the divison (C,N) and an order number of 1-4. The rest doesn t matter. File names must be identical to the file names listed in the entry form to prevent confusion. New rules from FIAP will not allow titles as, no title, unnamed etc.! Please note that file names should not be confused with image titles. Do not name the titles of the images with C1 or N1 etc! 7. Image size Maximum horizontal length 1920 pixels, vertical 1080 pixels. Smaller sizes will be accepted, but they will not projected in a full screen mode. Files should not exceed 2 MB per image (upload). We are judging on TV-Screens with Full HD resolution (1920x1080 px). 8. Judging Images in nature section will be poofed due to the rules of the nature definition, see 13. The entrant will receive a hint if an image will not follow the rules and he can change the "wrong" image. All images will be kept into the competition till the judges will disqualify and no image will deleted before judging. An entrant s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section. The judges will award the acceptances, medals and honourable mentions of the entered images. The guaranteed acceptance rate is 25% for each division. The score of best author as well as best youth is counted by the number of acceptances in one division during the total circuit. Each honourable mention scores an additional point, each medal 2 points. Only the highest score of an entrant in one division takes part in this ranking. In the case of identical top scores all judges will make the final decision. The decision of the judges is final. The club winner will be determined by the 6 best members of each club from the author s scoring. The winner of the d-pixx awards will be selected in the same way. 9. Entry fee The entry fee is 20 Euro for one division and 30 Euro for both divisions. Non European entries could pay alternative with 30 US$ for first division and 45 US$ for both. Paypal will be accepted. Due to the high clearance charges we regret that we cannot accept IRCs, foreign credit transfers or cheques drawn on foreign banks. To pay by Paypal please consult and send your payment to paypal@germanphotocup.de. Entry fee in cash should sent to the following address: Norbert Heil Johannesstrasse 5 D Filderstadt Germany Entrants under the age of 21 are free of charge. The appointed date of birthday to GIP 2016 will be 13th March All youth entrants have to copy an ID with birthday to proof their age. Youth entrants who have sent their IDs in former years have not to resend. Please note: Youth entrants without confirmation of age, will be rejected.

6 10. Club entries Club entries are welcome. The entry fee will be reduced per entrant to 15 Euro one division and 20 Euro both (22 or 30 US$) in case of 6 members. Please send a list of all club members who enter the circuit. Only listed members of a club will count for club scoring. Please fill in the club in the entry forms. Members who have not filled in the club name or took another name e.g. Fotoclub Filderstadt instead of FCF can not be included into the club score after presenting the results. The fee for a club entry should be paid once by one member. Online entries of club members: The payment should be ignored after the upload if the fee will be paid by one member. Entries without the due fees will not be judged! Sorry, no exceptions! The entry fee must arrive no later than the date of first judging. 11. List of acceptances and results Each participant will receive the report card only per as an acceptance list of the circuit. The report card contains the acceptances of the images and the ranking of the author s score. Images without any acceptance will not be published on this list. 12. Catalogue The catalogue will be a pdf.file. Each entrant will receive an with a link to download the catalogue. It will be posted on our website as download. There will be no CD produced and send per mail to an entrant. A printed version of the catalogue could be ordered by an extra fee of 20 Euro or 30 US$. Please visit our sponsors:

7 13. Nature Photography Definition (PSA, FIAP and RPS) Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history,except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning.techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to grey-scale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct-captures or derivations, are not allowed. Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife. Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food. Images entered in Wildlife sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above are further defined as one or more extant zoological or botanical organisms free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Landscapes, geologic formations, photographs of zoo or game farm animals, or of any extant zoological or botanical species taken under controlled conditions are not eligible in Wildlife sections. Wildlife is not limited to animals, birds and insects. Marine subjects and botanical subjects (including fungi and algae) taken in the wild are suitable wildlife subjects, as are carcasses of extant species. Wildlife images may be entered in Nature sections of Exhibitions.