What: Sun Star Cebu's Annual Photo Contest Competition
Celebrate Cebu Mechanics
1. Sun.Star Photo Contest is open to all amateur and professional photographers in the Philippines except direct employees of the company and their relatives to the 3rd degree of consanguinity.
2. To join, applicants are required to fill out entry forms which they can get from any Sun.Star Cebu branch (P. del Rosario St., Fuente or Mandaue Branch)
3. Submitted photos for “Celebrate Cebu” and “Timeless Cebu” must have a location, date, name of photographer, brief description and must be identifiably taken in any place of Cebu.
4. All photos submitted as entries must be taken within the contest dates, May – Sept. 2011.
5. Pictures must be colored or black & white.
6. Photos must be shot in raw format. Entry pictures must be in 8×10 prints, free of any watermarks or any markings and submitted with corresponding JPG and RAW/NEF files inside a CD or DVD.
7. Digital manipulation acceptable is adjustments to color, contrast, brightness and sharpness; removal of dust and scratches; cropping; and black and white conversions. Not acceptable are photo composites (combination of two or more photos); the addition, duplication, deletion or moving of objects in the photos; Infrared photos are not allowed.
8. Only two (2) photos per category per month may be submitted free of charge per photographer. A charge of P100/photo will be imposed for additional entries up to a maximum of ten additional entries per category per month.
9. Photos submitted must have been unpublished and should not have been posted in any website or social networking sites.
10. Two entries per category will be chosen as winners every month and these will qualify for the grand finals on October 2011.
11. Entries per month must be submitted on or before the following dates: May 31, June 30, July 29, August 31 and September 30, 2010. Winning entries every month will be announced in the newspaper. Non-winning entries for the month will not qualify for the next month’s judging.
12. All winning entries will be published in the Cebu Yearbook 2011 issue.
13. The decision of the Board of Judges shall be final.
14. All entries judged as finalists and winners shall become the property of Sun.Star and cannot be reproduced or reprinted by any other publication without the permission of Sun.Star Cebu. Photographers will be given photo credits every time the picture will be published.
All non-winning monthly entries for both categories Celebrate Cebu and Timeless Cebu will have a chance to win. The entry from each category with the highest number of votes will qualify for the finals as wildcard entries, only 1 entry per category/per month will be chosen.
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Timeless Cebu Mechanics
1. Sun.Star Photo Contest is open to all amateur and professional photographers in the Philippines except direct employees of the company and their relatives to the 3rd degree of consanguinity.
2. To join, applicants are required to fill out entry forms which they can get from any Sun.Star Cebu branch (P. del Rosario St., Fuente or Mandaue Branch)
3. Submitted photos for “Celebrate Cebu” and “Timeless Cebu” must have a location, date, name of photographer, brief description and must be identifiably taken in any place of Cebu.
4. All photos submitted as entries must be taken within the contest dates, May – Sept. 2011.
5. Pictures must be colored or black & white.
6. Photos must be shot in raw format. Entry pictures must be in 8×10 prints, free of any watermarks or any markings and submitted with corresponding JPG and RAW/NEF files inside a CD or DVD.
7. Digital manipulation acceptable is adjustments to color, contrast, brightness and sharpness; removal of dust and scratches; cropping; and black and white conversions. Not acceptable are photo composites (combination of two or more photos); the addition, duplication, deletion or moving of objects in the photos; Infrared photos are not allowed.
8. Only two (2) photos per category per month may be submitted free of charge per photographer. A charge of P100/photo will be imposed for additional entries up to a maximum of ten additional entries per category per month.
9. Photos submitted must have been unpublished and should not have been posted in any website or social networking sites.
10. Two entries per category will be chosen as winners every month and these will qualify for the grand finals on October 2011.
11. Entries per month must be submitted on or before the following dates: May 31, June 30, July 29, August 31 and September 30, 2010. Winning entries every month will be announced in the newspaper. Non-winning entries for the month will not qualify for the next month’s judging.
12. All winning entries will be published in the Cebu Yearbook 2011 issue.
13. The decision of the Board of Judges shall be final.
14. All entries judged as finalists and winners shall become the property of Sun.Star and cannot be reproduced or reprinted by any other publication without the permission of Sun.Star Cebu. Photographers will be given photo credits every time the picture will be published.
