Official Rules
The Organizer
Snapshot Sacramento, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to promoting Sacramento, Sacramento photographers (professional and amateur) and helping our community through the sales of various photographic products.
Eligibility
The event is open to all amateur and professional photographers who are not prohibited by any law or regulation from entering, and who have access to the internet.
No entry fee or other payment is required to enter, nor is the purchase of any item or service necessary.
An image that has won a prize in a national or international competition or that has been used for commercial purposes (i.e. generated payment or been published) may not be eligible for entry.
The organizers reserve the right at their sole discretion to reject any photographs which are deemed to be offensive, obscene, and defamatory or in any other way inappropriate or incompatible with the competition.
Entry Procedure
Entries must be taken between 12:01 AM, September 13, 2009 and 11:59 PM, September 19, 2009 and submitted online by 11:59 PM, September 25, 2009 in accordance with the instructions set out on www.snapshotsacramento.com. By submitting an entry entrants will be deemed to have fully read these terms and conditions and agreed to be bound by them.
A maximum of five entries per person are permitted. The original files must be submitted in high resolution JPEG format.
Theme
The images should be of “Sacramento County” and exude a sense of place and experience, an inspiring moment, pride of family and community captured during the week of September 13 – 19, 2009. Images may include, but are not limited to;
- Home and Family Life
All types of activities, even as mundane as taking out garbage. Examples of the kinds of images that we are looking for include but are not limited to: All ages – babies to seniors; eating, drinking, cooking; driving; dating; changing diapers; raising family; playing with pets; listening to music; painting toenails; engaging in hobbies; religion; recreation; and weddings, just to name a few. - Work
People in any and all professions/occupations. Take your camera to work and capture your co-workers at their best. - Play
Sports of all kinds; individual and team, competitive and non-competitive. Images depicting health, fitness, exercise, adventure as well as family and kids playing indoors and outdoors. - Faith
With over 470 churches is the Sacramento County; it is safe to say that worship/faith is a major part of our community. Therefore, we want to include these images in our publications. - Sacramento
Sacramento County encompasses approximately 994 square miles in the middle of the 400-mile long Central Valley, which is California's prime agricultural region. The County is bordered by Contra Costa and San Joaquin Counties on the south, Amador and El Dorado Counties on the east, Placer and Sutter Counties on the north, and Yolo and Solano Counties on the west. Sacramento County extends from the low delta lands between the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers north to about ten miles beyond the State Capitol and east to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. When shooting make sure that flattering pictures of as many notable landmarks as possible are covered. Ideally, you should include location pictures with and without people in them.
Display of the Photos and Publicity
By submitting a photograph to Snapshot Sacramento, all entrants agree to:
- having their photograph(s) being displayed, together with the entrant’s name, title of the submission within publications, promotional material, publicity and/or public relations. I understand these images may be used in a calendar, newspapers or magazines, gallery showings, Web sites (electronic form), posters or in-house publications to name a few.
- receiving no compensation for the use of my image by Snapshot Sacramento and expressly release Snapshot Sacramento, and all individuals and/or organizations involved in the production/use of my image, from any privacy, defamation, or other claims I may have raising out of the use of my image.
Judging
The organizers will appoint an independent judging panel to determine which photographs will be used in Snapshot Sacramento’s publications. The judging criteria will include: adherence to theme, composition, creativity and originality.
The decision of the judges is at their sole discretion and in each case is final and binding. The organizers will not enter into any discussion or correspondence regarding the judging.
Notification
Photographers will be notified of the use of their photographs in the 2010 Snapshot Sacramento calendar on or before October 15, 2009. NOTE: Although submitted photographs may not appear in the calendar, they may still be used for the online gallery and possible sales and promotion.
Copyright
It is a condition of submission to Snapshot Sacramento that each photograph submitted is the original work of the entrant/photographer and that the entrant/photographer owns full unconditional worldwide copyright and all other intellectual rights in it. By submitting any such photograph each entrant/photographer warrants to Snapshot Sacramento that it does not infringe the privacy, copyright or other intellectual property rights of any third party.
Liability
Images are uploaded onto the Snapshot Sacramento web-site at the entrant’s risk and the organizers cannot accept any liability for the unauthorized duplication or use of images submitted to the web-site.
Snapshot Sacramento will not be liable for technical, hardware or software failures of any kind or lost or unavailable network connections which may limit or prohibit an eligible entrant's ability to participate in the Snapshot Sacramento publications.
Use of the Photographs by the Organizer
It is a condition of entry that in relation to each photograph submitted, the entrant thereby grants to the organizer a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, transferable, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly display, distribute, sub-license, modify, make derivative works and otherwise fully exploit such photograph for all commercial purposes, including marketing and promotion of Snapshot Sacramento, through any media outlet and in any format without attribution of copyright to the entrant and without any payment, compensation or permission.
Submission
All images submitted must be in a digital format (see specifications below) online by the closing date of 11:59p.m. September 25, 2009.
- Images submitted must be accompanied by photo releases from each and every recognizable person in the image (no exceptions), as well as a photographer’s release.
- By submitting images to Snapshot Sacramento, you agree to all of the terms stated.
- Send images that are clear and sharp. Pre-edit your photos.
- Include ALL release information.
- Sufficient caption and credit information must be included with ALL of submitted high resolution image files.
Specifications
Image TypeWe accept JPEG images up to 12mb.
- Save your JPEG at maximum quality.
- White balanced, color, exposure, contrast, etc. adjusted and corrected.
- No interpolations (enlargement).
- No manipulations, except color correction (that is correction, not enhancement).
- No sharpening.
- 16"x24" (approximate proportion)
- 4800x7200 pixels (approximate proportion)
- RGB mode - 10.3mb (approximate file size)
- 300dpi
- 8"x12" (approximate proportion)
- 2400 x 3600 pixels (approximate proportion)
- RGB mode - 3.36mb (approximate file size)
- Subject name (first and last name of everyone in the photograph)
- Where the photograph was taken (street, location name, etc)
- When the photograph was taken (date and time)
- What is going on at the time of the photograph
The following information must be included in the image metadata tag:
- Document Title
- Author/Creator
- Description – this should include your caption with the information listed above
Metadata is information that is part of the image file and contains information about the image itself and the creation of the image.
Some examples are: the Aperture used, Exposure time, ISO value, Focal length, information about the lens used, the time and temperature when the photo was taken, the name of the camera owner, the firmware version and serial number of the camera, a shutter count and many more.
You can edit your metadata tags with several software programs. Here are a few that are available.
- Photoshop
- Adobe Bridge
- PhotoME www.photome.de/home_en.html
- Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/tools.aspx
Image editing
Entrants may use image enhancement and manipulation to optimize an entry but are not allowed to add or remove any significant elements. Original files may be requested by the judges if a photograph reaches the shortlist of photographs.
Organizer
Snapshot Sacramento
www.SnapshotSacramento.com
info@SnapshotSacramentoocom
Click HERE for Official Rules (PDF).
Click HERE for Entry Form (PDF).
Click HERE for Model Release (PDF).
Click HERE to register.