Better Photography BP WPOY 2016 Wedding Photographer of the Year Contest

Organization : Better Photography
Competition Name : BP WPOY 2016 Wedding Photographer of the Year Contest
Entries Last Date : October 1, 2016

Website :http://www.betterphotography.in/wpoy/

Wedding Photography Awards:

The very first edition of the Better Photography Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards (BP WPOY) was initiated in 2009 as national level awards, inviting participation from every state in India. With the aim of both recognising extraordinary talent in wedding photography, and lauding the finest image makers in the field, the response to these awards surprised us.

Related : Better Photography Toehold Wildlife Portraiture Contest : www.contest.net.in/14507.html

Beyond the bestowing of the title of “Better Photography Wedding Photographer of the Year” and the presentation of prizes at glittering felicitation events, the awards served a higher purpose. The winners and nominees were catapulted to new levels of success in their professional careers.

Registration Process:
Step-By-Step Participation:
1. Register yourself on our contest page betterphotography.in/wpoy and sign in. Alternatively, you can also login with your previous year’s credentials.
2. There are six categories to upload your photographs to.
3. The entries will be judged by a panel of 100 judges. Six category winners will be selected, who will battle it out for the grand prize in the final face-off round.

Entering The Competition:
** All entries need to be made online as uploads after logging in tobetterphotography.in/wpoy and filling up the registration form in detail.
** Entrants are allowed to participate in multiple themes (up to 4 images per theme, or a entry comprising a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 images in the photo-essay theme).
** Entrants are allowed to enter the same image in multiple themes, if the image is representative of that category.
** There are no print entries. Entries sent through email, prints, or through any other means, will not be considered.

Submission Guidelines For Digital Image Files:
** Entrants must ensure that they use the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to register, login and upload entries.
** Images must be in JPEG files with a minimum resolution of 2000 pixels on the shorter side. The file size should not exceed 5MB.
** There must be no identifying marks, names, dates or copyright information on the face of the images uploaded. This will immediately eliminate that image as an entry.
** While there are no restrictions on the type of camera used, uploaded images made with digital cameras of any sort must contain the original EXIF metadata information.
** Scanned film or prints must contain scanner EXIF metadata information.
** Once an entry is uploaded, the system does not allow the deletion of that entry. Entrants must ensure that they select their entries carefully before uploading.
** Entrants are not allowed to register themselves more than once with different identities. Any entrant found doing so, will be immediately disqualified.

Judging & Results:

** A panel of judges will be appointed by Better Photography to judge the competition during all its phases. Judging of entries will be anonymous, with no information about participants or images or videos available to judges.
** Entrants may be contacted for a high-resolution JPEG or RAW file of their image, original unedited footage, and other identification / age / residence documents, etc., for potential shortlisting purposes during the competition.
** Award nominees will be announced and showcased in one of the future issues of Better Photography. Keep following Better Photography and Overdrive’s websites, Facebook and Twitter pages for updates on the same.
** Entrants with the top ranking images in each category will need to make themselves available for a Final Face-off challenge.
** Failure to be available to participate in this Face-off automatically eliminates the entrant from being a category winner. The entrant with the next highest number of points will then be automatically selected.
** The decision of the judges will be final. Network18 will not enter into any correspondence regarding the judging or the organization of the competition.

Closing Date:
All entries must be uploaded latest by October 1, 2016.