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Organization : Landscape Wizards
Competition Name : Confluence 2016 Photo Hop Contest
Applicable For : All Indian Photographers
Competition Last Date : Mar 16th, 2016

Website : http://www.theconfluence.co.in/photo-hop/

Photo Hop

We invite you to submit your best landscape image to the “Photo Hop” contest page now! Entries to the contest will be accepted through March 18th when submissions will close. Winners of the contest will be chosen and announced on April 2nd at “The Confluence 2016” event.

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Terms and Conditions:
1. This contest is open for all Indian photographers
2. Participants can submit the images starting from Feb 15th till Mar 16th, 2016.
3. Images should be of Landscapes only. Images of Wildlife or macro are NOT allowed for this contest.
4. Each participant can submit a maximum of three images.
5. There is no age bar for the participants and there is no separate category based on the criteria of age.
6. It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure that they have read and will abide by the terms and conditions of the competition. By submitting an entry, each participant agrees to the terms and condition, that their entry complies with these rules.
7. Submitted images should not be a composite or two or more images.
8. Stitched Panorama images are allowed for the competition.
9. Organizer of the contest will be allowed to use the winning images in promotion of the contest and the event. For any other use, the organizers will get in touch with the photographers before using the image.
10. Members from organizing team, sponsors & partners are not allowed to participate in the contest
11. The entry for the competition is FREE.
12. Submissions must be made only via theconfluence.co.in website

Technical Specification of the entries:
1. All images must be in JPEG format, RGB mode, with a maximum size of 1920 pixels (on the long edge).
2. Photographs with borders, frames, watermarks or signatures will not be accepted and disqualified from judging process.
3. Every entry must be submitted along with the description of the image. The description should contain the location of the image made, equipment used including any filters or any other technique and the post processing involved.
4. Post processing of the images is allowed but it should not deviate the original image too much from the reality. Ex: Adding or removing any elements in the frame etc are strictly not allowed.
5. Composite images are allowed if done for focus stacking or exposure stacking. Other than these two categories no other composite images are allowed.
5. For the shortlisted entries the organisers will ask for the RAW file or original JPG file for verification. Failing to provide so would result in disqualification from the final round.

The winner would be considered based on Technical and Artistic value of the image.

Winners and Prizes:
** Among all the submissions FIVE images will be selected as winners and there will be no order of merit for the winners.
** There is no cash prize in this contest. Prizes for the winners will be in the form of photography goodies.