Photocompete

• Copyright: You give Metro the right to, including but not limited to, reproduce, amend, exhibit, print, use, and to any third party assign and sub-license the entry, in any form, for marketing and editorial purposes in any media related the challenge during five years from the date of the challenge’s closure.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 11th November 2012
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers from USA, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Hungary, France, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Canada, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Equator, Chile, Sweden and Peru.

Categories:

• My Country’s Best
• My Favorite
• My Night
• Temptation

Prizes:

• The winners in the four global categories will receive the Grand Prize which is a Greenland Photo Expedition in April 2013 (including: Return flight from hometown (or nearby hometown) of the winner to Greenland; accommodation for the full stay in Greenland in hotel and hut (8 nights)). Each Grand Prize has a value of 10.000 USD.

Judges: Mattias Klum, Esben Darling Meng, Lara Jade, Urban Brådhe,

The Metro Photo Challenge consists of three rounds of evaluation. In the first round ten photos are selected by the number of votes, likes and views in the four global categories. In the second round, the local jury will select one winner in each of the four global categories among the 40 selected photos from the first round based on the Judging Criteria in their sole discretion– announcement of local winners is 16 November 16 2012. The four (4) local winners in each country will be sent to the third round of evaluation where a global jury selects one winner in each of the four categories based on the Judging Criteria in their sole discretion. Announcement date of global winners is 30 November 2012.

Judging Criteria:

• Fit and relevance
• Creativity 
• Technical quality
• Overall Impression

Image requirements: JPG format; up to 12 Mb in file size; only minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping. Other photo editing such as HDR and stitched panoramas or collages must be tagged as ”Photo edited” in the uploading process on metrophotochallenge.com.

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