Photocompete

• Copyright: Copyright of a photograph shall remain with its respective photographer at all times. All participants agree to grant PhotoShoot Awards and Hors cadre Inc. permission to showcase their work for promotional purposes
• Entry fee: From $ 30 CAD for one entry
• Entry deadline: 15th January 2015
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide, 18+

The photographs will focus primarily on emotion, beauty and a sense of freedom, though the portraits may also be provocative, amusing, natural, sophisticated, sensual, erotic, unexpected, classical, innocent or audacious. 

Categories:

• Academic nudes
• Emotion
• Men
• Body Parts
• Freedom
• Nature and scenery
• Conceptual
• Humour
• Nudes in Fashion
• Couple
• Intimate Urban
• Dance and movement
• Maternity

Awards:

• First Place Winner NUDE 2015 Award
• Second Place Winner NUDE 2015 Award
• Third Place Winner NUDE 2015 Award
• 1st Place Award (One in each category:  the photographer with the highest number of points. The judging committee  may decide not to pick a 1st place winner in a particular category if no image obtains a satisfactory rating based on the artistic requirements as same may be established or determined by the jury from time to time)
• Finalists (in each category)
• Special Recognition Awards evidenced by a special mention (The jury reserves the right to award special prizes to recognize, for example, and if necessary, a special feature, a technique, a photographer’s overall body of work, etc.).

Image requirements: Jpeg format; 72 dpi – 2000 pixels minimum on the longest side; RGB colors (for N&B also); No signature, no logos, no annoying copyright, site name, nor watermark text should appear on the photographs.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website. Selection criteria: the quality of the shot, composition, originality and imagination.

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