| Copyright | By entering the Competition, the entrant grants to the Owners a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, publish, exhibit and communicate to the public, by any means and in all media throughout the world. |
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| Eligibility | Open to all photographers, worldwide |
| Finish | 2 March 2020 |
| Entry fee | Free |
FinishedPrizes:
- A cash prize of £1,000 will be awarded to the winner of Rugby Photograph of the Year.
- All shortlisted entries will have their work featured in a two-month long exhibition at the World Rugby Museum inside Twickenham Stadium.
Categories:
- Portrait
- Landscape
- Action
- Spirit of Rugby
- Young Photographer
- Rugby Portfolio (Entrants may submit up to ten images)
- Rugby Photograph of the Year
Online submission of digital photographs via the website.
Image requirements: JPEGs, saved at a high quality setting of at least 8 in Photoshop, Adobe RGB (1998), and at 1920 pixels along the longest dimension. No borders, watermarks or signatures. Entrants whose work has been shortlisted will be required to provide the following: RAW files (eg .CR2, .NEF, .ORF, .PEF etc), original untouched JPEGs, and original transparencies or negatives, will be required for authentication. Digital adjustments including tone and contrast, burning, dodging, cropping, sharpening, noise reduction, minor cleaning work (e.g. removal of sensor dust or scratches on transparencies/scans, removal of chromatic aberration), HDR, stitched panoramas, focus stacking and in-camera multiple exposure taken at the same location at the same time (as a continuous sequence – seconds or minutes apart) are permitted.
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