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NATURE AND HUMANS Photography Competition
Categories:
- Special Category 01 – “Nature and Humans – Thematic Series”
A series of six images, with a common conservation theme, investigating the relationship between the natural environment and us humans. The winning series will receive a cash prize of 2,000 euros. More detail about prizes can be found in Rule 4. - Special Category 02 – “Nature and Humans – Single Image”
- Special Category 03 – “Nature and Humans – Spain”
- Special Category 04 – “The Beauty of the Planet”.
- Special Category 05 – “The beauty of Spain”.
In addition, the following five thematic categories are established:
- Thematic Category 06 – Mammals
- Thematic Category 07 – Birds
- Thematic Category 08 – Oceans
- Thematic Category 09 – Landscape
- Thematic Category 10 – Creative
- Thematic Category 11 – Other Animals
Prizes:
- Special Category 01 “Nature and Humans – Thematic Series” The winning series will receive a cash prize of 2,000 (two thousand) euros, and the Runner-Upwill receive a cash prize of 500 (five hundred) euros, both offered by the Foundation.
- Special Category 02 “Nature and Humans – Single Image” The winning image will receive a cash prize of 2,000 (two thousand) euros, and the Runner-Upwill receive a cash prize of 500 (five hundred) euros, both offered by the Foundation.
- Special Category 03 “Nature and Humans – Spain” The winning image will receive a cash prize of 1,000 (one thousand) euros, and the Runner-Upwill receive a cash prize of 500 (five hundred) euros, both offered by the Foundation.
Online submission of digital images via the website. Each entrant may submit a maximum of 30 photographs and is free to choose the distribution of the images among the categories.
Image requirements:
JPG format and must contain their metadata or Exif data. This data is automatically encrypted and cannot be seen by the judges at any time, so it is not a problem if the metadata includes the authorship of the image. Images must be submitted without frames, signatures or watermarks.
IMPORTANT: the JPG image must have a minimum of 3000 pixels on its longest side and a resolution of 300dpi. The maximum size limit for each image is 100Mb.
Entrants may, at the time of submitting their photographs to the competition, also submit the RAW file of each image. This is voluntary at the time of submitting the JPG, but entrants might choose otro do so, in order to avoid having to submit the RAW if their entry is chose for the final phase of judging (moment in which, submitting the RAW image becomes compulsory).
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FOR YOU:
Always check your histogram to ensure a correct exposure. This is the graph that shows the distribution of pixels in tones from dark on the left, to white on the right. Don?t worry where this peaks, but you should make sure pixels never run off the ends – if they do it means picture detail is lost. You want to retain detail in the brightest and darkest parts of the picture. There will be times when this is impossible, such as if you have a white bird on a very dark background. But in such a case, by underexposing you will keep that all important feather detail in the bird’s white plumage. Similarly, you should try to avoid losing detail in a black bird.
Always check your histogram to ensure a correct exposure. This is the graph that shows the distribution of pixels in tones from dark on the left, to white on the right. Don?t worry where this peaks, but you should make sure pixels never run off the ends – if they do it means picture detail is lost. You want to retain detail in the brightest and darkest parts of the picture. There will be times when this is impossible, such as if you have a white bird on a very dark background. But in such a case, by underexposing you will keep that all important feather detail in the bird’s white plumage. Similarly, you should try to avoid losing detail in a black bird.