PSA Competition Guidelines

2024 – 2025
Quick Summary

Submission deadlines  are:
February 7, 2025

April 7, 2025

• There are two PSA categories that our club participates in:
  • Projected Digital Image Division: Color (PID)
  • Projected Digital Image Travel Division (PTD)
• All images are to be emailed to Tom Camal at tcamal@verizon.net  no later than the competition deadline, otherwise they will not be submitted into the competition.
• Your email subject should be PSA Entry for MCC.
• Indicate which division the submission is for PID or PTD.
• You will receive an email confirming receipt of your submission and its entry into the competition.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

• A member can submit only one image per competition.
• Submissions received after the deadline will be returned to the maker. The image can be resubmitted for a subsequent competition.
• An image can be submitted to only one division.
• All previous images if they did not win an award (Merit or HM) can now be entered again in the same competition.
• The first six submissions that meet the criteria listed below will be entered into the competition.
• If there are more than six submissions, the extra ones will be held for submission to the next competition.
• Submissions that do not meet the criteria listed below will be returned to the maker for correction and must be resubmitted by the appropriate deadline.
• Rules for sizing images
  • They must be no larger than 1920 wide and 1080 high.
  • Vertical images cannot exceed 1080 pixels in height
  • Horizontal images cannot exceed 1920 pixels in width
  • Square images cannot exceed 1080 pixels on all sides
• All images must be submitted as JPGs and need to be converted to the sRGB color space.
• Images will be projected as received
• Unless your image proportions are in the exact ratio of 4 to 3, one of these dimensions will be less than maximum. The image will be projected as received, as long as not over the maximum
• There are no file size restrictions
• The name of the file should only contain the title of the image.

PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGE COLOR:  DEFINITIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• In this Inter-club Competition only color images are acceptable. 
• The subject matter is unrestricted.
• Images may be altered by the maker and artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated if the photographic content predominates.
• Images may not be constructed entirely within the computer.

PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGE TRAVEL DIVISION:  DEFINITIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• All images must meet the following Travel Definition:
  • A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally.
• There are no geographic limitations.
• Images from events or activities arranged specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate.
• Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment.
• Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted.
• The only allowable adjustments are removal of dust or digital noise, restoration of the appearance of the original scene, and complete conversion to greyscale monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared and toned monochrome, are not permitted.
• All images must appear natural.
• NOTE: Portraits of people which do not include sufficient environment are liable to be scored very low as not meeting the concept of ‘features that provide information about the environment.’
• Images which have been too ‘worked’ or ‘processed’ and no longer look like photographs are liable to be scored very low as not ‘appearing natural.

STATEMENTS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – IMAGE CREATION AND OWNERSHIP

All images should be emailed to Tom Camal

Direct all questions to Tom Camal