UK Competition

Received in email from HP recently.

Digital Camera magazine’s prestigious Photographer of the Year competition is now open for entries with a colossal cash prize of £15,000! There are 10 creative and diverse categories and you can enter up to five pictures in each category. All categories are open for entries until July.

Homepage: http://link.foryou.hp.com/r/24MRF0/F...QL/EXL85/CM/h/
Category list: http://poty2007.dcmag.co.uk/categories.aspx


An interesting approach to editing of digital images, quite fair I think. And surprising (I underlined a few).

5. Image editing
You may use image enhancement and manipulation to optimise an entry into the competition, although you are not allowed to add or remove significant elements. To clarify:

* Adjustments to colour, contrast, saturation, levels and curves and sharpening are expected.
* Cropping is allowed, as is stitching to create panoramic images.
* Cloning should be limited to general cleaning work - no significant elements of a composition should be removed or added.
* Dodging and burning is permitted.
* Perspective adjustments to correct for lens distortions are allowed.

Where appropriate, original files may be requested if a photograph reaches the shortlist of photographs selected by the independent panel of judges.