A Guide to Entering International Competitions By Ann Bastion FPSNZ EFIAP
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL who received awards in our 2019 International Salon. I would like to help you on your way to entering future international competitions by reinforcing some of the rules and requirements for international salons, in fact any salon. These rules are what you agree to abide by when entering such salons. To avoid disappointment by having your image disqualified you need to take note and read the rules pertaining to the particular salon you are entering. The following form a basic guideline for any salon, but there may also be particular restrictions given for the individual salon as well. You need to read the ‘Conditions of Entry’ that every salon will have on its website! • Any image, that has previously received an acceptance or higher in a salon, can’t be submitted again in the same salon the following year or any other year. • It can, however, be entered in any other salon that it has not had an acceptance from. There is software that is being used to check for this now. • A black and white version of a colour image is deemed to be the same image and must have the same title. • You can’t enter a colour image and a black and white version of the same image in the same salon. It has to be one or the other. • Once you have entered an image it must maintain that title in any subsequent salons in order to keep track of the image in the records.
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