CONTEST RULES
1. COMPETITION CATEGORIES
A1. General category. This category includes all those photographs that show a Vall Fosca image or snapshot, that can be a landscape, a town, inherited elements, an activity that is real, a sample of the wild fauna or flora…
A2. Special annual category. 2023: Sports events that take place in Vall Fosca. This category will be defined every year. In 2023 the best photograph of any of the sports events that will take place in the Vall Fosca will be rewarded. It includes the following events: February 18, Open Vall Fosca, June 3 and 4, Vall Fosca Outdoor Sports Festival, July 1, Pedals de Foc Non Stop and July 15, La Cabanera.
In all the photographs that are present in the contests, the place in La Vall Fosca where the photo was taken, must be recognizable and described in the registration form.
2. AWARDS
After collecting the photographs, the jury will make a pre-selection of the winners, who will be the ones who will opt for the final prizes.
The awards are as follow:
- Manel Dalmau Award for the best 2024 photograph, €500 (subject to personal income tax)
- First prize of each category, €250 (subject to personal income tax)
- Honourable mention to to the 2 finalist photographs of each of the two categories.
Each author may submit a maximum of 4 photographs.
The winner of the Manel Dalmau prize for the best photography, will be part of the jury in the edition of the photography contest of the next year. So he/she will not be able to participate in the next edition of the photography contest.
Any participant can receive more than one prize.
The winners of any of the prizes, must attend the presentation of awards.
Award ceremony: September 7, 2024
3. DATA LIMIT
Photographs must be submitted through the website: www.vallfosca.net
The term for the presentation of photographs will end on 07/15/2024 at 2:00 p.m.
4. REGISTRATION AND FORMAT
Each author can participate with a maximum of 4 photographs, among the two categories, which he/she will have to submit through the web www.vallfosca.net.
A title and a pseudonym of the author will be placed on the photo. If an author mateix submits photographs to the two categories, he will have to use the pseudonym mateix, but it cannot be the mateix d’anys anteriores.
Only photos taken with digital devices, or digital analog photos will be accepted. The format of the images must be JPEG, converted to the RGB color space with the embedded profile. The measure must be 1920 pixels at its highest cost.
The organization will tender the original RAW/JPEG file of all the photographs that arrive at the final phase of the contest, in case of creure-ho opportú. You may request the original RAW/JPEG file in any other previous phase of the contest. Not presenting-ho will suppose the disqualification of the photo.
Images that do not meet the established format requirements will be rebutted. In the event that the grandadria continues to be superior, it will be automatically reduced to adjust to the measurements of the contest, and the organization is not responsible for the result.
The photographs that it is a puguin may request for its printing on paper, must not exceed 8 MP, and must be in the format that the organization described.
5. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
The manipulation or digital alteration of the photographs is not allowed. Only moderate adjustments that affect:
- Global color corrections, white balance, brightness, contrast, color saturation, and shadow and light adjustments.
- The conversion of the image to black and white, or other color changes.
- Moderate focus, selective reduction of digital noise and granulation.
- Elimination of vinyl etage, dust particles removal, along with the correction of optical distortions and aberrations.
- Reframing of the image, provided that the result does not exceed 8Mp without interpolation.
- Composite photographs of multiple exposures with HDR image results, panoramas, double exposures with the camera, and focus stacking (Focus-Stacking) are allowed, as long as they are captured in the matte sequence or work (in In this case, it will be necessary to inform the legend or description of the data in the photo), and always that you complete the principles of authenticity of the contest in such a way that there is not a real alteration of reality.
- Watermarks, margins or any kind of reference of the author to the submitted photo are not allowed.
- In the case of photographs taken with drones, the pertinent license of use is necessary.
6. GENERAL RULES
The photographs of the A1 category must have been taken during the last four years of this call.
The photographs of the A2 category must be of the current year.
It is not allowed to present the same photograph or a very similar one in more than one category.
The jury may invalidate or not accept photographs, which they consider are not adequate for this contest, that values the quality of the photo, the difficulty, etc.
Works awarded in other contests before the registration period of this year will not be accepted .
The images presented must be accompanied by the following information:
- Category
- Description of the image: the location of the photo must be stated obligatorily.
- In the case of difficult-to-locate photos, for example photos with drones, it is important to provide UTM location data to be able to check the location.
- Technical information, (camera, object, exposure, speed, ISO, etc.). Optional
- Any subsequent processing described in the previous section in the point of the technical requirements of this contest. Optional
7. JURY
The jury will be formed by 6 people and the popular vote:
- 4 independent photographers: Josep Amorós, Francesc Farrús, Ferran Grau and Alfons Ollé
- Winner of the contest of the previous edition: Joan Llimiñana
- 1 representative of the Torre de Capdella Town Hall.
- The popular vote is carried out through the web www.vallfosca.net
The jury may declare void any prize if they consider so.
The decisions of the jury are unappealable. So neither claim ror appeal will be accepted.
8. CALENDAR
Contest details:
Exhibition of selected photographs on the Vall Fosca website, www.vallfosca.net: from July 30 to August 26
The popular votes can be carried out through the website, www.vallfosca.net, from July 30 to August 26.
Presentation and award ceremony: September 7, 2024
9. LEGAL ASPECTS
Participants declare they are the authors of each work submitted to the contest and have all rights of the works.
Photographs including a person who can be recognized or identified, must include the consent of that person, and the permission to image rights. The organizers of these contests are not responsible for possible demands on them authors, which could cause the disqualification of photography.
The winning photographs and those with honourable mentions, may be reproduced in books, catalogs, billboards or any other offline or online publication, always mentioning the name of the author, who selflessly give up the rights of reproduction to the organization of the contest for this finality. This transfer has a non-exclusive nature.
For the rest of the photos, the rights of ownership of the image are of the authors of the works, and if anyone wants to use them, he/she has to contact the author to get the authorization.
Protection of data: according to Regulation (UE) 2016/679 of the Parliament and the Consell of April 27 related to the protection of natural persons for the processing of personal data and free circulation of data, the participants of this contest will be informed that their data will be included in a file owned by the Town Hall, with the purpose of carrying out the management of this sociocultural event. There exists also the possibility of exercising the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition, in the terms included in the current legislation, throught an application presented in the Registry of Torre de Capdella town hall.
Submitting photos to the present edition of the contest involves the acceptance of all the sections of this regulation.