INSPIRE Print Competition 2021

Professional Photographers’ Association of Pennsylvania

2021 Inspire Print Competition Rules & Guidelines

Eligibility:

Anyone may enter the competition. Only members of PPA of PA whose dues are paid by March 18, 2021, are eligible for PPA of PA awards. All non-members of PPA of PA will be considered for the Non-Member Trophy, which is awarded to the top scoring image by a non-member. Images must be submitted through PrintCompetition.com to be included in the competition.

Entry Fees:

The entry fee is $20 per image for members & $25 per image for non-members.

Entrants may submit up to 20 images in each competition – Photographic Open, Artist Open & Wedding Open. Each entrant may enter up to a total of 60 images.

Recorded Critiques are available from an IPC juror for $10 each

Top Image Designation:

While up to 20 images may be submitted, only four images per Open are eligible for awards. When submitting images through PrintCompetition.com, choose the four images in each Open that you want to be considered for awards by selecting “Top Case Designation”

Photographic Open:

Entrants must have captured and or created the original exposure. All elements within the image must have been created or captured by the entrant. All artwork or post-processing must be done by the entrant or under their direct supervision.

Categories:

Portrait

• General Portrait – This sub-category includes families, groups, couples and adults (18 and older), relationships, models and fashion portraits, in addition to tastefully artistic figure studies. 
• Child – This sub-category must contain a child or children from birth to age 16.
• High School Senior – This sub-category portrays a person age 16 to 18.
• Animal Portrait– This sub-category captures an animal(s) using structured lighting in a studio or outdoor environment, where the animal is controlled by the owner or photographer.

Illustrative

• Landscape – This category includes, but is not limited to, mountain ranges, cityscapes, sunrises & sunsets with or without people, urban landscapes, waterfalls, rivers, etc. 
• Nature – This category includes wild animals in an uncontrolled lighting environment, flowers & plants, or other aspects of nature that do not fit the Landscape category. Animals photographed on a safari, in a wild animal park or zoo would be placed in this category.
• General Illustrative –  Images that do not fit the Landscape or Nature category. Entries can be, but are not limited to, conceptual or abstract images.

Commercial

This category is for images created to help promote, market, or sell a product or service.  A tear sheet is optional but highly recommended as it shows how the image is used for commercial purposes.

Album

This category includes event and non-event albums. Event albums document social events such as, but not limited to, weddings, bar and bat mitzvah’s, birthdays & anniversaries. Non-event albums tell a story about one or more subjects. Multi-maker albums are allowed if each maker enters the competition, pays the appropriate fee & contributes at least 20 images.

Creative

This category consists of images that have additional elements not created by the maker. Guide images of all elements not created by the maker must be included on the submitted image.

This category is for images that use someone else’s elements in the final image. The entrant must be able to provide releases for elements used, as needed.

Pennsylvania 

Images in this category should be representative of the state of Pennsylvania. All images must be captured within the state of Pennsylvania. Illustrative, portraits, commercial or artistic images are accepted.Categories:

Artist Open:

Images in the Artist category are judged for artistic, digital and technical proficiency. Entries can be created from existing photographs, portraits, graphics or any other artwork as long as the entrant is able to provide appropriate written documentation verifying permission for use. All processing manipulation artwork or rendering must be done by the entrant. Guide images must be included on the submitted image.

Categories:

Restoration 

The reconstruction of an old or damaged image.  

Creative

Images created by any artistic technique (not restoration).

Wedding Open:

The purpose of this competition is to allow photographers to enter images created during the actual Wedding Event. For an image to be merit worthy in the wedding competition, additional evaluation may be considered for the entries that illustrate the personality of the subject or subjects and the story of the wedding as well as the artistic and technical skills of the image maker.  

Judges will keep in mind that the maker may have limited control over many aspects of a wedding – subject matter, environment and time of day, etc. Ultimately, additional consideration may be given to the maker for technically and artistically executing at a merit level in spite of challenges involved at an actual wedding.

Categories:

Single Image

Images that were captured on the wedding day.

Wedding Album

All images in the album must be from the wedding day. 

Please contact Aaron Beale, PPA of PA Print Chair, with any questions:

ARBealePhotography@icloud.com

717-686-0956

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Professional Photographers’ Association of Pennsylvania

2021 Inspire Print Competition Awards

Only PPA of PA members whose dues are paid by March 18, 2021, are eligible for PPA of PA awards.

All PPA of PA Awards except for Photographer, Artist, Wedding Photographer & Image Maker of the Year are chosen by the judges, The PPA of PA Image Maker of the Year is awarded to the maker with the highest scoring four images, with all four images scoring at least 80. The CPP Award & ASP State Elite Award are awarded to the highest scoring image by an eligible entrant.

Trophies are available for each of the following categories:

Photo Open Awards

Portrait – Animal

                Awarded to the Best Animal Portrait

Portrait – H.S. Senior

                Awarded to the Best H.S. Senior image

Portrait – Child

                Awarded to the Best Portrait of a Child

Portrait – General

                Awarded to the Best Portrait not in the Animal, H.S. Senior or Child sub-categories

Commercial

                Awarded to the Best Commercial image

Creative

                Awarded to the best image that incorporates an element/elements not created by the maker. Requires guide image/images for added elements.

Pennsylvania 

                Awarded to the image that best represents Pennsylvania

Album

                Awarded to the Best Album, this may be an event or non-event album

Illustrative – General

                Awarded to the Best Illustrative image, as chosen by the judges.

Illustrative – Landscape – Monteith Award for Best Landscape Image 

                Awarded to an image within the Illustrative – Landscape category

                This award is named in honor of Ann & Jim Monteith.

Illustrative – Nature – Campanellie Award for Best Nature Image 

                Awarded to a Wildlife image within the Illustrative – Nature category

                This award is named in honor of Joe Campanellie.

Artist Open Awards

Creative 

                Awarded to the Best Creative Artist image

Restoration

                Awarded to the Best Restoration 

Wedding Open Awards

Wedding Image

                Awarded to the Best Wedding Image

Wedding Album

                Awarded to the Best Wedding Album

Non-Member Trophy

Awarded to the highest scoring image by a non-member of PPA of PA.

CPP Award

This award recognizes the highest scoring Certified Professional Photographer print, album, or electronic submission.

ASP State Elite Award

The State Elite Award is to be presented to the ASP member in good standing for the highest scoring entry at his or her State Print Competition. This means that he or she is a member in good standing with PPA as per our Bylaws and that he or she must be current with their ASP dues PRIOR to the competition. In the event of a tie, total case score will be the first tiebreaker. 

To be eligible for any of the following awards, the member is required to designate their four eligible images per Open at the time of registration.

Photographer of the Year

Member whose four eligible images score the highest in the Photo Open, with all images scoring at least 80

Artist of the Year

Member whose four eligible images score the highest in the Artist Open, with all images coring at least 80

Wedding Photographer of the Year

Member whose four eligible images score the highest in the Wedding Open, with all images coring at least 80

Image Maker of the Year

Awarded to the Photographer, Artist or Wedding Photographer of the year with the highest combined score. 

Please contact Aaron Beale, PPA of PA Print Chair, with any questions:

ARBealePhotography@icloud.com

717-686-0956