1.The salon entry is open to photo friends spread all over the world. It will be organized under the approved rules of FIAP. All acceptances will count for FIAP. All Images must be the original work of the entrant. If two or more similar images are entered by the same author, the first one getting the acceptance score will be considered for acceptance or award, the other images will not be considered.
2.The exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization, or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.
3.An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section.
4.Sections: (A) Open Monochrome (B) Open Color (C) Nature (D) Photo Travel . All are digital Sections. An author may submit a maximum of 4 images in each section i.e 16 total images for 4 sections. Images for each section should be uploaded via www.grandsalon.in website.
5.An entrant's four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging.
6.Report Cards will be sent by E-Mail as well as displayed on www.empa.in website.
7.Permission to reproduce images in the catalogue or for publicity is assumed unless otherwise denied by the author; if permission is not allowed, such work will not be considered for award. Each entrant will receive a best quality PDF catalogue containing all awarded and few accepted works.
8.All Acceptances are eligible for statistics applicable to FIAP and FIP.
9.All the images will be showing the judges with multimedia projector. Media type JPEG, Resolution is 1024 / 768 pixel & color space is SRGB.
10.The decision of the Panel of selectors is final and binding, no further appeal will be entertained.
11.Submission of Entries to the Salon implies acceptance of the above rules & regulations.
12.Participants are requested to send their entries, Entry Fee etc. well in advance. Late entries will not be entertained and the Entry Fee will be retained. If the entry fee is not received within the closing date, Entries may not be considered for selection.
13.Please read the above regulations carefully and try to avoid unnecessary correspondences. Still for further queries, if, any, contact us at photofestclub@yahoo.in
14.With the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP; that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking; that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations."
15.All parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. Organizers are not responsible for any misuse of copyright.
16.Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of object via light sensitivity).Images may be altered digitally or otherwise by the entrant.
17.All the images will be displayed with multimedia projector. Media type JPEG, Resolution is 1024 / 768 pixel & color space is SRGB.
18.Please read the above regulations carefully and try to avoid unnecessary correspondences
