DEFSAD “Forum Çamlık” 1st International Photography Exhibition is organised by DEFSAD - Denizli Art of Photography Association; from Denizli- Turkey.

DEFSAD “Forum Çamlık” 1st International Photography Exhibition is divided in 6 sections, 2 PRINT & 4 DIGITAL
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 1-DIGITAL: NATURE (Monochrome & Color) DN
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 2-DIGITAL: OPEN (Color) DC
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 3-DIGITAL: OPEN (Monochrome) DM
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 4-DIGITAL: SHOPPING (Monochrome &Color) DS
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 5-PRINT: OPEN (Color) PC
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 6-PRINT: OPEN (Monochrome) PM

Starting date: 11.10.2016
Closing date: 15.01.2017 23:59 Turkey Time Zone
Judging date: 21-22.01.2017
Notification: 28.01.2017
Exhibition and public show: 22th February 2017 DEFSAD Denizli / TURKEY
SEND of the catalogues and awards to the authors by end of the 25 April 2017

<b>GENERAL:</b> The entry fee is mandatory for all participants and € 20 / 25 USD for 4 categories. All participants must pay the entry fee.
If the participants want to enter 6 categories they will pay € 25 / 30 USD .
Turkish participants will pay 50 TL for 4 categories. If they want to enter 5 or 6 categories, they will pay 70 TL.
• The competition has a total of 6 (six) separate categories. Competitors can participate up to 4 (four) photos in each category.
• Entry fee is included V.A.T
The fee can be paid via PayPal through our web site: http://contest.defsad.org/
our paypal account is <b>[email protected]</b>

Name: Denizli Fotograf Sanati Dernegi
Bank and Branch Name: Ziraat Bankasi 2064-Camlik Subesi (City – DENIZLI)
IBAN No: TR75 0001 0020 6458 8220 8750 01

<b>Paypal: [email protected]</b>
The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.

DEFSAD “Forum Çamlık” 1st International Photography Exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world.
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. 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.

The title written at the back of the photos should match the title mentioned at the application form. In case of nonconformities, application form will not be taken into account.
<b>DIGITAL SECTIONS:</b> Photographs will be sent in digital form, as a picture file with dimensions; shorter side maksimum 1920 pixels horizontal in dimension and maksimum 1080 pixel vertical in JPEG format at 300 dpi resolution , 7-12 quality and photo size not greater than 4MB. We will use Epson Full HD high resulation projector for the presentation of judge.

<b>PRINT SECTIONS:</b> Participants must print the photographs on photo paper and send them by post or courier . You must connect to our web address contest.defsad.org then upload your print categories photos like in digital sections rules then send by post or corruier. Your package must include your 8 prints photos in color and monochrome categories. Authors that request their printed photographs returned, an additional return fee of 20 Euros is mandatory. For Turkish participants, the fee for return is 20 TL. Prints will not be returned if return fee is not paid.
Authors can send self-made prints with long size maximum 50 cms. (no need frame or free space). Short Size can be maximum 40 cms. The back of each photo must have the following info: first and last name, artist’s address, photo club, title of photo, progressive number and total number of photos presented by the same artist (example;”1/4”, “2/4”, ... )in each section. The title written at the back of the photos should match the title mentioned at the application form. In case of nonconformities, application form will be taken into account.
If your printed photos are damaged within the package and sending, DEFSAD does not accept liability for problems.
The judging will be done on the pictures sent in on photo paper. There will be no judging of the digital files of PRINT SECTIONS. These digital files are only intended for possible catalogue use.
<b>Please send your printed photos to the adress below;
To Attn: Mehmet ÇAKIR
Atalar Mah. 962 Sok. 10/A Pamukkale - 20150 Denizli / TÜRKİYE</b>

• All participants must enter the www.defsad.org and contest.defsad.org to join the contest.They must accept the Conditions of Participation(entry rules). Participants must check the acceptance box. Then check the accept box. Participants are deemed to have accepted all the terms.
• If you have any problem while uploading\submitting the photos (over the Internet or user-induced errors may occur in the system in the event) please contact the [email protected] or [email protected] and the problem will be fixed as soon as possible. This address is only used if the photo upload problems occur or information needed.You must not send the photographs to this e-mail.If you send your photos to this e-mail, they will not be accepted.
• Awarded and the accepted photos will be exhibited in www.defsad.org and also in DEFSAD building with projection. Also awarded prizes, honorable mentions and special awards of the photos will be published on TFSF web site www.tfsf.org.tr and will take place on the pages in the book of Almanac 2017.
• In case of detection of the works does not conform to the specification at the end of the contest,the prize or degree will be withdrawn.
• If the work that the participant sent do not belong to him or the evaluation board decides of the pariticipant any intention to deceive, the infraction process is applied, and this person will be restricted for one year to any contest participation in accordance with TFSF Competition Policy and for a second rule violation, if the TFSF approves, the participant will be banned indefinitely from competitions. This situation will also be reported to FIAP.
The photographers who are in the Red List of TFSF and FIAP are not allowed to participate DEFSAD Forum Çamlık 1st International photo contest .
• Author of allowed senders to this issue is taken by themselves, conflicts arising declare that all responsibilities and commit to their own. In disputes that may arise in this regard Denizli Art of Photography Association (DEFSAD) will not be responsible.
• Jury committee who attended the photo does not have to choose prizes and honorable mentions. This decision belongs entirely jury.
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.

All parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted.

In the general interest of the event, the reproduction of the remitted works is allowed in the printed or digital catalogue, except when expressly prohibited by the author. In this matter the rules about copyright have to be strictly followed. Under no circumstances the organizer is allowed to use the pictures handed in for other purposes.

Vladimir JOVANOVSKI - IAAP Director - Macedonia
Hulki MURADI - AFIAP, - Turkey
BURAK SENBAK - EFIAP\b, UPI Hermes, Hon.SSS - Turkey
(In alphabetical order by surname)

Alternates:
Nizami CUBUK, AFIAP
Ali GUVEN, EFIAP

In DEFSAD “Forum Çamlık” 1st International Photography Exhibition these medals and awards will be awarded :
1x FIAP BLUE BADGE-BEST OF DEFSAD 2017
6 x FIAP Gold, Silver and Bronze medal and 36 ribbons,
6 x IAAP Gold, Silver and Bronze medal and 36 ribbons,
6x GPU Gold, Silver and Bronze medal and 36 ribbons,
6x DEFSAD Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal, 36 ribbons.
1x TFSF Special award in Nature Category
1x Forum AVM Special Award in Shopping Category
Acceptances will be no less than 8% and no more than 25% in each category

<b>PSA, FIAP, and RPS Monochrome Definition</b>
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black & white work toned entirely in a single color will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black & white category; such a work may be reproduced in black & white in the catalogue. On the other hand a black and white work modified by partial toning or by the addition of one color becomes a color work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category.
A monochrome image is defined as having varying shades of no more than one color (various shades of that color from very light to very dark) but it may be any single color. Multi-toned images (various shades of two or more colors) and greyscale images with an added accent color are not acceptable in Monochrome Class sections and must be entered in Color Class sections.
Close up pictures of people or objects must include distinguishable environment. Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. Conversion to full monochrome is acceptable. Derivations, including infrared, are unacceptable.
A monochrome print is defined as having no more than two colors, monochrome (various shades of grey from black to white) plus one other color. A monochrome print toned in a single color will remain a monochrome work.

<b>PSA, FIAP, and RPS Nature Definition</b>
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed
person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The storytelling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct captures or derivations, are not allowed.
Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.

<b>Definition of Nature Photography</b>
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. Color images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared images, either directcaptures or derivations, are not allowed. Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife. Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.

<b>Definition of the black and white photography (monochrome)</b>
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category; such a work can be reproduced in black and white in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage. On the other hand a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

Notification will be sent by email AND you can download from competition website.
Web Catalog link will be sent to all participants by e-mail. All awards also It will be sent by post. The organizer will take all possible care while handling the email, awards and catalogues, however we assume no liability for damages and loses during shipment.

<b>Salon Chairman:</b> Mr. Sirzat TEMİZ , AFIAP
e-mail: [email protected]
GSM: +90 506 509 5069
<b>Organisation Commitee:</b>
Ali ASLAN, AFIAP
Ali GUVEN, EFIAP
Ali OZTURK