1. ORGANIZER and Chairman of the circuit:

Association of Photographers of Georgia (OM Georgia)
Ms Nino Mghebrishvili – FIAP liaison officer, EFIAP, QPSA, GPU CR1
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.fotosalons.net
Registration www.photostock.ge
Address: Varketili 3, 2 micro-district, 2 building, app 63, Tbilisi, 0163, Georgia

Organizations
Association of Photographers of Georgia (OM Georgia)
Cyprus Photographic Society (OM Cyprus)
Association Atelier d' Art Photographique (OM Morocco)

RECOGNITIONS:
FIAP 2023/636-637-638
PSA 2023-569
AAAP: 2023/01
GPU: L230162
PHOTOLIFE 06/2023
APG 06/2023
IAAP 2023/
PPA 2023
IIG 2023-56

FIAP – Federation Internationale de L’art Photographique
PSA – Photographic Society of America
GPU – Global Photographic Union
IAAP – International Art Photographers
APG – Association of Photographers of Georgia (OM Georgia)
CPS - Cyprus Photographic Society (OM Cyprus)
AAAP - Association Atelier d' Art Photographique (OM Morocco)
IIG - India International Group

1st International circuit PHOTO TRIGGER 2023 Georgia, Cyprus and Morocco is recognized by the Association of Photographers of Georgia (OM Georgia), PHOTOLIFE photo club (ILFIAP Georgia), the Cyprus Photographic Society (OM Cyprus), Association Atelier d' Art Photographique (OM Morocco).
Entry is open to photographers all over the world. It will be organized under the approved rules of FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG and IAAP. All acceptances will count for FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG, IAAP and for inclusion in PSA Star Rating and "Who’s Who".

1st International circuit PHOTO TRIGGER 2023 consists of 3 salons:
1st International salon Georgia Photo Trigger 2023
1st International salon Cyprus Photo Trigger 2023
1st International salon Morocco Photo Trigger 2023

2.SECTIONS
There are four digital sections:
a) Open Color (color only) PSA PIDC
b) Open Monochrome (monochrome only) PSA PIDM
c) Photo Travel (color/grayscale monochrome) PSA PTD
d) Nature (color/grayscale monochrome) PSA ND
Each photo can be presented in only one section.

4. CALENDAR
Closing date 10.12.2023
All judging completed by 24.12.2023
Notifications sent by 07.01.2024
Awards mailed by 25.02.2024
On-Line Gallery posted by 24.01.2024
PDF Catalog posted by 24.02.2024
Date(s) of Exhibitions/Public Showings of Projected Images March 2024
Award ceremony with awarded images exhibition – March 2024

All participants will receive individual report card notifications via e-mail. The results of the exhibition
will also will be published on the website http://fotosalons.net/

3. ENTRY FEE
The entry fee for entries are to be paid by following the instructions on the website when filling out the entry form, after the upload of the photos will be finished. Payment should be in accordance with the entry fees stated there. Group discount is also specified. Cheques are not accepted. Entries for which no or insufficient payment has been received will not be judged. No Early Birds fee.
Entry fee is mandatory for all participants.
Entrance fee per person for 3 salons:
1 section - €34
2 sections - €37
3 sections - €40
4 sections - €43
Possible ways of payment – PayPal transfer.
Terms of payment (preferred) – PayPal: [email protected] (paypal.me/photosalons). Other payment methods Money Gram/Western Union are allowed. For another way for payment please contact us by email: [email protected].
Group discounts are available:
10 members - 10%
15 members - 15%
20 members – 20%
25 members – 25%
Payment comments: please write the full name of the author. Checks are not accepted. The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.
Regardless of the results, the fee is non-refundable.

8. GENERAL CONDITIONS

IMAGE AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS This exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the Sponsor or the Exhibition Organizers, in their reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these Conditions of Entry. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.
Penalties: Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who has put on the PSA Penalties List for Ethics Violation. Entry fees are not refundable in these circumstances

PSA Star Ratings
To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country exactly the same way in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to another country. Using one’s name differently in different exhibition exposes the entrant to the risk that many of their acceptances may not be recognized by PSA Star Ratings.

Image Creation
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.

Certification:
By virtue of submitting an image, the entrant certifies the work as his or her own. Images may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, images or art by others downloaded from the Internet). Aliases are not allowed.


Reproduction
The entrant 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 Photographic Society of America (PSA) may request specific permission from entrants to reproduce entered images in its educational materials. The terms of that permission will be mutually agreed between the entrant and PSA except in the circumstances where the entered image is found to breach the PSA Ethics Policy. In those circumstances the image may be reproduced by PSA, without the entrant’s further permission, for educational purposes to illustrate serious exhibition rule violations. For those reproductions, the entrant’s name will be withheld.
Entries will not be accepted from entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced in materials related to the exhibition.” The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright

Alteration and Computer Generation Subject to Divisional restrictions (particularly Nature, Photo Travel, and Photojournalism) images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the entrant; adjustments to enhance images or creatively modify images are allowed providing the underlying photograph is retained in a way that is obvious to the viewer. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer, and must be the sole work of the entrant
Re-use of accepted images: Any image that has been accepted in this exhibition, past or present, may not be entered again in the same Division Star Ratings Class in any future instances of this exhibition. It may, of course, be entered in any other PSA recognised exhibitions but must always have the same title. Re-titling in another language is not allowed.
Entry: An Entry consists of, up to and including, four (4) images entered by a single entrant into the same Section. An entrant may only enter a specific Section once. Entrants may not enter identical or similar images into the same section or different sections of the same exhibition.
Titles:
Each image must have a unique title that is a description of the image. That unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an identical Image into any and all PSA-Recognized exhibitions. Titles must be 35 characters or fewer. No titles may be visible to the judges, and nothing in the image may identify the entrant. Titles may not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames such as IMG 471). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; or include words such as “untitled” or “no title”. Titles may not consist solely of numbers unless those numbers are prominently contained within the image, such as a contestant number in a race.
Color and Monochrome:
Color and Monochrome images from the same capture that share substantial pictorial content in common will be considered the same image and must be given the same title.

9. ENTRY FORM
Authors submit photos online on www.fotosalons.net. Each entry-form must be written only in English. If any problems are unresolved during online registration, entrants can send the registration form with competitive images via email: [email protected]

10. PHOTOGRAPHS
Photos must be in JPG file format, Entries size requirements: The maximum sizes of image 1920X1080 pixels (for horizontal side 1920, for vertical side 1080). Max. file size 2 MB. Oversized images will be
rejected, and will have to be resubmitted. Image titles should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue. Only English letters (a-z) are allowed. An entrant's four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging for all sections. The images received from entrants will be judged at 100% of the maximum permitted pixel size. Digital images must not be altered, including resizing, by the Exhibition before judging.

11. ORGANISATION
The Exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the PSA and FIAP
An entrant’s images will not be presented to the judges consecutively. An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section. Distribution of images will be in the same round order as submitted by the entrant. An image may be entered in only one section. At no stage will a judge be able to view all the entrant’s images together.


12. JUDGING METHOD
The judging will be conducted by remote on-line. The judges will be using color-calibrated monitors. Judges will be using equipment capable of displaying images a 100% of the image resolution. All the judges will meet via video link to allocate the awards.

5. JUDGING
The judges will evaluate all 4 sections: Open Color, Open Monochrome, Photo Travel, Nature

1st International salon Georgia Trigger 2023
Lewis Ka Yin - FPSA, GMPSA/G, EFIAP/p, HonEFIAP (Hong Kong)
Amal Alameer – EFIAP/S, MPSA, BPSA, GPU.VIP5, GPU.CR4, GPU.zeus (Saudi Arabia)
- EFIAP, GPU Cr2, QPSA (Greece)
Lorenzo Di Candia - EFIAP/d1 EPSA CR3 ZEUS (Italy)

1st International salon Cyprus Trigger 2023
Constantinos Charalambous – (Cyprus)
Minh Nguyen, EFIAP/b MPSA (USA)
Kakha Pkhakadze -AFIAP (Georgia)

1st International salon Morocco Trigger 2023
Nassim Eloud – EFIAP/p, (Cyprus)
Mzia Lekveishvili – MAPG, EP (Georgia)
Mohammed Morchidi – ESFIAP (Morocco)
Reserve members: Zizi Nishnianidze, Sophio Melikidze

The judges of the event will give following awards:
12 x FIAP Gold Medal, 24 x FIAP HM ribbon,
12 x PSA Gold Medal, 24 x PSA HM ribbon,
2 x GPU Gold Medal, 8 x GPU HM ribbon, 1 x GPU Silver Medal, 1 x GPU Bronze Medal,
12 x Salon Gold Medal, 12 x Salon Silver Medal, 12 x Salon Bronze Medal, 121 x Salon diploma,
4 x APG Gold Medal, 4 x APG Silver Medal, 4 x APG Bronze Medal, 39 x APG HM ribbon,
3 x IAAP Silver Medal, 3 x IAAP Bronze Medal, 3 x IAAP Gold Medal,
45 x PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon,
11 x salon diploma,
5 x IIG Gold Medal, 10 x IIG HM ribbon,
4 x CPS Gold Medal, 1 x CPS Silver Medal, 4 x CPS Bronze Medal, 1 x CPS silver Medal, 2 x CPS Silver Medal,
4 x AAAP Gold Medal, 1 x AAAP Silver Medal, 3 x AAAP Bronze Medal, 3 x AAAP Silver Medal, 1 x AAAP Bronze Medal,
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal,
Total 411 awards. The organizer reserves the right to change the number of awards, depending on the total number of the entrants.

14. MONOCHROME DEFINITIONS

FIAP definition of Monochrome
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

PSA Monochrome Definition
An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of grey which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a greyscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A greyscale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi-toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.
Greyscale Monochrome images may be entered for Photo Travel and Nature but toned images are not permitted for these sections.

Editing Guidelines for Nature, Photojournalism and Photo Travel
These sections require images to be truthful records, so there are limits on the amount of manipulation allowed.

Editing Guidelines

Processing or editing must be limited to making the image look as close to the original scene as possible, except that conversion to grayscale monochrome is allowed.
Allowed editing techniques:
• Cropping, straightening and perspective correction.
• Removal or correction of elements added by the camera or lens, such as dust spots, noise, chromatic aberration and lens distortion.
• Global and selective adjustments such as brightness, hue, saturation and contrast to restore the appearance of the original scene.
• Complete conversion of color images to grayscale monochrome.
• Blending of multiple images of the same subject and combining them in camera or with software (exposure blending or focus stacking);
• Image stitching – combining multiple images with overlapping fields of view that are taken consecutively (panoramas);

Editing techniques that are not allowed:
• Removing, adding to, moving or changing any part of an image, except for cropping and straightening.
• Adding a vignette during processing.
• Blurring parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
• Darkening parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene.
• All conversions other than to complete grayscale monochrome.
• Conversion of parts of an image to monochrome, or partial toning, desaturation or over-saturation of color.

For the purpose of this exhibition any border added to a digital file must be a single border of white or grey, no greater than 3-5 pixels in width.

PSA/FIAP Nature Definition
Nature photography records all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This includes all aspects of the physical world, both animate and inanimate, that have not been made or modified by humans.
Nature images must convey the truth of the scene that was photographed. A well-informed person should be able to identify the subject of the image and be satisfied that it has been presented honestly and that no unethical practices have been used to control the subject or capture the image. Images that directly or indirectly show any human activity that threatens the life or welfare of a living organism are not allowed.
The most important part of a Nature image is the nature story it tells. High technical standards are expected and the image must look natural. Adding a vignette or blurring the background during processing is not allowed.
Objects created by humans, and evidence of human activity, are allowed in Nature images only when they are a necessary part of the Nature story.
Photographs of human-created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domesticated animals, human-created hybrid animals and mounted or preserved zoological specimens are not allowed.
Images taken with subjects under controlled conditions, such as zoos, are allowed.
Controlling live subjects by chilling, anaesthetic or any other method of restricting natural movement for the purpose of a photograph is not allowed.
No modification that changes the truth of a Nature image is allowed. Images may be cropped but no other technique that removes, adds or moves any part of the image is allowed.
Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise and lens flare are allowed.
Complete conversion of colour images to greyscale monochrome is allowed. Partial conversion, toning and infrared captures or conversions are not allowed.
Images of the same subject that are combined in-camera or with software by focus stacking or exposure blending are allowed. Multiple images with overlapping fields of view that are taken consecutively and combined in-camera or with software (image stitching) are allowed.
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections

Photo Travel
A Photo Travel image is a portrayal of the real world we live in, as it is found naturally. There are no geographic limitations.
Content guidance:
1. If the image is predominantly or exclusively a land-, sea- or cityscape, these “scapes” must include characteristic, distinctive and recognizable physical features, although it is not necessary that the image identify the exact location;
2. Images that predominantly or exclusively depict people and their activities must illustrate a distinctive culture of a country, region, or continent;
3. Images that predominately or exclusively depict animal populations are allowed, if the animals are in their native environment and are characteristic of that country, region, or continent;
4. Portraits or other close-ups of people or objects, in addition to meeting the above paragraphs as applicable, must include elements depicting some of the surrounding environment to make it obvious that the image was not taken in a studio setting;
5. Images from events or activities arranged for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are NOT allowed.
6. Time exposures are allowed, if they do not dominate the image as a special effect (star trails, for example, are a dominating effect).
7. Highly distorted images such as those produced by fish eye lenses are NOT allowed.

Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections and to the Editing Guidelines for Nature, Photojournalism and Photo Travel

7. CATALOG
Online PDF Catalog downloadable from web site www.photo-salons.net by exhibitors