The International exhibiton of art photography – 5.MOF 2016 is exhibition of art photography
* organised by MOF-Mersin Olba Photographic Association; MOF from Mersin - Turkey
* This contest is organised by Mersin Olba Photographic Economic Administrator-Operation.

The Int. exhibiton of art photography - MOF 2016 is divided in 6 sections, 2 PRINT & 4 DIGITAL
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 1- DIGITAL: NATURE (Monochrome & Color) <b>DN</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 2- DIGITAL: OPEN (Color) <b>DC</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 3- DIGITAL: OPEN (Monochrome) <b>DM</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 4- DIGITAL: SHOPPING (Monochrome &Color) <b>DS</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 5- PRINT: OPEN (Color) <b>PC</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 6- PRINT: OPEN (Monochrome) <b>PM</b>

<b>Starting date:</b> 15.04.2016
<b>Closing date:</b> 25.09.2016 23:59 Turkey Time
<b>Judging date:</b> 01-02.10.2016
<b>Notification:</b> 10.10.2016
<b>Exhibition and public show:</b> 22th November 2016 OLBA EVİ
SEND of the catalogues and awards to the authors by end of the 25 December 2016.

GENERAL:The entry fee is mandatory for all participants and € 25/30 USD for 4 categories. All participants must pay the entry fee.
If the participants want to enter 6 categories they will pay € 30/35USD .
Turkish participants will pay 70 TL for 4 categories. Ifthey want toenter 5 or 6 categories will pay 90 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:
our paypal account is [email protected]
You can participate the contest by group-photography club or group members. if you contact the salon chairman you will take discount 10% (for 10 person)
Automatic Discount per member of sisters Associations;
If you are a member of Sille Sanat Sarayı you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Afyon Frig Association you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Gifsad Gaziantep you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Shangtuf - China you have %10 discount
If youare a member of Taicang Photography Association – China you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Kıfsad Photography Association - Cyprus you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Photo Club of Kumanovo - Macedonia you have %10 discount
If you are a member of Mersin Olba Association you have %50 discount
You can also pay to this bank account;
Mersin Olba Photographic Association
Mersin Olba Photographic Economic Administrator-Operation
Türkiye İş Bankası Eğriçam Şubesi
IBAN No: TR79 0006 4000 0016 6130 053604
Paypal: [email protected]
The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.

5th MOF 2016 “İbrahim Zaman” salon 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 be taken into account.
<b>DIGITAL SECTIONS:Photographs are sent in digital form, as a picture file with dimension shorter side maximum 1920 pixels horizontal in dimension and maximum 1080 pixel vertical in JPEG format at 300 dpi resolution ,7-12 quality and photo size not lower than 1 Mb, greater than 4 Mb. We will use Epson Full HD high resulation projector for the presentation of judge.
Open categories are real open. If you prefer you can use Photoshop and manipulation. If you want put your creative photos. (except to Nature and Shopping )
PRINT SECTIONS: Participants must print the photographs on photo paper and sent them by post or courier .You must connect to our web address www.olbafotograf.com 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 10 euros is mandatory. Prints will not be returned if return fee is not paid.
Authors can send self-made prints with long size maximum can be 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 print photos can damaged the package, Mersin Olba do not accept liability for problems.
Open categories are real open. If you prefer you can use Photoshop and manipulation. If you want upload your creative photos.
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.
Pls send to the address your print photos;
ToAttn: Selma Demirkol
Eğriçam mahallesi 2206 sokak Argun Marina Evleri A Blok kat:6 Daire:11 Yenişehir-33160 Mersin/TURKEY </b>
•All participants must enter the www.olbafotograf.com and contest.olbafotograf.com join the contest.The ymust accept the Conditions of Participation(entry rules). Participants must to check the accept box. Then check the accept box,Participants are deemed to have accepted all the terms.
•If you have any problem when upload\submit the Photos (over the Internet or user-induced errors occur in the system in the event) pls contact [email protected] [email protected] address the problem will be fixed as soon as possible. This address is only used if the photo upload problems experienced moments will ocur.You must not send the photographs this e-mail.If you send your photos to this e-mail,we do not accept.
•Awarded and the acceptances photos are exhibit in www.olbafotograf.com will be exhibited in the area to be determined. Also awarded the prize, honorable mentions and special awards of thephotos will be published on the site and TFSF broadcast 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 is withdrawn degree, does not matter other than works, degrees and awards is left blank.
•Participators sent a photo, on the work not belong to him even though as his show and evaluation board intended to deceive any intervention and changes to the participants infraction process is applied, and this person contest participation TFSF Competition Policy in accordance with the one-year period is restricted, rule violation again if the competitor TFSF approved will be banned indefinitely from competition. This situation is also reported to FIAP.
The photographers are not allowed to participate the MOF 2016 photo contest in theRed List of TFSF and FIAP .
•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 Mersin Olba Photographic Association (MOF) will not be responsible.
• Jury committee who attended the photo does not have to choose prizes and honorable mentions. This decision belongs entirely jury.
• If thephoto shave previously won thecompetition of MOF they will not participateto MOF 2016 competition.
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 thee vent, 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.

To participate at MOF 2016 “*İBRAHİM ZAMAN” participants will apply with both black & white or color works. Maximum allowed number of works in section, category, or class is four (4). No title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image.
Entry form and contact information must be written in one of the official IAAP, FIAP or PSA languages. Each image must have a unique title. Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture file names or titles consisting of only numbers. No file naming is needed.
Once an image has been accepted in a PSA Recognized exhibition, that same image, or a like “in camera” or a “reproduction” duplicate of that image may not be re-entered in any section of the same Division Star Ratings class in that exhibition regardless of media, format, or title.
An entrant’s images will be presented to the judges consecutively. Minimum 25% acceptance rate is guaranteed.

<b>Marina Krstic, Photographer - Macedonia
Ömer Serkan Bakır, Editor of Fotograf Magazine - Turkey
A.Hikmet Avci, EFIAP, GPU CR1-Aphrodite ,SSS/b - Turkey</b>

Alternates;
<b>Mustafa Eser, EFIAP, Hon SSS
Süleyman Uçan, Olba Member
PAFT Representative: Emel Karakozak</b>

At Int. exhibiton of art photography - MOF 2016 there will be awarded these medals:
1x FIAP BLUE BADGE-BEST OF MOF 2016
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 MOF Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal, 36 ribbons.
1x TFSF Special award in Nature Category
1x İbrahim Zaman Special Award in B & W Print Category
1x Forum AVM Special Award in Shopping Category
1x Sille Art Galery Special Award in Digital Open Color Category

<b>Acceptances will be no less than 8% and no more than 25% in each category</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>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. Hulki Muradi
<b>e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]</b>
GSM:00 90 532 4114783
<b>Organisation Commitee:</b>
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Sema Demirkol AFIAP, GPU CR1,GPU Aphrodite
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Selma Demirkol AFIAP, GPU CR1,GPU Aphrodite
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Yusuf Çakır
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Musa Dalmaz