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You should be proud of being a contest winner in Photos-of-the-Year.com because it is set to reflect honestly the marketing value (in favorite with most people, and thus more likely for sale). We also try to make our contests arranged in fairest possible manner and generate fun and value to everyone involved.
With these base principles, the following are approaches adapted:
- Open voting, there is no fixed judgment panel, contest result reflects honestly the preference from the majority
- Inter-active contest, to become eligible to a contest, all candidates are required to vote at least other 30 photos in the contest
- Photos are ranked by summing up instead of averaging, it reflects the value in both quantity and quality aspects
- Gallery are running in anonymity, photos are exposured equally to all voters by rotation in a random order
- Logistic filter to make our contests for real enthusiast and fun.
Join us and take a real challenge!
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Submission Procedures
Select a critique or submission gallery from list, enter the image and photography information in the next upload form. To learn more about the photography contest in Photos-of-the-Year.com, also refer to the Copyright & Rules, Voting Guide, Princple & Approach and Proven Success.
Copyright and Content
Materials that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violate of any laws is strictly prohibited.
Photos-of-the-Year.com respects the original copyright and intellectual property. The art work should be based on an original photograph taken by the artist using a camera. Use a photo from others without permission are not allowed and will lead to removal of the photo and termination of membership.
Member retains full copyright of the submitted photography. Including names, watermarks, or copyright information is allowed for protecting artist's photo submitted to contests, while most reviewers prefer that they be discreet so as to not interfere with the picture overall, it is ultimately the artist's decision.
It is important notice that, however, the original source image file should not be submitted to the site, there is no guaranty on the safety of all submitted photographs on Photos-of-the-Year.com.
Rules to Follow
Members are invited to submit up to 2 photography work to each active contest gallery, each contest gallery will be limited to 120 submissions (please see voting rules for min. number of comments for entires to qualify for contest) and as many as photography work to the Critique Gallery within a ratio of 1:10 for submission vs comment (in the critique gallery). There is no limitation set for digital post-processing effects (unless specified for a particular contest or gallery), if you have added effects other than exposure/ contrast correction, colors correction, sharpness, resize and cropping, please provide a brief description of post-processing effects applied for the submitted photography.
Photographer / Stock Photo Gallery
Photos-of-the-Year.com provides free 100MB photo gallery hosting for all official registered members to facilitate the share of member's personal photography on the Internet. The most importance, it may also help to generate potential photo sales. This is a free service, a member may submit up to 100 MB photo image to the Stock Photo Gallery. Member has the full copyrights of the submitted photography.
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Voting Guide
Photography should be judged on adherence to the current challenge topic.
All members are invited to make vote, winning photos should best fit the taste of the majority.
Photography equipment used should not be a criterion for rating a photo.
Evaluate the photo in various aspects, set a consistent norm and give your rating as fair as possible.
If a rating below average is given, please also provide a comment on the reason and how it could be improved.
Enjoy the contest and gain invaluable photography sense by exposuring yourself to the gallery.
Rating Scale
1 - 4 Significant change recommended
5 - 6 Some change recommended
7 - 8 Recognized
9 - 10 Honorable
Rules to Follow
A member is required to make a minimum of 30 votes to each voting gallery in which that member participates. In contests where less then 30 entries have been submitted, you will be required to vote on all entries.
NOTE: Remember, while 30 votes are required, you may vote more than that and are encouraged to do so. This will ensure the minimum 30 votes is maintained until the end of the voting period, since some members delete their photos. So please be sure to check back near the end of the contest to ensure that you have met your minimum number of votes.
The numbers, such as (3:32), appended to the photo title in a voting gallery indicates the number of submissions and votes the member had been made for the contest gallery he joined.
Value Comment
If the member find a constructive comment and making sense for improving the photography, he may mark it as a value comment by clicking the value buttun at the bottom-right and the value comment will advance the Photography Strength for the voter.
Voting Procedures
Select a voting gallery from the list.
Photos marked "not rated" means they have not been rated.
Select a photography for voting.
Enter the comment and rating for the photo.
Principle & Approach
We believe the best photography should always meet the taste of the majority independent from the voters. Photos-of-the-Year.com adopts open voting approach for the selection of the best photos - all photos will be equally exposures to all official members during the voting process.
The voting result will honestly reflect both the taste by the majority. The result given by the open arrangement implies that the winning photos will always have the best marketing value.
The best photographers should be able not only to create good photos on his own but also to give constructive comments for improving photography. Photos-of-the-Year.com has implemented a dynamic and comprehensive performance indicator - Photography Strength (PS) for the evaluation of the ability of a photographer in creating value photos and giving comments.
Photography Awards
Photos-of-the-Year.com awards Photos of the Year and Photographers of the Year. Photography contest will be held annually to give award to the best 12 winning photos as titled Photos of the Year (POTY). Photographers of the Year will be awarded at each year-end to the best 12 photographers demonstrated the best photography ability in the year.
Photography awards will be also given to monthly and bi-weekly contests in different gallery sections.
Prizes Awarded
Achievement certificates will be issued for Photos of the Year and Photographers of the Year as well as winners for the monthly contests. Prizes donated by sponsors will be also awarded according to the agreed arrangement.
Proven Success
Discover the Value of Your Photographs - by Robert Och
That means as a winner, you may not have the most technically perfect photo, but more people would buy your photo than the others in the contest. I would rather have a photo that sells more often, than one that is technically perfect that collects dust.......
..... the voting is handled by the majority of members. Members from all walks of life and from all over the world, with one common interest (they love photography). What does that mean to you? By having many members from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds you (as an artist) get a real life critique of your work that reflects the tastes of the masses.
Be a Winner on Photos-of-the-Year.com - by Robert Och
Photos-of-the-Year.com in my opinion has a wonderful and interesting approach to Photography. Winning photos are based on what most people find appealing. Pulling from a world wide base of members, there is no better way to see what appeals to the masses, than on this site......
..... most importantly remember this, the only real winner on Photos-of-the-Year.com is the person that improves the most in their art (you only compete against yourself) and enjoy the journey. I will leave you with this thought. "Your best photo should be your next photo".
Success Pointers for Winning Photo - by Linda Muir
Since I registered as a member on POTY in July of 2003, I have advanced beyond my wildest dreams in the digital photo world. A lot of my first photos that I entered, never really got good ratings, to no ratings at all. But over time, I looked, listened, observed winning photos and practiced in all the areas in which I was lacking, and believe me there were lots. Below, I have listed some of the things I have learned here on this forum and I would like to pass some of them on to you, and hope you fine them useful.......
..... the most important things I can suggest, is to practice, observe, pay attention to constructive criticism, read your camera's manual and read anything else you can get a hold of ! Photography is a practiced skill! If you wish to improve, and strive for that winning photo, you have to make the time and the effort.
...... more member's review.
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