Photo Contest Guidelines

1. Sun.Star Photo Contest is open to all amateur and professional photographers in the Philippines except direct employees of the company and their relatives to the 3rd degree of consanguinity.

2. To join, applicants are required to fill out entry forms which they can get from any Sun.Star Cebu branch (P. del Rosario St., Fuente or Mandaue Branch)

3. Submitted photos must have a date, name of photographer, brief description and must be identifiably taken in any place of Cebu for the “My Cebu” category.

4. All photos submitted as entries must be taken within the contest dates.

5. Pictures must be colored or black & white.

6. Entry pictures must be in 8×10 prints, free of any watermarks or any markings and submitted with corresponding JPG and RAW/NEF files inside a CD or DVD.

7. Digital manipulation acceptable are adjustments to color, contrast, brightness and sharpness; removal of dust and scratches; cropping; and black and white conversions. Not acceptable are photo composites (combination of two or more photos); the addition, duplication, deletion or moving of objects in the photos; or the use of artistic digital filters and effects.

8. Only two (2) photos per category per month may be submitted free of charge per photographer. A charge of P100/photo will be imposed for additional entries up to a maximum of ten additional entries per category per month.

9. Photos submitted must have been unpublished and should not have been posted in any website or social networking sites.

10. Judging of monthly entries will be based on entry number and not by photographer’s name.

11.Two entries per category will be chosen as winners every month and these will qualify for the grand finals on October 2009.

12. Entries per month must be submitted on or before the following dates: May 29, June 30, July 31, August 28 and September 30, 2009. Winning entries every month will be announced in the newspaper. None-winning entries for the month will not qualify for the next month’s judging.

13. The criteria for judging are on image quality (sharpness, exposure, and lighting), composition and relevance to the theme.

14. A special prize will be given to an entry that may be chosen as the cover of  the Cebu Yearbook 2010 issue.

15. All winning entries will be published in the Cebu Yearbook 2010 issue.

16. The decision of the Board of Judges shall be final.

17. All entries judged as finalists and winners shall become the property of Sun.Star and cannot be reproduced or reprinted by any other publication without the permission of Sun.Star Cebu. Photographers will be given photo credits every time the picture will be published.

Get entry forms at the following locations:

Sun Star P. del Rosario
Sun Star Fuente
Sun Star Mandaue
Photoshop Baseline Center

Submit entries at the following locations:

Sun Star P. del Rosario
Photoshop Baseline Center