FPPF Project Director Lito Beltran has announced the launch of a photo competition with P25,000 as top prize. The photo contest, under the auspices of the Federation of Philippine Photographers Foundation (FPPF) and the Intramuros Administration (IA), is in celebration of Philippine Heritage Month.
Beltran said the subject of the competition is Intramuros. Entries must contain in part or in whole landmarks or scenes that depict Intramuros. The photos must contain something to suggest the image was taken inside Intramuros. The subject can be people, landscape, ruins – practically anything about Intramuros.
The competition will award the following prizes:
- P25,000 – First Prize
- P15,000 – Second Prize
- P10,000 – Third Prize
Prizes in kind will also be awarded to winners in the 4th to 10th Places.
The photo contest is open to everybody, amateur and professional photographers.
Deadline for submission of entries is on March 28, 2010. Awarding of prizes will be on April 30, 2010.
Entries must be 8” x 10” prints in color, limiting the borders – if any – to 1 inch all around. Digital photo manipulation is not allowed. You can’t clone, use layers, saturate/desaturate, or any or those fancy Photoshop or Lightroom techniques. But you may dodge, burn or crop. Any creative effects must be done in-camera at the time of exposure – flash fill, light painting, use of filters, etc.
To enter the contest, participants must register because you can’t shoot in Intramuros without a permit. Registration for this contest is free. Once registered, you get an ID which serves as your permit to shoot in the premises of Intramuros. Issuance of IDs will start on February 15 and you can get it from the FPPF offices, 302-Annex, FEMII Bldg., A. Soriano St., Intramuros, Manila.
The contest ID and permit do not give you complete access to all of Intramuros. For example, it could give you free entrance to Fort Santiago but you still cannot shoot inside the Rizal Shrine; museum rules apply here. While you can go and shoot around the streets of Intramuros, it does not give you free access to Casa Manila, for example; you still have to follow their house rules.
The contest ID and permit are available from the FPPF offices only at FEMII Bldg., not from the FPPF Art Chambers inside Fort Santiago.
Fine Print: Copyright to the image inherently belongs to the photographer, but the top 30 prints shall become the property of the organizers, with full rights to reproduce, exhibit or publish the images for promotional purposes only. The organizers may, without paying financial compensation to the photographers, display the prints in a public place of publish the prints for the purpose of promoting the organization’s event or any by-product arising from the photo contest. If any of the photos is published or printed for display, the name of the photographer and FPPF shall always be acknowledged.
For more details, please call Mr. Lito Beltran at tells. 524-7576 or 528-0371 or email him at pablobeltran39@gmail.com.
Commented: April 28, 2010 at 12:23 am
yes sir chris, do u have any updates on the contest?
Commented: April 24, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Sir,
Any update about our contest? thanks.
Commented: March 29, 2010 at 2:28 am
Phew… Thanks sir Chris.
Commented: March 28, 2010 at 12:23 pm
what time is the deadline for submission today? thanks
Commented: March 27, 2010 at 9:10 pm
@cathy: ok, cang, huwaton nako ang imong entries
Commented: March 27, 2010 at 10:02 am
hi sir chris,
will be sending my entries today to your office at femii bldg via LBC….hope you will be able to get it on time since deadline will be tomorrow na…i wlll just address it to you sir…thanks!
Commented: March 27, 2010 at 4:25 am
@alex: do it again, alex, and this time brighten your photo a little more; your monitor may just be a bit too bright. also, remember that the monitor glows while the printed picture does not and that could explain the difference in tonality. print again.
Commented: March 27, 2010 at 2:25 am
Sir,
I’m having troubles with my prints. I told the lab to print the pictures as is and came out darker. Can they adjust their printer settings to get the real exposures? or this will be a disqualification?
Commented: March 26, 2010 at 5:07 pm
@paul gotiong: it’s here. now, paul. we got your entries via LBC.
Commented: March 25, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Is the registration still open until tomorrow morning? Will be there before lunch hopefully. May lunch break ba? Haha.
Commented: March 25, 2010 at 11:16 am
Thanks sir. Hope you got it. sent it 2 days ago…
Yup.only dodge and burn and crop in photoshop.
Commented: March 24, 2010 at 9:52 pm
@paul: will check with secretariat, paul, if they have received your entries via LBC. yes, do all adjustments in camera, then minimal dodge and burn in photoshop. don’t touch levels & curves and saturation.
Commented: March 24, 2010 at 6:02 pm
i’ll register tomorrow morning
Commented: March 24, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Hi Sirs,
i sent my entries via LBC and placed a note there if once received to email or text… Was it recieved?
Also, sir Chris diba pwede adjustments in-camera lahat? Like changing camera profiles for canon systems for example? Tapos dodge/burn and crop lang sa photoshop?
Commented: March 24, 2010 at 12:30 am
@aleen: no, please don’t do that. just a little dodging and burning is allowed. saturation and contrast will fall under image manipulation, and we don’t allow that. please take a final picture as much as possible in-camera. and please keep your original digital file, just in case.
Commented: March 23, 2010 at 6:16 pm
ive already printed some of my photoshoots for submission in the contest, just want to ask if it is ok to adjust some settings in the camera like saturation, contrast etc. before the exposure? tenks
Commented: March 21, 2010 at 11:29 pm
@maann: just go straight to the fppf office, maann, and you’ll get your permits.
Commented: March 21, 2010 at 9:50 am
Hi sir! me and my boyfriend are members of imahe. we are planning to go around intramuros today to take some shots. will it be possible to get two permits for us today? We would really appreciate it! Thank you so much!
Commented: March 20, 2010 at 9:13 am
@ecelest: yes, you can do that. send your IDs.
Commented: March 19, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Hi – I’m a member of a photography club in our company. Many of my colleagues would want to join these contest, same question with ‘shei’. Would you let someone pick-up the permit for us?
Commented: March 15, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Hi… me and my friends are very much interested with the said contest… We would like to know if we could let someone pick up our permits (he/she will be bringing the said requirement such as the 1×1 pic an ID)…
Thanks
Commented: March 15, 2010 at 8:25 am
for info to photographers who wish to join the intramuros on-the-spot contest: you may submit your entries personally to the fppf, where you got your IDs, or you may submit them via courier (mail, LBC, messenger, etc.). download the labels/entry forms from this link:
http://photoworldmanila.ipower.com/online_images/Form.doc
and attach a label, duly filled out, at the back of your entries. fill out all info except the entry number. then send your entries to:
Intramuros is Forever
FPPF 302-Annex, FEMII Bldg.
Aduana St., Intramuros, Manila
Commented: March 14, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Thanks Sir Chris! I think we all have to stick talaga s essence ng on-d-spot. And you’ve said it clear enough “pagandahan na lang dapat ng litrato straight from the camera”.
More power to you and to FPPF!
Commented: March 14, 2010 at 6:09 am
@law malay: you are right, law, that is why we really want to prohibit digital image manipulation altogether. i asked ka lito about levels and contrast and he said no, that is not allowed. pagandahan na lang dapat ng litrato straight from the camera.
Commented: March 13, 2010 at 2:06 am
Lightening and darkening of images and contrast adjustments, are these considered as “not-allowed” digital manipulation?
Commented: March 12, 2010 at 11:59 am
Thank you sir.
Commented: March 11, 2010 at 5:46 pm
then you will be with icky, cathy! nice to see you here in manila! just go to the fppf offices at 302-annex, femii bldg., aduana st., intramuros, manila and ask for karen. you may submit your entries there with her. see you all here!
Commented: March 11, 2010 at 5:44 pm
@paul: if you were given the permit to shoot on feb 12, then those pics are valid. no image manipulation, that’s right. and no limit to entries, 8×10 inches, submit to FPPF, yes.
Commented: March 11, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Hi,
I am from Cebu and an alumni of FPPF too. I just want to clarify. So no PP should be made and no limit of entries. Just 8×10 prints in a sealed envelope with your name addressed to FPPF.
Lastly, our group from Cebu went to manila Feb.12 and was able to register and shoot the day only since it was the only time we had. Does that mean we are disqualified? Since i read from Sri chris that the shooting period is for feb15 onwards only? but we were already registered and given permit to shoot for the contest.
Let me know since we are already submitting our entries to manila. Hoping for an email from you. Thanks
Commented: March 11, 2010 at 10:09 am
Hi sir! I am cathy angeles from Cebu, one of your students during the basic and advanced workshop. We are going to Manila on March 21 (sunday) and we want to register for the Intramuros Photo COntest. How do we go about it? Thanks!