best photograph COMPETITION

Submission Checklist

  • Submit before midnight 30th of September 2024.

  • Submission must satisfy rules highlighted below

  • Paypal payment of €30 made to paypal.me/irishsurffilmfest.

  • Submissions sent to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com via wetransfer or similar.

  • Email payment confirmation made to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com.

  • By submitting to the festival the applicant understands that he/she/they has a legal right to submit the film including ensuring all clearances have been obtained. By submitting to the festival the applicant agrees to the rules and terms.

Rules

1. The competition for best photograph will be based on a theme to be announced. The theme will be open to interpretation.

2. Only 1 photograph may be submitted per photographer.

3. The photograph must be submitted (see submission guidelines) to irishsurffilmfest@gmail.com.

4. Photographs should be taken from (and including) the 1st of November 2023 to the 30th of September 2024.

5. 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. Colour images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Video frame grabs should not be entered.

6. Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images or composites shall not be entered.

7. Entrants may be asked to provide evidence that the photograph was taken within the timeframe outlined in rule 4 above, along with evidence that the submission adhered to rules 5 and 6 above.

8. Submitted photographs should be at a resolution large enough to print at A3 size. Image file type must be .jpg.

9. A submission fee of €30 will be charged per photograph submitted, made payable via the paypal link: paypal.me/irishsurffilmfest.

10. The finalists will receive two free tickets to the event (main event & after party).

11. The finalists (as decided by the judge(s)) will have an opportunity/ would be expected to display their photographs in print at the festival. Finalists will have a chance to sell prints at the event if they wish.

12. Entrants agree that their work may be published on ISFF socials with due credit.

13. A cash prize of €1000 will be awarded to the best photograph, as decided by the judge(s)