Deadline:
October 26, 2011

Entry Fee:
50¢ per entry for ATPI members

$1 per entry for non-ATPI members

Students may not enter more than three images into any Category. Students should edit entries carefully.

Digital Categories:
Thematic (Blue)
Architecture-Cityscape
Landscape
Nature
Informal-Environmental Portrait
Studio Portrait
Advertising
Animal
Time Exposure
Sports-Action
Advertising
Still Life
Student Life
News
Fashion
Open
Cell-Smartphone Image
New Media Projects*
Documentary-Travel Portfolio*
Digitally Constructed Single Images*

Print Categories:
Black and White Darkroom Print
Alternative Processes

Video Categories:
Broadcast News Video
Music Video
Advertisement/PSA Video
Short Film

Divisions:
Beginning/Middle School - Advanced - Faculty

Students must be currently enrolled in the 2011-12 school year to compete. Images must be entered in the advanced division if the high school student was enrolled in a photography class prior to this school year. Black and white and color images will be judged together.

Students are encouraged to not enter the same image in multiple categories. The judges tend to judge these photos more harshly.

Print categories should be matted or mounted on 11x14 black or white mount board. No poster board.

Digital entries must be submitted on CD in JPG format. All entries from a school should be on a single CD or DVD with folders for each category. Inside each category folder should be a folder of images for Beginning entries and a folder of images for Advanced entries. Division, Category, Student name, school name, school city, and teacher name must be typed into the metadata caption/description field in the File Info window in Photoshop. All images should be in JPEG format, saved at maximum quality, with a maximum dimension (width or height) of 2500 pixels. Full instructions for image size and file info found here.

*Digitally constructed single images means that images have been constructed by use of computer software. These images must have photographic elements (such as originally from a digital camera, film image, scanned materials, still-video frame, etc.); entries that are composed solely of graphic-arts elements are not eligible. All components of the entry must be the original work of the student. New media projects can include electronic portfolios, video podcasts, animation sequences, multimedia, Web sites, etc. The Documentary/Travel Portfolio category is a five-image portfolio built around a single theme - either a location or a documentary/photojournalistic story. These entries should have 1-5 in the file name and count as a single entry.

Video entries must be submitted on CD or DVD. Each entry must be on a separate disc.

Entry forms and shipping information available in the PDF file.

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