~Special Moments Captured~

SAMA's 2014 photography competition was an overwhelming success. We were inundated with well captured pictures that spoke to the following themes: Work Environment, Emotions and Community Health. We hope that this year will be no different.

We asked members to take pictures that provide a window into the time they spend saving lives in hospitals or in private practice, especially exceptional moments and experiences they share with their patients, fellow doctors and nurses. This year, we are changing the Categories.

The South African Medical Association (SAMA) is pleased to announce that entries for the association's annual Photography Competition are now open to all SAMA members.

This is a long standing initiative of SAMA's which has been warmly received by its members.

We anticipate drawing an even bigger number of entries this year than in years past. We are also happy to announce that some of the entries we receive will be auctioned, with the returns going to two charity organisations.

The competition's themes are:

• Culture
• Emotions
• Nature

All entries will be displayed at the 2016 SAMA Conference, while the winning entries will be published in the SAMA Insider following the conference. A panel of experienced judges have been selected to judge the entries.

The competition is open to all SAMA members in good standing.

The deadline for all entries is 31 August 2016. Winners will be announced in October at the SAMA Conference.

Competition Details:

• Entry categories: Culture, Emotions or Nature
• Prizes will be awarded for category winners and additionally, Judges favourite picture
• Entrant must have taken the picture and hold the copyright.
• As only digital prints are submitted, access to the original file may be required for winning entries.
• SAMA reserves the right to print, publish and exhibit any work submitted free of charge, but picture copyright will otherwise remain with the photographer.
• Photography credits will be acknowledged.

Competition Closing Date:

• 31 August 2016

Entry Fees:

• R90.00 per entry per category.
• R40.00 per entry per category for students and interns.
• Enter as many pictures as you want per category, but remember that fees are per picture.

• Emotions
• Nature
• Culture

Winners will be selected as per category:

• Emotions - R2000
• Nature - R2000
• Culture - R2000

Entry Rules:

• Digital entries only. No email entries will be accepted.
• Entries must be submitted via the SAMA photography competition website: www.samedical.co.za/photography
• Images can be a landscape or portrait format.
• Images can be black and white or colour.

Competition Rules:

• SAMA organises this photography competition. Entries are invited from all SAMA members.
• The original file/s of your digital entry may be necessary for winning entries.
• An entry fee of R90.00 per entry per category is payable, or R40.00 per entry per category for interns and students.
• Authors may not enter the same/similar image in different categories. Such entries will be disqualified.
• All images must be original and must not incorporate elements produced by anyone else.
• By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrants certify the work as their own.
• Submission of entries signifies acceptance of the conditions of entry and the competition rules.
• The entrant must be the sole author and owner of the copyright of all entries.
• Judges appointed by the organisers will choose the winning entries. The organisers' decision on all matters relating to the competition will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Should the quality of entries fall below the accepted standard, the organisers reserve the right not to award prizes.
• Every effort will be made to notify winners of the competition
• The organisers reserve the right to free reproduction and exhibition, in any media, of the competition entries. Photographer credits will be acknowledged.
• The digital manipulation of images will not be allowed. Please see below for guidelines to what is permitted.

Digital:

• Images must be converted to a sRGB colour profile, as it cannot be guaranteed that images, which have a different colour space, will display correctly when judged.
• Images must be resized so that the horizontal axis will not exceed 900 pixels and the vertical axis will not exceed 900 pixels
• Maximum jpeg size should not exceed 10mb and not be less than 2mb.
• The inclusion of a frame/border is permissible as long as it stays within the above-mentioned size restrictions. No wording or text is allowed on the image unless it is an integral part of the image.
• All entries must be clearly marked:
  Category number, Author; Title. e.g.: 2_Gert Steyn_Dancing.
• The following data must be supplied on the entry form:
  Camera used, Exposure (Aperture, Shutterspeed, ISO), focal length and a short description of the image.

Digital Manipulation:

• The following will not be considered as digital manipulation:
  1. Removal of dust and scratch marks on scanned images or spots from dust particles on the CCD/CMOS sensors of digital cameras.
  2. Specific lens/sensor aberrations such as chromatic aberrations and purple
  3. Fringing may also be corrected/removed.
  4. Overall adjustments to exposure and contrast. Selective adjustments are not allowed in the category - Nature.
  5. Adjustments/corrections of colour balance. This can either be done by selecting an appropriate white balance during the conversion in the RAW images, or by adding/subtracting colours in the photo editing software.
  6. The post capture application of digital colour correction filters like warming and cooling filters, similar to the 81 and 82 series of filters, is also allowed.
  7. Application of colour saturation. Non-selective saturation that is applied to the whole image is permissible.
  8. Reduction of digital noise, especially in high ISO images from digital cameras, or film grain in scanned images.
  9. Sharpening the image. All modern sharpening algorithms and techniques such as edge sharpening.
  10. Luminance sharpening and mode sharpening is permissible.
  11. Cropping and re-sizing is permissible.

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Precious Qwabe
012 481 2164
preciousq@samedical.org