THE CATEGORIES
PPC provides a diverse range of competition categories designed to refine your expertise or enhance your skills in specific areas. Each participate is encouraged to explore the listed categories and elevate your creativity and proficiency to new heights.
Portrait Categories
Child Portrait
Portraiture of a child or children from birth to age 16.
High School Senior Portrait
This category portrays a male or female of high school age.
General Portrait
This category includes groups of 3, couples, adults (18 and older),
relationships, models, and fashion portraits, tastefully artistic nude/figure studies (discretion of
the PPC Image Committee). In studio, outdoors or location portraits accepted.
Families/Groups
Large families, reunion groups, conference attendee groups,
business/office groups, groups larger than 3 people accepted.
Illustrative Categories
Landscape/Nature
This category shares joy and adventures while expressing a sense
of place. Macro & close-up, flowers, seascapes, mountainscapes, cityscapes, urban landscapes,
sunrises, and sunsets with or without people should be entered here. Background replacement is NOT allowed. Painted images MUST BE ENTERED into the Painterly category.
Illustrative
This category covers image content including abstract, intentional camera movement (ICM), non-definable image content or any other imagery that does not qualify for
another or more appropriate category.
Commercial
This category is used when images are created for a commercial client to
advertise a product and promote a brand or company. Includes residential, commercial interiors or exteriors or other commercial or industrial environment.
Drone/Ariel
This category contains any imagery created by a drone or taken from any
airborne vehicle, (e. g. plane, helicopter, hot air balloon, etc. Not from an elevated location such as a building, rooftop or high landscape overlook.)
Animal Categories
Animal Portrait
This category would include animal(s) portraits using structured/controlled lighting in a studio, home, business or other controlled outdoor environment, where the owner or photographer controls the animal(s).
Wildlife
This category includes wild animals in an uncontrolled lighting environment, animals in their environment, zoo animals, farm animals, sea creatures, birds in their environment.
Wedding Categories
Wedding
Individual images that portray a subject or subjects from all aspects of a real wedding including traditional portraits, candid, or detail work.
Wedding Album
Multiple images combined into a digital album collection exclusively showcasing a specific wedding. Minimum 20 images (10 pages)
Artist Categories
These 3 categories must include thumbnails of each original image plus additional added images used to create the overall composite.
Artist
A conceptual image altered or manipulated from its original condition. Creations can be a subtle application using post-processing techniques, or a dramatic combination of details to suggest a larger story. The artist is responsible for the idea behind the image and the work done to create the finished art piece. Must display all thumbnails on the finished competition piece of each image used to create the completed composite.
Painterly
This category includes all painted imagery of any subject matter from a single (1) original image, painted to any extent that you desire. May not contain any added imagery of any kind. You may replace a sky or background but no other added components are allowed. Compositing from multiple images or files is NOT allowed in this category. A thumbnail of your original RAW or jpg file(s) must be displayed as a reference guide on the entry itself.
Restoration
Must display the original image source and the finished restored version. Displayed original must be of similar size to finished image for judges’ comparison.
Other Categories
Album
Consists of portrait or story-telling themes. Content may include Weddings, Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, birthday or anniversary parties, celebrating a unique event, collections of similarly themed imagery. Minimum 20 images.
Reportage/Photojournalism
Images that illustrate an actual public or nonpublic event, life, an area of human interest, telling news that have meaning on the context or record of events, high impact and/or lasting emotional response. Images that illustrate sporting events are included in this category. ONLY basic color and brightness adjustments, cropping, dodging, and burning are allowed. Only single-capture images will be accepted. Composite and multiple exposure images will not be accepted. The original captured image, RAW or jpg, must be available if requested by the competition committee.
FAQ'S
What size should my file be to upload for entry?
It should be sRGB color space, a jpg, and sized at 4000 pixels at the widest side of your image at 300DPI. On saving the file the compression should be at 10 to begin with. If your file is still above 3.5MB reduce the compression number to 9 or 8 …