Sponsors
DEEP Indonesia 2012
Rules & Guidelines
General Rules
- The DEEP Indonesia competition is open to entrants of all skill levels.
- Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com staff are allowed to enter, however, photo contest staff and judges are not allowed to enter the contest.
- Each individual can only win one prize or prize package. Entrants with multiple winning entries will be given priority in prizes by value.
- Winners will be announced on UnderwaterCompetition.com on March 31, 2012.
- We are adopting the Conservation Rules established by EPIC®. Marine life should never be stressed or endangered for the sake of a photo. Conservation rules will apply to all entries, and decisions will be final.
Entries suspected of exhibiting the following behavior will be disqualified:- Divers visibly damaging the environment (e.g. gear dragging or kicking up sand).
- Animals with signs of stress (e.g. puffed puffers, inking octopus).
- Animals moved to an unnatural environment or risky location.
- Animals being fed (especially with artificial food from divers).
- Marine life being touched (e.g. coral polyps, seahorse tails).
- Divers exhibiting poor buoyancy control
- Category descriptions are available at the home page of each photo competition.
- Additional Rules for Image Entries
- All submitted images must have been taken by the entrant.
- Images that have won or placed in photo contests with winning entries announced before December 1st, 2011, may not be submitted. A winning image is defined as follows:
- any image that has placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any contest that has resulted in prizes worth $100 USD or more.
- any image that has placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a major photography contest (to be determined subjectively by judges).
- any image that has placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any photo of the year-type contest. Photos of the day, week, or month are fine, as long as they have not resulted in prizes worth $100 USD or more.
- any single image that was part of a portfolio, but did not place as a single image, is eligible to be entered.
- Photographers retain all copyrights to their images. Wetpixel.com, DivePhotoGuide.com, and UnderwaterCompetition.com retain the right to publish the contest entries in print or online to congratulate or feature the winners and their respective images, and to promote future events. Winning images will be included in a press release for third party websites and publications in the context of congratulating and/or featuring the winners and winning images, and to promote future competitions. Strict guidelines requiring photo credit and specific one-time press release usage are issued along with the press release.
- All images need to have been taken underwater.
- Entries may have been taken from any camera, film (as scanned slides) or digital.
Photo Submission Guidelines
- Entries must be saved in jpeg format and should be sized to be between 2000 and 6000 pixels in the longest dimension. Please limit your images to a maximum file size of 5,000KB (5MB). Images will be viewed on a large monitor and should be in the AdobeRGB 1998 or sRGB color space.
- An image can be uploaded into multiple competitions, but only assigned to one category per competition. Any individual image can only place in one competition, and in the instance that it places in more than one competition simultaneously, the instance with the highest rank will prevail.
- The preferred method of entry is electronically, however, if this method is not possible due to your lack of a proper internet connection, you will be able to print out a mailing label to physically submit images on CD
Entry Fees
- The entry fee for each image submitted is US$10.
- You may enter as many images or videos as you wish