$76 to enter a competition would you bother?

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Just been sent an email asking me to enter the Epson pano awards only to find out if i submit the maximum of 6 images it will cost me $76 :eek:

Now i know its my/our choice to enter or not but i cant help but think this is just some sort of money making scheme they even want the pics to be sent large size and at 300 dpi which makes me wonder if there thinking of printing them. I like a bit of fun entering comps but not when i have to pay for it.

Would any of you bother with comps like this

One more thing it even says "Judging will be blind" :lol::lol:

http://www.thepanoawards.com/EnterAwards/agree.php
 
God no. Pay to hand over rights for your images? Tell them to royally stuff themselves with something firm, rigid, and slightly too large for chosen orifice.

All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by The EPSON International Pano Awards, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only. You hereby grant The EPSON International Pano Awards a non-exclusive, irrevocable license in each Entry throughout the world in perpetuity in all media for any use directly or indirectly connected with the Competition, including, but not limited to:

1. judging the Competition
2. displaying the winning entries and runners up at public exhibitions promoting The EPSON International Pano Awards and organized by The EPSON International Pano Awards
3. inclusion within the Website, an Awards book, magazine or similar
4. inclusion within any materials promoting of the Competition and / or any exhibition organized by The EPSON International Pano Awards or its Event Partners, in the promotion of The EPSON International Pano Awards
5. inclusion on Competition- and exhibition-related products to be sold by The EPSON International Pano Awards or any third party following the individual agreement by the author
6. sub-licensing the Entries to the press for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any exhibition
7. allowing viewers of the Website to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for their personal, non-commercial use only
8. being chosen and entered into promotional competitions by The EPSON International Pano Awards or its Event Partners for marketing and promotional purposes
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You keep the rights, but what you don't know can't hurt you eh? ;)
 
If you have the cash and the confidence to believe that your images can win this award, then why not enter? What, exactly is the point in keeping the images hidden away so that very few people can see them purely because the rights to your image is sacrosanct. Makes no sense to me if fame and fortune beckons - it's not exactly as if the Pano Awards is a tin pot competition is it.





foodpoison said:
God no. Pay to hand over rights for your images? Tell them to royally stuff themselves with something firm, rigid, and slightly too large for chosen orifice.



You keep the rights, but what you don't know can't hurt you eh? ;)
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If they are thinking of printing your images, what exactly do you think they are going to do with them - sell them on? Rip you off? I don't think so. The people who are judges have obviously earned the right to judge because they have talent and know what they are on about, so they are hardly likely to want to rip off the entrants photos. And look at it from another angle too - with a $76 entry fee they will automatically filter out the wheat from the chaff because only those who have the confidence in the images that they create will pay that and enter, and those who don't won't which means they will get less entries than an open competition, but the overall standard will be much higher.

Lee
www.sophotogenic.co.uk


Cameraman said:
Just been sent an email asking me to enter the Epson pano awards only to find out if i submit the maximum of 6 images it will cost me $76 :eek:

Now i know its my/our choice to enter or not but i cant help but think this is just some sort of money making scheme they even want the pics to be sent large size and at 300 dpi which makes me wonder if there thinking of printing them. I like a bit of fun entering comps but not when i have to pay for it.

Would any of you bother with comps like this

One more thing it even says "Judging will be blind" :lol::lol:

http://www.thepanoawards.com/EnterAwards/agree.php
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