WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS
CONTEST 2020

Any professional wedding photographers, full-time or part-time.

Please upload photos with a resolution of at least 1000 pixels at the shorter side, smaller photos are not allowed. Export images as JPEG at a setting of 10 (100%) with sRGB colour space. Layouts, collages, watermarks, copyright, logos, signatures are not allowed. Only bleed photographs without borders. Photos that show images of pornography or have visual content of an offensive, slanderous or extremist nature are not allowed as well.

You need to be a PROWEDaward member to participate. Sign Up on PROWEDaward and you will be able to upload your entries to the contest at section Contest Service in your Account. You can upload single entry (1 photo) or series (2-4 photos), choose a category of each entry (or multiple categories) and pay the entry fee by PayPal or Card.

It is considered that the author of a picture is the person who held the camera and pressed the shutter button. All photographs must be the original work of You and must not violate the rights of any other party and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries. The photographs must not have breached any laws. By sending a photo to contest, you confirm that you are its author. PROWEDaward may use all entries for marketing & promoting the PROWEDaward although there will not be any monetary compensation for the same.

A series constitutes of images that are of the same wedding event/couple and/or should have a very strong connecting theme like lighting, composition, poses or location. Images which don't qualify for this will not be accepted. The Series Entry will be judged as one whole entry. If your photographs are of different wedding events/couples which dont have a strong connecting look and feel please kindly enter them under the Single Entry.

The competition consists of two rounds of assessment. In the first round, all entries will be reviewed and the best part of the entries will be selected for the 2nd round. In the second round, the Judges will rate all entries and select the winners. In the time of the judging, the authorship of the images is hidden and votting of Jury is also anonymous. All images are display in a randomly, it's impossible to specifically vote for a particular job. What will make the selection of winners as independent and objective as possible. At the end of the voting procedure a SQL database query is run to find 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for each category and overal grand winner as wel. We instruct the judges to vote how they feel and also look at Composition, Technical details, Lighting, Originality etc.

Every year, the annual rank from your portfolio is recalculated and you stand a chance to be recognized as the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS. This year we will also appreciate the TOP 10 photographers in each COUNTRY! The more points you earn during the year, the more chance you have to aspire to this award. The photographer with biggest overall ranking will be announcement as the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS. The overall ranking includes annual rank from your portfolio and the ranking for medals awarded in the annual competition. The announcement of the WORLD's TOP 25 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS will be in early February after judding the annual competition.

You get points for each medal as follows:

• Honorable Mention: 5 points
• BRONZE medal: 10 points
• SILVER medal: 20 points
• GOLD medal: 30 points

Yes we have. The all photos submited to competition need to have been shot in year 2019 or 2020.

No, changes are impossible after payment. Therefore, be sure to review your changes before you pay.

We will send the cash prize to the same PayPal account from which you have paid the entry fees. Material prizes will send to your address. All listed cash prize are before tax, and the organizer will withhold and remit tax. ( 19% )

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