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
Children
This sub-category must contain a child or children from birth to age 16.
High School Senior
This sub-category portrays a male or female age 16 to 18.
General Portrait
This sub-category includes families, groups, couples, and adults (18 and older), relationships, models, and fashion portraits, in addition to tastefully artistic figure studies.
Illustrative Categories
Landscape/Nature
This sub-category shares joy and adventures while expressing a sense of place. flowers, seascapes, cityscapes, urban landscapes, and sunsets with or without people can be placed here.
Abstract/Eclectic
This sub-category portrays a male or female age 16 to 18.
Commercial
This sub-category is used when images are created for a commercial client to advertise a product and promote a brand or company. This can be an interior or exterior of a structure or within an industrial environment. Illustrative can also be conceptual images that tell a story.
Drone/Ariel
This sub-category contains any imagery created by a drone or taken from any airborne vehicle, (e. g. plane, hot air balloon, etc.)
Animal Categories
Animal Portrait
This sub–category captures an animal(s) portrait using structured lighting in a studio or controlled outdoor environment, with or without the pet owners control.
Wildlife
This sub–category includes wild animals in an uncontrolled lighting environment, zoo animals, farm animals, sea creatures, birds in their environment.
Wedding Categories
Wedding
This sub category includes images created at a real a wedding. Images can portray a subject or subjects from all aspects of a wedding including traditional portraits, candid, or detail work.
Wedding Album
Multiple images combined into a digital album collection exclusively showcasing a specific wedding.
Artist Categories
These 2 categories must include thumbnails of each original image plus additional added images used to create the overall composite.
Artist Open
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. *The use of stock imagery (not AI generated imagery) is permitted in this category.
Restoration
Digital photograph restoration uses image editing techniques to remove undesired visible features, such as dirt, scratches, or signs of aging. *The use of stock imagery (not AI generated imagery) is permitted in this category.
Other Categories
Album
Consists of portrait and story-telling themes. Content may include weddings, Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, birthday or anniversary parties, portrait sessions, high school seniors, collections of similar imagery (e. g. flowers, antiques, souvenirs, etc.) Minimum 20 images (10 pages).
Reportage/Photojournalism
Images that illustrate an actual public or non-public event, life, an area of human interest, telling news that have meaning in 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 in are allowed. Only single-capture images will be accepted. Composite and multiple exposure images will not be accepted. The original captured image (in RAW or jpg) must be available if requested by the competition committee.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
While AI is quickly taking a hold on image making it does not fall under any of PPColorado or PPA’s image entry categories or rules. These are purely photograph based competitions. Even though sky replacement and object removal are AI based operations currently available in common software, such as Lightroom and Photoshop, this type of imagery is not considered to be AI generated content.
However, we have created an exhibition category where you may enter a purely AI generated image and submit into the PPColorado competition for exhibition only. No category winners or trophies will be chosen.
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 …