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With the theme of “Tashi Delek,” the 4th China Xizang Internet Photography&Video Festival invites you to show the world the beauty of Xizang with your original works including photos, short videos, animation, online songs and micro films.

I. Selection Process

The Organizing Committee will invite professional photo editors to preview all the submitted works, and internet users can cast their votes online for the Best Popularity Award. The reviews will be conducted by the Expert Review Committee composed of the Institute of Art Anthropology of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing Film Academy, China Photographers Association, School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, Communication University of China, Pingyao International Photography Festival, contracted photographers of VU Photo Agency of France, and Xizang Photographers Association.

II. Participants

Photographers, creators, art lovers and netizens all over the world

III. Content of submissions

i. You may find your inspiration from everyday events and ordinary stories for our collected works.

ii. Students who return to Xizang during the summer break may pick up the mobile phones or cameras to record the beautiful life where man and nature live in harmony;

iii. Magnificent and spectacular Xizang represented by various wild animals and plants are welcomed for our collected works.

iv. The topic of mothers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is also an option for your work.

IV. Requirements for submitted works

1. Submitted works must be original ones, and have not been reviewed or received an award on any platform. Keep RAW files after submission for originality checks.
2. Please attach the title and description of the work, indicating the shooting time, location, content and subject.
3. Pictures:

Pictures must be high-resolution;

No limitations on black-and-white or colored photos;

Pixels no less than 800W;

Formats: mainstream formats such as JPG and PNG;

Pictures should not be smaller than 2 megabytes;

Set of pictures or animated gifs are also permitted for submission and the number of pictures per group should be between 4 and 12;

Participants may make appropriate post-processing of the pictures, such as brightness, contrast, white balance and saturation;

Techniques such as recomposition to change the original content of the work are not allowed;

Complete EXIF information should be retained.

Entries without original picture information will be deemed invalid.

4. Short videos:

Duration of video: less than 5 minutes;

Chinese and English subtitles are required for any dialogues or dubbings;

Video format: mainstream formats such as MP4 and MOV, encoded as H.264;

Video resolution: 1920*1080 or above;

Frame rate: no less than 25 frames;

The footage should be clear and stable, as well as having natural coloring and without any obvious noise or shaking. The sound and footage should be fully synchronized; Cartoons, vlogs, melodramas and other types of short videos are also permitted for submission.

5. Animation:

Animations must be designed around the themes of festival and in forms of portrait cartoons, poster illustrations, cartoons, animation short videos, etc.

Portrait cartoons can be both paper hand-painted and computer-drawn.

The minimum paper size is A4; the computer hand-painted file format is JPG; the color mode is CMYK; the resolution is 300dpi, and the size of a single picture is no more than 20M.

All works shall be submitted electronically scanned (paper manuscripts must be provided for winning works);

Poster illustration should be presented in posters, illustrations and other forms.

A series of 1-3 works is a group; the file format is JPG; the color mode is CMYK; the minimum specification is not less than A3 size, the resolution is 300dpi, the size of a single picture is not more than 20M;

Comics require a complete story in the form of comics (no less than 12P); the file format is JPG; the color mode is CMYK, and the resolution is not less than 300dpi; Animation short video requirements include video animation, short video, etc., encoding must be H.264; frame rate is no less than 25 frames; duration is no more than 5 minutes (including the beginning and the end); the width-to-height ratio of the frame is 16:9; resolution is no less than 1920×1080; bit rate is no less than 4Mbps; format must be MP4, and Chinese subtitles shall be provided.

Production of 4K ultra HD format works is encouraged, with a resolution of 3840*2160 (16:9), bit rate of not less than 15Mbps, format MP4.

6. Online songs: Online songs make Xizang’s voice heard through lyrics and singing.
7. Micro films:

Video: less than 15 minutes;

Complete story with a beginning and an end is required;

Chinese and English subtitles are required for any dialogues or dubbings;

Video format: mainstream formats such as MP4 and MOV, encoded as H.264;

Video resolution: 1920*1080 or above;

Frame rate: no less than 25 frames;

The footage should be clear and stable, as well as having natural coloring and without any obvious noise or shaking. The sound and footage should be fully synchronized;

V. Ways to enter submissions

The works can be independently submitted by individuals or organizations. Pictures, short videos and micro films can be uploaded through the solicitation page of Vision China 500px Community. Creative design entries can be uploaded through the solicitation page of Visual China Love Visual Design Community; Online songs can be submitted to [email protected].

VI. Duration of the event

1. Submission period: July 15, 2023 – December 31, 2023;
2. Review period: January 1, 2024 – February 15, 2024;
3. Awarding period: February 19, 2024 – February 25, 2024;
4. Awards ceremony: March 20, 2024;
5. Promotion period: July 12, 2023 – March 31, 2024.

VII. Awards and prizes

There are four awards for each of the five submission units, including first prize, second prize, third prize and Best Popularity Award. A separate Best Organization Award is also set up for organizational recommendations. The amount of prizes totals 709,000 yuan:

i. Pictures: 68,000 yuan

1 first prize with 12,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

2 second prizes with 10,000 yuan/piece, totaling 20,000 yuan

3 third prizes with 8,000 yuan/piece, totaling 24,000 yuan

3 best popularity awards with 4,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

ii. Short videos: 242,000 yuan

1 first prize with 40,000 yuan/piece, totaling 40,000 yuan

3 second prizes with 30,000 yuan/piece, totaling 90,000 yuan

5 third prizes with 20,000 yuan/piece, totaling 100,000 yuan

3 best popularity awards with 4,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

iii. Animation: 112,000 yuan

1 first prize with 30,000 yuan/piece, totaling 30,000 yuan

2 second prizes with 20,000 yuan/piece, totaling 40,000 yuan

3 third prizes with 10,000 yuan/piece, totaling 30,000 yuan

3 best popularity awards with 4,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

iv. Online songs: 112,000 yuan

1 first prize with 30,000 yuan/piece, totaling 30,000 yuan

2 second prizes with 20,000 yuan/piece, totaling 40,000 yuan

3 third prizes with 10,000 yuan/piece, totaling 30,000 yuan

3 best popularity awards with 4,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

v. Micro films: 172,000 yuan

1 first prize with 40,000 yuan/piece, totaling 40,000 yuan

2 second prizes with 30,000 yuan/piece, totaling 60,000 yuan

3 third prizes with 20,000 yuan/piece, totaling 60,000 yuan

3 best popularity awards with 4,000 yuan/piece, totaling 12,000 yuan

vi. Best Organization Award: 3,000 yuan

3 best organization awards, each with a medal.

VIII. Statement

1. For the winning works, the organizer has the right to use the entries without compensation for relevant purposes in the form of reproduction, distribution, exhibition (online and offline), screening, information network dissemination, compilation, etc. The copyright of the winning works remains with the original authors.
2. The organizer has the right to use all submitted entries for publicity and promotion for the purpose of promoting this activity or public welfare activities, and use the entries through various channels (including but not limited to the Internet, press releases or other media, offline exhibition and promotion meetings, etc., and retaining the authorship right of photographers of the entries), and the use areas are not restricted.
3. Authors shall ensure that the works they submit do not infringe the lawful rights and interests of the third parties, including copyright, portrait rights, reputation rights, privacy rights, etc., and have independent, complete, clear and undisputed copyrights for the whole and any components of the works. All responsibilities arising from works or submission acts shall be borne by the authors themselves.
4. The final right of interpretation for this event belongs to its organizers. Any authors taking part in the activity shall be deemed to have agreed to all the provisions of the activity.

Source: Xinhuanet

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From Portugal to Tucson, Arizona, photography enthusiasts and iPhone or iPad owners worldwide participated in the latest rendition of the iPhone Photography Awards. The winners were announced this week and will have you reconsidering just how powerful the camera set on Apple’s devices can be.

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The iPhone Photography Awards have been held annually since the launch of the first iPhone in 2007 and span 14 categories, including abstract, cityscape, portrait, and nature. Participants can submit any photo shot on an iPhone or iPad, as long as it’s their own, has not been previously published, and hasn’t been edited in a desktop image software. The photos can be edited on the iPhone using any iOS app.

The competition is for the title of the IPPA Photographer of the Year, with one grand prize winner receiving an iPad Air and the following top three winners each receiving an Apple Watch Series 3. 

Entries are now open for the 2024 selection of the iPhone Photography Awards. Would-be participants can submit their photo and entry fee until March 31, 2024. 

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1826
Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea.

1829
Frenchmen Jacques Louis Mande Daguerre and Nicephore Niepce sign partnership agreement to work on perfecting photography. 

1839
January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal Society of London a paper on photogenic drawing, permanent camera obscura images made with photosensitive silver salts on paper.

March: American Samuel F. B. Morse, in Paris to promote his telegraph, meets with Daguerre and returns to New York to teach the process. Among his pupils is noted photographer Matthew Brady.

August: Noted French scientist Francois Arago, with Daguerre, announces the details of the first commercially practical photographic process, the daguerreotype, before a joint session of the French Academies of Science and Fine Arts. A sharp mirror-like image on a silvered copper plate, the daguerreotype exploits a photosensitive latent image that is developed with mercury. The direct positive images start a craze of popular interest.

1841
Talbot patents the calotype, a negative-positive process on paper that employs the latent image developed by gallic acid.

1850
Englishman Frederick Scott Archer coats glass plates with sticky wet collodion with silver salts.

Frenchman Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard makes positive photographic prints on paper coated with albumen (egg whites).

1851
From 1851-1854, ambrotypes are introduced in Europe and U.S. and are used in mid1850s. These wet collodion images are made direct positives by blackening the back of the glass plate and like daguerreotypes are carried in plastic cases. Replaced with wet collodion negatives and positive paper prints that dominate photography next 25 years.

1854 
July 12: George Eastman is born in Waterville, New York.

1860
February 27: Matthew Brady takes a photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in New York.

1861
In London, James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates a projected color photographic image, using three different color filters. 

Alexander Parkes produces a celluloid-like cellulose material. 

1862
April 27: George Eastman’s father, George Washington Eastman, dies.

1870
George Eastman’s sister, Katie Eastman, a polio sufferer, dies.

Henry Alvah Strong family moves into the Eastman household as short-term boarders, meet George Eastman, and begin an increasingly important relationship with him.

1871
Englishman Richard L. Maddox discloses the gelatin dry-plate process for photography. Commercial exploitation begins in 1878.

1873
John Wesley Hyatt trademarks the name “celluloid” in U.S. and Great Britain.

1875
George Eastman is a junior bookkeeper at the Rochester Savings Bank.

1877
August: American Eadweard Muybridge develops a fast shutter that aids him in making photographs of objects in motion.

George Eastman prepares to travel to Santo Domingo to speculate on land. To document his findings, he begins study of photography.

1878
Among numerous English photographers, Charles Bennett improves gelatin dry plate photography, increasing the photosensitivity of the silver-salted gelatin emulsion (hence photographs take less exposure time) . Eastman sees the report in the “British Journal of Photography.”

1880
April: George Eastman patents “a method and apparatus for coating plates for use in photography.”

April: George Eastman sets up a photographic dry-plate production shop in Rochester.

1881
January 1: Henry Strong begins to invest in the Eastman Dry Plate Company, becoming president. George Eastman is treasurer.

September 5: George Eastman resigns from his position at the Rochester Savings Bank.

Etienne-Jules Marey invents a repeating camera that can record multiple images on the same plate.

1885
May 5: George Eastman and William Walker receive patent for the Eastman-Walker Roll Holder, a device that advances film for cameras to which it is attached. Soon afterward, Eastman sends Walker to England head to his London office. 

1886
August: Eastman hires Henry M. Reichenbach, a chemist to improve the photographic emulsion and to develop a substitute for paper film.

Eastman introduces a “detective camera,” which incorporates the Eastman-Walker Roll Holder.

1887
The Reverend Hannibal Goodwin, a minister at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey, invents a method for making transparent, flexible film and applies for a patent.

December: The Eastman company starts use of the Kodak trademark.

1888
Eastman introduces the “roll holder breast camera,” known generally as the Kodak camera, which is easier to use and mass-produce than its earlier detective camera. Its retail cost is $25.

1889
On a trip to Europe, George Eastman meets George and Josephine Dickman. 

August 27: Eastman introduces a transparent, flexible film, which uses celluloid as a basic material, to the public.

September: The Reverend Hannibal Goodwin files an interference against Eastman for the use of transparent, flexible film.

December 10: Henry M. Reichenbach, working under the employ of George Eastman, patents a method of making transparent, flexible film.

Thomas Edison orders specially designed rolls of the new transparent, flexible film from the Eastman company for use in his development of a motion-picture camera.

1890
Eastman breaks ground for first buildings at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York.

1892
January 1: George Eastman fires his chemist, Henry Reichenbach, when his plan to start his own company is discovered.

1893
January: Eastman fires William Walker as his London manager and replaces him with George Dickman.

Eastman hires William Stuber. He soon becomes head of the Emulsions Department. 

1895
November 8: Wilhelm Roentgen of Germany invents the x-ray photograph.

Lumière brothers of France exhibit cinema projector. 

Between 1895 and 1898, Eastman purchases three companies that hold important roll-film system patents.

1898
November 15: George Dickman dies in London. Thereafter, George Eastman becomes a lifelong companion of Dickman’s widow, Josephine.

1900
The Brownie camera, designed for Eastman by Frank Brownell, is introduced at a retail price of one dollar.

December 31: The Rev. Hannibal Goodwin dies as the result of injuries suffered in a street-car incident. 

1906
A photographic method that allows images to be reduced or enlarged, known as the photostat, is introduced.

1907
June 16: Maria Eastman, George Eastman’s mother, dies in Rochester, New York, at the age of 85.

In France, Auguste and Louis Lumiere introduce the Autochrome, the first color photography system that can be used by amateurs.

1912
Siegrist and Fisher develop the first subtractive color photography process, which will become the basis for Kodachrome.

March 6: George Eastman formally commits to donating two and one half million dollars to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the condition that he remain anonymous. He is dubbed “Mr. Smith.”

George Eastman prepares to travel to Santo Domingo to speculate on land. To document his findings, he begins study of photography.

1914
March 10: An appellate court upholds a ruling against the Eastman Kodak Company for infringing Hannibal Goodwin’s patent on transparent, flexible film and orders the company to pay five million dollars in cash to the Ansco Company, which then owned the Goodwin patent.

1920 
January 10: Mr. Smith, the anonymous donor to MIT, is revealed at an annual alumni dinner to be George Eastman.

1922
September 4: The Eastman Theater is opened in Rochester, New York.

1924
May 20: AT&T sends photographs by wire in an important step toward the invention of television.

1925
George Eastman retires from Eastman Kodak and names William Stuber to succeed him as president.

October 25: John Logie Baird, a Scotsman living in England, transmits the first photographic image with a full range of half-tones without the use of wires.

1926
George Eastman goes to Kenya on a six-month safari, during which he films a wild rhinoceros charging him on Cine-Kodak film.

1930
Reliable photoflash light bulbs become available to photographers. 

1931
Harold Edgerton develops the stroboscope, a precisely timed flash that allows photographers to capture motions of infinitesimally short duration.

1932
March 14: George Eastman takes his own life with an automatic pistol at his home in Rochester, New York.

1935
Eastman Kodak introduces the Kodachrome process of color photography, invented by Kodak employees Leopold Damrosch Mannes and Leopold Godowsky.

1937
Chester Carlson invents “electron photography,” which later comes to be known as xerography, or simply photocopying.

1946
Zoomar introduces the zoom lens, the invention of American Frank Back.

1947
Edwin H. Land announces his invention of the Polaroid camera, which can develop images inside the camera in approximately one minute.

1963
Kodak introduces the Instamatic line, the first point-and-shoot cameras.

1986
Fuji introduces the Quicksnap, a disposable camera that revisits the original Kodak principle: the user sends the camera into the manufacturer, which then develops the film.

1992
Kodak introduces the Photo CD, the first method of storing digital images to become available to the general public.

February: JPEG, a compression standard for storing and sending photographic images over the Internet, is described in a paper published in “IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.”