The 2019 PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL SLIDE SHOW CONTEST. NO ENTRY FEE!

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1ST Each evening of the festival we present the work of 4 finalists. Your work could be seen by the participants and attendees of the PSPF on the large screen in the Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum.

OVER $5000 WORTH OF PRIZES WILL BE OFFERED TO THE WINNER & FIRST RUNNER-UP FROM OUR MAJOR SPONSORS!

NEC will be giving a $1300 PA242W-BK-SV 27″ SPECTRAVIEW MONITOR to the WINNER!
THINK TANK has offered $450 AIRPORT SECURITY V.2 ROLLING BAG!
SAMY’S CAMERA has given us a $300 Gift Certificate for the grand prize recipient !
A&I BOOKS is offering a 100-page 11×17 hardcover lay-flat book valued at $155
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DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!
Send us your slide shows! You can send as many as you like. Please try to be sure they are sent in Mac readable format, with each image saved together in a folder as well as incorporated into your show. The slide shows you send will be used by us as a guide – also distributed to our judges, so the slideshow needn’t be perfect nor large – not more than 30 megs please. We accept Quicktime movies, Power Point and Keynote presentations. Please also send all jpgs in a folder with your music or audio track selection separately with your submission. Please number your images in the order you’d like them projected. Slide shows cannot be longer than three minutes in duration and should have music. If you don’t include music, we’ll try to marry the work with compatible music at our end. If you choose to send a complete slide show, please also include your music or audio track file in a separate folder on your disk or in your upload. All images should be sized to 2000 pixels on the long dimension. We request you send us a brief text about your submission. Be sure to include your name, address, email address and telephone number with your submission. There is no entry fee required.

CHECKLIST:

• Make your slide show using your favorite software
• Rename all your jpgs in the order to be projected i.e.: PSPF1.jpg, PSPF2.jpg etc.
• Create folder and include your slide show in Mac-readable format. Your name must be the name of the folder. Please – this is important.
• Within this folder, create another folder and enclose all your jpgs (2000 pixels on the long edge).
• Add your music file to the folder
• Add your text file with title, description and contact info to the folder
• Zip your folders into one compressed file before sending / uploading to us.
• Send via dropbox, hightail.com, retransfer.com or any other file transfer service to us at contest AT palmspringsphotofestival.com

We’ll email you to let you know we’ve received them. OUR ADDRESS for sending us files by either of these methods is contest (at) palmspringsphotofestival.com. (please substitute @ for the word “at”). PLEASE REMEMBER: The title of the slide show should be your name, first, followed by the title of the show if required.

Try to avoid the “Ken Burns effect.” It does your work a disservice in the context of an audience of photographers – it’s fine for editorializing your work – for other purposes, but for a slide show for photographers it’s distracting. Thank you.

The Palm Springs Photo Festival reserves the right to use portions of any slide show selected as a finalist or grand prize winner in the promotion of the Palm Springs Photo Festival Slide Show Contest and by sending us your show, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive sublicense for such use only. Credit and copyright notice will accompany all uses and photographer will be notified of such use. The Palm Springs Photo Festival cannot be held responsible for loss or damage of any submissions. You retain 100% of your copyright to the material.

Winner must live in the United States to receive free shipping of sponsor gifts.

A Word about music copyrights: If your slide show is accepted as a finalist and contains copyrighted recorded music, to be shown in our Evening Presentation, you will need to obtain the synchronization rights from the music publisher and the master use rights from the recording company (record label). These are not difficult to obtain and the cost is minimal. We can also try to help you to obtain these permissions if you have difficulties, but we cannot be held responsible for doing so. Another option is to use royalty-free music, which is easy to obtain by searching royalty-free music on Google. A wide range of music is available to choose from. Please indicate on your submission if you’ve used royalty-free music.