Rules
It is difficult to set general rules for such a new and comprehensive body of photography. Consider these rules to be guidelines. We will happily bend them for you if your entry has the artistic and technical quality of a non-traditional photograph. When in doubt, submit. We'd rather hear from you than forego your great artwork!
- One Entry per Photographer. This is probably the rule we won't consider making exceptions to.
- Uploaded Submissions Only. Do you want to deal with the logistics of physical media?
- Minimum Pixel Size: 15 megapixels. Exceptions: for focus stacks, or if you otherwise have a plausible explanation why a small picture belongs here.
- Maximum Pixel Size: No limit. But please be tolerant of our processing engine if it breaks down and we have to go about it manually.
- Field of View: Wider than conventional lenses and preferably >180°. Exception: focus stacks. And of course we're willing to consider any entry creative enough to fit in here.
- Projection:For the print exhibition: use your phantasy. Whatever appeals to your sense of aesthetic. It can be one of the recently added libpano projections or a more traditional mind-bending planet. See examples in the gallery.
- Photographic content: more than 80% of the surface must be the result of a photographic process. No drawings or paintings, please.
- Retouching: Digital retouching of all sorts permitted.
- Color: Any color processing permitted, including but not limited to black&white, HDR/Tonemapping, exposure fusion.
- Subject: Any subject is permitted. We reserve the right to refuse or remove offensive or otherwise inappropriate subjects.
- Tools and Software: While we are promoting Open Source software, we first and foremost promote art rather than technology. No matter what tools you used, if it can be saved in an accepted format (TIFF, PNG, JPEG) it's good for us.
- Copyright, Licenses, Intellectual Property: You represent that you are the original author of your submission, that you have all the necessary permissions and written release forms from models, properties and other owners of dominant intellectual property in the relevant jurisdictions. You license us the non-exclusive use of your submission, and you will be given a choice to license your submission under a Creative Commons license. You will get an opportunity to review to the details after your image is processed (so that you can see what will be shown) and before it is published. If the processed image or the details do not suit your needs, we'll simply delete it. Oups, another rule we won't consider making exceptions to.
To make our lawyer happy, a provisions for unforseen cases: we reserve the ultimate right to refuse or remove an entry for any reason.