DIVE BYRON BAY

Entry fee $75

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SUNDIVE SHOOT-OUT COMPETITION RULES

By entering the competition, the participant agrees to the following rules:

GENERAL RULES:

• All entered photos and videos must be taken on dives with Sundive Byron Bay between 23 May 2010 and 29 May 2010.

• The competition is for amateur photographers only. Sundive staff cannot participate in this competition.

• First and second prizes will be awarded in the following categories: DSLR cameras (best macro, best wide angle, best portfolio) and Point & Shoot cameras (best photo, best portfolio), Best Video and Best Competition Photo.

• All entries must be submitted by 5pm on Saturday 29 May 2010.

• An experienced jury will select the winners who will be announced during the Shoot-out Finale and all available prizes will be distributed.

• Sundive reserves the right to change prizes and entry categories.

• By entering the competition, the participant authorizes Sundive to use all winning materials on the Sundive website, local media and all other media and publications relating to the Sundive Photo Competition.

• All participants must adhere to the NSW Marine Parks Authority Code of Conduct at all times. Any evidence to the contrary will result in immediate disqualification.

• Participants must not touch or manipulate any marine life. Any evidence that a participant has done so will result in immediate disqualification.

• Participants must not damage or harm marine life in any way. This includes but is not limited to the damaging of sponges, corals or anything living on the bottom substrate. Divers must maintain good buoyancy control at all times. It is not acceptable to touch the bottom and cause damage whilst photographing. Any evidence that a participant has done so will result in immediate disqualification.

• All participants must agree to abide by PADI Safe Diving Regulations.

• All participants must dive with a dive buddy at all times.

• Dives are limited to a maximum bottom time of 50mins, if diving with a dive computer. Bottom times will be shorter if participants are diving on the PADI RDP tables. All dives are no-decompression dives. However, safety stops are recommended at 5 metres for 3 minutes.

PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY:

• Photographs can be enhanced, colour corrected and cropped.

• All participants can enter photographs for all categories except Best Competition Photo which will be chosen from all photographs entered in the competition. Every photograph can only be entered once. Photographs entered in the Portfolio category can therefore not be entered in any other category.

• Optimized photographs have to be submitted together with the original files with all image data intact.

• All entries have to be marked with the photographer?s first and last name, number of entry and distinction between original and optimized files (john-smith-1-ori.jpg).

• Only digital photographs can be entered. Submissions must be on DVD, CD or USB memory stick. Participants must label their submissions clearly with their name and contact phone number and include a written or printed list of photographs entered and entry category chosen.

• All photographs entered in the portfolio category must be submitted in a folder on the submitted media. The folder must be named ?Portfolio? and can only contain a maximum of six photographs.

VIDEOGRAPHY CATEGORY:

• Every participant can enter only one video with a maximum length of 10 minutes.

• All entered videos must be on DVD, playable by a standard DVD player and should be in mpeg-2 format.

• The entered video must be submitted together with all original uncut footage on their original format showing that it has been filmed on the dates of the shoot-out.

• Participants must label their submissions clearly with their name, contact phone number and the title of their video.

• All audio must be original or permission must be presented from the copyright holder. Any violations will result in disqualification.