In addition to the trophies and medals, award recipients receive national publication of their images in a number of New Zealand photography magazines including PSNZ Camera Talk and the Salon's Yearly Catalogue.

Our sponsors are Photogear and Print Art.

If you have not completed your entry, you can update your details at any time under “Personal Details”. If you need to change any details after final submission of your entry, you will need to contact the Salon Secretary at secretary@northshoresalon.co.nz.

The opening date for submissions is: Tue 10 May
and the closing date is: Fri 10 June

However, the committee has the discretion to allow individual entrants to submit their entries earlier, and to adjust the closing date for all entrants if time permits..
The considerations for early or late entry are these:

• We don't want to allow entry before we have completely finalised the rules, and we reserve the right to make small changes until the first entry has been received.
• We can't allow digital entries to be submitted late, because we need enough time to prepare the files for judging, and the judges need enough time to do their work.

  With all this in mind, if you need to submit your entry before the official opening, email entries@northshoresalon.co.nz and we will arrange it for you if possible.

• Jackie Ranken
• Sarah Caldwell, APSNZ
• Mike Langford
• Lynn Clayton, Hon.PSNZ,APSNZ, EFIAP, ESFIAP
• Geoff Beals, APSNZ
• Smita Upadhye
• Tracey Scott, FPSNZ
• Timothy Lomax

• If you are a first time entrant, you will need to create a new account. Click on ‘Create an Account” and complete the form. An email will be sent out with further instructions.
• If you have entered the Salon in previous years, you will still have an active account. If you have forgotten your password or your user name, use the “Forgotten Password” link and your details will be sent to your email. If you have forgotten both your email and password, you will need to create a new account. Contact the Webmaster at webmaster@northshoresalon.co.nz for any queries.
• To enter, select “Entry Form”. On your first visit you will view the Salon’s Terms and Conditions. You can also view the T&Cs under “Conditions of Entry”.
• You can now upload the images you wish to enter. You can enter a maximum of 4 images per category.
• Once uploaded, your entry will be saved to the website.  You do not have to enter all your images in one session - you are able to review, delete, edit and add to your entry form as often as you like. Once you are happy with your selection, you can finalise your Entry Form. Once you have finalised your Entry Form, you will not be able to make any more changes. 
• You will be given the option to pay your entry fees via the PayPal link, which will allow payment by credit card. Your entry will not be accepted until payment has been processed, and any prints received.  Your entry will be confirmed by email. For more details on our fees and payment options, please look under “Money” in the FAQs.

Yes, provided your image has not previously been awarded an Acceptance or better in the North Shore Salon.

Prints will be returned in suitable packaging to New Zealand addresses only, except by prior arrangement and payment of the extra costs involved.  This will occur after they have been displayed/exhibited in one or more locations.

We define "suitable packaging" as a box or case that can have prints inside with minimal extra protection, that can be handed to the couriers with no external wrapping except possibly for sticky tape to hold it shut, and to which we can attach a sticky label with the return address.

Yes. 

You may also order up to 10 catalogues at the price of $50 for the first, and $45 for each extra copy.  

No.   The aim of the Salon is to advance and promote photography in New Zealand. Entry fees are designed so that the Salon breaks even.   Any excess of funds over expenses received by way of sponsorship etc. is returned to the competition in the form of equipment and process improvements.  All our comittee members are volunteers who donate their time and expertise to run the Salon.

The North Shore Salon of Photography accepts credit cards via the Paypal system. If you cannot use, or do not wish to use, this payment system, contact us and we will make arrangements for you to pay by internet banking.  The system will not allow you to complete your entry without making a credit card payment, unless we have made prior arrangements for you to use internet banking

When using internet banking, please deposit to the North Shore Salon of Photography's bank account: No:- 03 1510 0006204 001. Please be sure to show your Entrant Number and your surname in the details box.  Your Entrant Number can be found on the top of the entry page.

You need to include your surname and Entrant-ID in the bank reference data, so that it shows on our bank statement. Once we have confirmed your payment, you will then be emailed a confirmation of entry.

We will email you to let you know that we have received an entry without a fee and we will advise you on how to pay. If the fee is not received by the closing date your entry will be withdrawn. There are NO exceptions to this.

No, it is not mandatory.   However, we earnestly recommend that you do order one.   The catalogue is a high-quality book which we are selling at cost price, and that price depends on the quantity we order.   Orders placed after the initial delivery can be fulfilled, but at a substantially higher price.

The catalogue is a high quality book containing copies of all the photographs accepted into the Salon.   It represents a snapshot of the "state of the art" in New Zealand, and will be a source of inspiration for the future.

We are quite sure you will not regret your purchase.

Yes.  Although we prefer you to operate the on-line system yourself, if this is impossible for you, please contact us and we will operate the system on your behalf.  

Yes - we don't disclose any of your personal information to anyone.

We have built into our system a number of very secure checks and are absolutely confident that your photos and information are secure. By uploading your images online you will also avoid the possibility of your USB flash drive going astray.

No. We do not give your details to anybody else without your permission, and will only contact you regarding Salon matters.

Our server sent out a confirmation email immediately.   Check you typed your email address correctly.   Some ISPs (including Xtra/Yahoo) hold back emails from new contacts the first time, as a method for stopping spam.   The idea is that a spammer will not retry, whereas a genuine contact will.   Our system will keep retrying for a couple of days before giving up.  Please allow your server to wait an hour.   If you have not received confirmation after this time please check your spam folder. If there is still no confirmation after 24 hours, please contact us by telephone.

You can make changes at any time, up until you have printed the "Entry form for final submission" No changes can be made by you after that point, so be sure that you are completely happy before this final step.   To change an image you already uploaded, you have to delete the entry and start again with that image.  Other images remain unaffected.

Because we have printed labels to attach to your prints etc., and would not be aware of changes made by you.   Changes can still be made, but we need to alter paper as well as computer records.  Just contact us for help.

Yes.  You can change it at any time, and to any word or phrase.

The Login screen has a Forgot? button. If you click on that with nothing entered in the userid and password fields, the system will ask you for your email address, and send an email with a list of all the userids registered to that email address.   If you click the Forgot? button having entered your userid, the system will (after checking with you) change your password to some random data and email you the result.

For 2022, the Salon is an "all-digital" competition.  Hopefully, this is a temporary situation, and the scourge of Covid-19 will be behind us next year.

We decided that we wanted to continue the tradition of having an exhibition of prints.  And since we could not be sure of being able to safely handle and judge prints, we decided to make it so that entries must be able to be printed to a reasonable standard on an A4 sheet.  In previous years, that has been the defacto minimum size for prints.  We used that as the basis for working out the pixel requirements.  It's a compromise, as all things are, but we set the maximum pixel size to cover an A3 print at 300ppi, and the minimum size to cope with an A4 print at 240ppi.

The medal-winning entries will be printed and exhibited firstly in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore, and then, we hope, at various other destinations around the country.

It follows from that decision that all entries must conform to the same size requirement, or the winning "digital" entries would have to be printed at post-card size.  So, finally, we decided to reduce the number of categories from 8 to 6, and make them all "virtual prints".

We hope that the photographers who are used to the 1620x1080 size of digitals will accept the larger size.  Certainly at the North Shore Photographic Society we have been using 3240x2160 as our digital size for some years now, since we acquired a 4k projector for our club nights, and the members have segued into the new size quite happily.

No, you can login or out at any time, and upload your images in batches or individually in one or several sessions.

No.

No. There is no loss of quality.

No. Only Salon personnel and people who know your userid and password can get at your images. The images are stored in a location on the server that is NOT accessible over the internet except via our own entry system.

When an image has been uploaded, a thumbnail appears on the website.   If you can see the thumbnail, your image IS uploaded correctly.  When you have printed your "final entry form", we will email you confirmation of what you have entered. If you do not receive an upload confirmation email immediately after having printed this form, then please wait for an hour before contacting the salon by email.

Your image must be a jpeg file with a maximum width of 3240 pixels, and a maximum height of 2160 pixels.   Images larger than that will be downsized to conform.

For 2022 we are also imposing a minimum pixel density.  Images with a width less than 1680 pixels or a height of less than 1680 pixels will not be allowed.  The height rule is relaxed in the case of a "letterbox" or "column" image image, so if an image has a width of greater than 2880 pixels, the height is ignored.  If a portrait image has a height equal to 2160 pixels, the width is ignored.

Images will be displayed for judging in a colour managed environment, so whatever profile you use will be honoured.   The monitors and projectors in use will use the perceptual model to convert whatever you embed.   If no profile is embedded, we will assume sRGB IEC61966-2.1.

As soon as an image is uploaded and before you see the confirming thumbnail, the server checks the uploaded image for size, and if necessary, reduces it.   The software used is "Image Magick".   It is a very slow process, so you are advised to resize your images before uploading.

Yes.   Click on a thumbnail in the menu panel.   Your browser will open a new window containing your image at 100%.   This works both for images for judging and images for publication (where 100% will probably be greater than your screen size).   To view the image full-screen, exactly as the judge will see it, press F11 - (unless your browser is Safari, or you are using a Mac.).   Press esc to quit.

Our system renames your file on upload, and the name of the file in your computer is ignored.  So, it simply doesn't matter how you name your digital image.  The title that you enter in the entry form page is important, however,  Although it forms no part of the file name, it is used when judging, preparing the catalogue and displaying the results on the website.