Photographic Society of America
Photo Travel Division


Photo Travel Definition

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Definition A Photo Travel image must express the feeling of a time and place, and portray a land, its distinctive features or culture in its natural state. There are no geographical limitations. Closeup pictures of people or objects must include distinguishable environment. Techniques that add to, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. Conversion to full monochrome is acceptable. Derivations including infrared are unacceptable.

Basic
Digtal
Guidelines

No elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged, combined or changed in any way that affects the integrity of the image content. No manipulation or modification is permitted except resizing, cropping, selective lightening or darkening, and restoration of original color of the scene. No special effect filters can be added or applied, and any sharpening must appear natural.

Image adjustments allowed in competitions are as follows:

1) Exposure adjustment.
2) White balance/color correction.
3) Adjust highlight and shadow detail.
4) Adjust contrast.
5) Adjust saturation.
6) Dust spot removal.
7) Noise removal.
8) Flare removal.
9) Cropping.
10) Sizing.
11) Straightening.
12) No borders; however thin strokes are allowed to define the image if necessary.