Pixels—The Art of the iPhone

Here are the specs for your submission to Pixels At An Exhibition™ (and a whole lot of blathering. I’m sorry, I can’t help it.):

1. You must be the creator and owner of the image copyrights. If you want to watermark your submission, fine, but if you are selected for the gallery show, we will ask (but not required—it is entirely your call) for one without a watermark.
2. Format: Any standard format, size-wise, jpeg off the iPhone is fine: rectangle or square. We have been getting some .png submissions: these are not acceptable. If you have pulled the pictures off the iPhone into iPhoto, fine, just do not modify them on the computer.
3. Images must have been taken with the iPhone and edited with the iPhone ONLY. No exporting to Photoshop on the computer for levels adjusting, for example. To clarify: using any application on the iPhone itself to modify, enhance, manipulate the image IS permitted; exporting the image to a computer for the same is not permitted.
4. If we discover you have submitted a photo that does not adhere to our guidelines, ALL of your photos will be rejected. Sorry, a visitor just alerted us to the fact that one person submitted two pictures taken with a Nikon. So bye-bye!
   
5. Submit up to 5 images at a time, but you may submit only one or two, if you wish. Please do not submit more – it’s hard to keep track of them. (We are posting each image by hand, so we want your BEST five images!). If you are using PixelEx, you may submit more.
6. For submissions, please use the PixelEx app to upload images directly to the site. You may also send images in one batch of five (or less) from your iPhone directly to submissions@pixelsatanexhibition.com.
7. Some people send them one at a time. It’s sort of a pain, but not the end of the world. We will get to posting emailed pictures eventually, but there is always a backlog.
   We will be streamlining submissions for registered and approved artists with the next iteration of the site and PixelEx.
   (Please note: we at PixelsAtAnExhibition.com get no money from PixelEx: it all goes to the developer!)
8. We strongly suggest that, if you must use Hipstamatic, use it sparingly. We want the pictures that reflect YOU, not Hipstamatic. I highly recommend further apping Hipstamatic shots to reduce the cookie-cutter imprint/filtering Hipstamatic imposes on images. More on this later, in the form of an article.
   Also, please do not send four versions of the same shot, with slightly different filtering! Send your favorite.
   Self-portraits in the mirror are usually rejected, unless there is something remarkable about them, like you are a naked beautiful woman. Pictures of your shadow on the ground or a wall, ditto. I also cannot stand “negative” images: only once in a rare while does it work. That said, I DO use negative images for layering in DXP (using “Difference”) to great effect.

And here are the contractual issues surrounding your submissions:

1. You will retain copyright of all images, but you are permitting us to display images on this website, print out and display images in the gallery and, if selected, to be included in a book of images produced by PixelsAtAnExhibition.com for no extra fees or royalties.
2. If we sell prints of your image at the gallery, which we have printed out, we will split the purchase price with you, fifty-fifty. If you have your own website and sell prints from there, it’s all yours, baby!
3. We are now selling prints/cards from the site in January. Again, with a percentage going to us (30% of net) and a percentage (70% of net) going to the artist. Net is 85% of purchase price: Fotomoto.com takes 15% off the top.
4. Any disputes over images will result in your image(s) being removed immediately from the website and the gallery. You may, at any time, ask us to remove, for any reason, images from website or the gallery. If your image has been chosen for the gallery show and inclusion in a book, you have up until the time we create the book to ask it be removed. If we have created and submitted the book, too late! Frankly, we can’t see why anyone would want to do this, but artists can get funny sometimes.
5. Prior to publication we will ask you for name, website (or any online gallery of yours) and, if you care to share, which apps you used for your image(s). We hope you will share!

Upon registering and submitting your photos you, using the same email address, are declaring that your submissions meet our guidelines and you are agreeing to out terms.