From the trivialities of life to the vastness of the universe, every moment shines with the value of recording. Go beyond the act of documenting and feel the deep affection contained in the photograph. The scorching summer has quietly arrived, transcending and moving-Canon full-frame micro-photography contest (summer rhapsody) is officially opened! If you are passionate about photography, you are cordially invited to take a Canon camera and embark on a journey to capture the magnificent scenery under the scorching sun with a flick of the shutter. This year's competition has set up 4 theme tracks: natural roaming, city shuttle, pedestrian world, freeze frame and focus on excitement. Entries can focus on natural scenery, ecological things, the germination of a hundred spirits, portrait life, urban scenery, large aperture creation, etc., to record the timeless style of summer. Entries must be full-frame photographs, regardless of subject matter or brand, and you are welcome to use Canon cameras to create and submit your work.
To participate, please visit the official website of Hummingbird
【Solicitation contents】
Nature Roaming - Natural scenery, ecological blockbuster
City Shuttle - City buildings, street capture
Walk in the World - Portraits taken during the season
Freeze frame for a moment to focus on the wonderful - fixed-focus lens photography
Recommended Use:
RF16mm F2.8 STM
RF28mm F2.8 STM
RF24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM
RF35mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM
RF50mm F1.2 L USM
RF85mm F1.2 L USM
RF85mm F2 MACRO IS STM
RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
RF135mm F1.8 L IS USM
【Solicitation Period】
2024.5.8 Call for Papers
2024.8.8 Call for Papers Deadline
2024.8.9-8.27 Work Selection
2024.8.28 Award announcement
Invite friends to participate in the competition and get more rewards
This film competition still retains the incentive mechanism of "friend invitation". Generate an invitation code through the platform, and the invited friends can scan the invitation code to participate in the competition. If the number of friends you invite ranks in the TOP10, you can get a Canon custom canvas bag or a hummingbird peripheral and a 200 yuan JD card from us. Hurry up and join us in the film competition!
Canon Purchase Incentive Program
All qualified contributors are eligible to participate in the program. Users who meet the rules [purchase the Canon EOS R5&R6Mark II&R8&R6 within 1 calendar month before the start of the contest and within 1 calendar month after participating in the contest] will have a chance to receive cashback rewards. Within 10 working days after the end of the competition, we will select users who meet the conditions of the incentive plan to give incentives for cash back on purchases, with an amount of 1,500 yuan, which will be rebated after purchase.
New plan
As long as it is the first time to participate in the Canon Photo Contest and the submission is qualified, users will be deemed to have participated in the lucky draw. The prize is 1 Hummingbird commemorative T-shirt + 1 JD card of 200 yuan! We will announce the list of 5 new users who won the prize after the contest ends.
【Awards & Prizes】
1st overall winner: Canon EOS R6 Mark II with a market value of 16,499 yuan
3 champions in the sub-track: each person will get a market value of about 999 yuan Hongchi 2000X Glory Speed Five-proof SD card 64GB
6 runners-up in the sub-track: each person will receive a SmallRig LP-E6NH USB-C direct charging camera battery with a market value of about 299 yuan
10 participation awards: each person will receive a customized canvas bag with a market value of 99 yuan
【Freeze Frame Focus on Wonderful - Fixed Focal Lens Photography】1 Track Special Award: RF50mm F1.8 STM with a market value of 1399 yuan
*If the award is won, the list of winners will be announced on the official website of Hummingbird, official WeChat and other channels, and Hummingbird will contact the winners before/after the announcement of the award to check the original information, and the bonus/prize will be issued within one to two months after the announcement of the award. If the event organizer is unable to contact the winning user within the validity period due to the participant's personal reasons (including but not limited to the participant's failure to provide true and valid information), the winning user will be deemed to have voluntarily given up the prize.
*The above prizes are set by the organizer and the organizer to bear the individual income tax. In accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, if the organizer and the organizer need to withhold and pay individual income tax on the income of the winning participants under this competition, the organizer and the organizer have the right to withhold and pay it in accordance with the law.
【Competition Judges】
FENDER Hi Wolf
Columnist of National Geographic of China
National Geographic contributor
Contracted photographer of Visual China
Collaborative photographer with the United Nations Development Programme
Lv Xiaoxin
Gold Medal Lecturer of Hummingbird Micro Classroom
Dive photographer
Travel photographer
Photographic equipment evaluator
The original album Han Song
photographer
Founder of Original Album Studio
Winner of the IPPA Gold Award in the Personality Category
彦彬Trent
Portrait photographer
【Event Rules】
Organizer of this event: Canon (China) Co., Ltd
Call for Papers:
1. Entries must be taken around the theme of the competition, and the entries must be taken with a full-frame camera to be eligible for the award.
2. The shooting time of the entries must be after January 1, 2023, otherwise they will not be shortlisted;
3. Please upload a high-definition large image without watermark for your entries, adding a watermark may affect the selection result;
4. Entries can be submitted as single sheets or group pictures, please indicate the name of the work, description of the work, shooting time, location and other basic information;
5. The content of the entries shall not involve violence, pornography, defamation of society, religious taboos and other content not permitted by law, and shall not violate public order and good customs, otherwise the works will not be evaluated;
6. Participants must ensure the authenticity of the submitted information and the originality of the entries, and shall not plagiarize, copy, counterfeit, remake, etc., if you submit false information or steal other people's works, you will be disqualified from the competition, and the participants shall bear the corresponding consequences;
7. Entrants can make appropriate post-production adjustments to the works (including stacking, HDR, and stitching using the same sequence of photos), but they are not allowed to perform operations such as pure post-compositing images;
8. Entries must be in JPG format, the maximum file size of a single photo is not more than 20M, the uploaded work must retain the original EXIF information, and the author must be able to provide the original picture and original file of the work, otherwise the competition party will not be allowed to participate in the competition or the competition has the right to cancel the qualification of the work;
9. The same work cannot be submitted repeatedly. Duplicate entries will be disqualified from the competition at the discretion of the organizer, or they may only be selected on the platform designated by the organizer.
10. Entrants should also abide by the corresponding rules of their submission platform.
11. Those who violate the rules of this event will be disqualified, and the organizer has the right to recover the prizes if they have already received the prizes.
12. Entrants shall not participate in this event or use this event to engage in illegal acts by any improper means or fraudulent means. Once discovered, the organizer has the right to take measures such as disqualifying the winner, recovering the prize, and also has the right to withdraw the reward that the participant has received, and reserves the right to hold the participant responsible.
Equity considerations
1. Before participating in this event, participants are requested to read the rules and related terms of the event in detail. By participating in this event, participants are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to all the rules of the event.
2. Entrants guarantee that they have independent, complete, clear and undisputed copyright rights (including personal rights and property rights) for their entries, and are the only legal copyright owners of their entries. Entrants shall ensure that the works submitted by them do not infringe any legitimate rights and interests of any third party, including copyright, portrait right, reputation right, privacy right, trademark right, etc. In the event of any dispute arising from the participant's breach of the foregoing warranty, the participant shall bear all the consequences of infringement and compensation, and the participant shall be fully liable for all losses caused to the organizer and its related parties in this event due to related issues.
3. Entrants guarantee that they have permanent copyrights for their entries, and entrants acknowledge that once the submission is successful, it is deemed that the entrants irrevocably authorize and authorize the event organizer and its affiliates, partners and submission platforms to exercise the rights of information network dissemination, reproduction, compilation and other rights of the entries on a global scale for non-exclusive purposes during the event period (February 7, 2024 - May 15, 2024). At the same time, the participant authorizes the event organizer, its affiliates, partners and the submission platform to add the corporate logo and the event business logo to the entries and other rights necessary for the purpose of promoting the event. After the expiration of the Event, the Event Organizer, its affiliates, partners and the Submission Platform are not required to remove or delete the content of the promotional materials published using the entries in accordance with this Rule.
4. For the award-winning works, the award-winning entrants irrevocably authorize the organizer and its affiliates, partners and submission platforms to have the right to non-exclusively exercise the copyrighted property rights and copyright-related rights of the award-winning works worldwide, including but not limited to the right of modification of the award-winning works, the right of information network dissemination, the right of reproduction, the right of adaptation, the right of compilation, etc., for commercial and non-commercial purposes for commercial and non-commercial purposes. At the same time, the event organizer and its affiliates, partners and submission platform are authorized to have the right to reproduce, copy, adapt, compile, exhibit, distribute, print, display, publish, and make derivative works of the award-winning works for commercial or non-commercial purposes, and enjoy all the rights necessary to add corporate logos and event commercial logos to the entries and other purposes necessary for publicity and promotion activities. After the expiration of the authorization period, the organizer, its affiliates, partners and the submission platform are not required to remove or delete the content (including but not limited to promotional materials) published by the entries using this rule.
5. During the solicitation period, the use and display of entries by the event organizer, its affiliates, partners and the solicitation platform does not represent the final selection result of the entries, and the final selection and award-winning rules are subject to the information published on the solicitation platform. All entrants, event organizers and their affiliates, partners, etc., will be deemed to have acquiesced to this rule.
6. Handling of personal information
1) Entrants should ensure that the portrait rights holder (personal information subject) of the submitted photos has consented to their participation in this event and provide the photos containing their portraits to the event organizers;
2) For the winning works, the rules of this event will be followed
3) In order to mail the prizes to the winning entrants, the event organizer collects, stores and uses the receiving information (including the recipient's name, mobile phone number and receiving address) of the winning entrants through the submission platform. If the winning participant is unable to provide personal information or the information provided is not true and valid, the winner will not be able to claim the corresponding prize. The organizer of the event will take appropriate measures to ensure the security of personal information and delete the relevant personal information within a reasonable period after the distribution of the prizes for this event is completed.
4) If you have any questions or comments about the processing of personal information of the event organizer, you can contact the event organizer through the submission platform.
5) The processing of personal information and the protection of rights and interests of the platform will be carried out in accordance with its privacy policy.
6) By participating in this event or providing relevant personal information to the event organizer, the participant shall be deemed to have read and agreed to the aforesaid personal information processing rules.
7. The organizer operates the contest in accordance with the law, and if the contest is adjusted, suspended, unable to be held, or the contest fails due to force majeure, change of circumstances, changes in relevant policies and third-party reasons, or the contest fails, the organizer has the right to decide to modify, suspend, cancel or terminate the contest at any time, and does not need to bear any legal responsibility for this. If the participant fails to participate due to his or her own reasons, the adverse consequences shall be borne by the participant.
8. Matters not covered in these rules shall be supplemented by Canon (China) Co., Ltd. in accordance with the principle of good faith.