Salon Exhibition 2025

2025 Salon Information

APS Salon Exhibition for 2025

For many decades, the Atlanta Photographic Society (APS) has held an annual Salon Exhibition of framed prints by our members. To see what it's like please view last year's 2024 Salon Exhibition winners at Salon Gallery 2024.

For 2025 our Salon show will be in-person -- framed images in a gallery setting. The show will be in the 1st floor Gallery at First Baptist Church of Decatur. Thus, our images will be seen by a constant stream of visitors to the church.

NEW: Our annual Salon Exhibition and Competition is now open to nonmembers as well as members of APS. The Salon is an opportunity for photographers to share their best images with the general public and club members.

Best in Show: 2024 Salon - Me and Mom by Mike Shaefer

Dates and Deadlines

Here are the important dates and deadlines for the 2025 Salon Exhibition.

Entry of Images: opens September 3, 2025, and closes September 26, 2025 at midnight ET

Image Submission/Payment Window: Now thru September 26, 2025, Midnight.

Salon Webpage Live: TBD, after Awards/Reception.

Gallery Hanging: Saturday September 27, 2025 11am. Please deliver your images promptly, and volunteer to help hang them if you can.

Three judges from outside the club will judge the images and award ribbons (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM's) in both the color and monochrome categories.

Reception & Awards: Saturday, October 18, 7:30pm.

Take Down: Saturday November 8, 2025: 11am. Please volunteer to help with take down if you can.

Rules and Image Submission

1. There will be two categories: Color and Monochrome.

2. Entrants are required to upload a digital version of their print entry for each image entered.

3. Digital versions must be 1920 pixels max (wide or tall), resolution of 300 dpi, and be saved at a high jpg quality of 8 to 12 (For example: 800 kb to around 1.2 mb is acceptable).

4. How to prepare your prints for the exhibit? See Framed Print Presentation Guidelines on this page.

5. Entry Fees: APS Members $30 with up to five entries. Nonmembers $15 per image for first two entries. $10 per entry thereafter. Maximum of five entries.

6. Any image that received a ribbon in a previous APS Salon will not be eligible.

7. The total number of entries will be limited. If applicable, APS member entries will have priority over nonmember entries.

8. Can I sell my images? Yes you can. The asking price will be included on the label provided to you.

8. All photographic elements must have been created by the maker. No stock or AI images will be allowed.

9. All processing, manipulation, and rendering must be done by the entrant.

10. Any entry that has been created from an existing photograph, portrait, graphic or any other artwork produced by another person is a violation of the competition rules.

11. For verification purposes, all ribbon winning entries will be required to provide a raw camera file for each image (No AI will be allowed)

12. No third-party imagery or stock photography is allowed. Non-photographic filters and actions produced by third parties that enhance characteristics of an image but do not add third party elements to an image are permitted

13. Composites (combining elements from two or more of your images) are permitted.

14. If the image is a composite, the word 'composite' must be noted in both the digital and print version of your image.

15. Winning images will be determined by a panel of three highly qualified judges.

16. Winning images (Best in Show / First, Second, Third, and HM per category) will receive a ribbon and certificate of accomplishment. Winners will also be highlighted on our award winning club website atlantaphotographic.org

17. Cash Prizes will be awarded. Note: The amount, distribution, and which ribbon winning images will receive a cash prize will depend on the total amount of currency collected from entry fees.

To Enter:

Pay entry fee by credit card or PayPal at this link.

Next, Send your images by email to Mike Shaefer at:

mike5467425@gmail.com.

Please see #3 above for image specifications, and make sure to include the image title and your name as in this example:

The Colorful Garden by Mike Shaefer.jpg

Questions

Please direct any questions to the Salon 2025 coordinator, Mike Shaefer.

1st Place Color - Golden Hour by Stephen Mathera

Framed Print Presentation Guidelines

Entries must be mounted, matted (white or pastel colors), glassed (glass or plastic/acrylic), framed and delivered ready to hang. The minimum frame size is 11" x 14" with no reasonable maximum. We do not recommend very small (e.g., 5 x 7 in) or very large (much greater than 16 x 20 in) images.

All quality frames are acceptable. Plain black frames suitable for gallery style presentation and approximately 1" wide (or less) are preferred. Canvas prints, images printed on metal or wood, or bonded to the back of a sheet of acrylic, do not need to be framed, but all images must meet the “hanging” requirements.

Ready to hang means - All entries must have one hook on each side on the back of the frame, and a wire connecting those hooks, suitable for the gallery's hanging system.

Ready to Hang also means - On the back indicate: Title, Color/Mono, Photographer, and an Arrow for up direction.

Labeling and Entry Information

Every image entered must be labeled on the back with the title, category (B&W or Color) the photographer’s name and an arrow pointing to the top of the entry.

Additional image information must be provided to the Exhibition Chair (through the Salon Entry & Payment Button on the Members Page) by the specified date. This includes Photographer, Title, Category (B&W of Color) and Selling Price (or value if “Not for Sale”) for all entries. A selling price for the image will be included on the ID card so that the entry can be sold to the public (minus commission by the gallery).

All entries will be examined by the Exhibition Chair/Committee prior to hanging for compliance with the rules, subject of good taste, and quality of mounting, matting and framing. The committee reserves the right to reject or grant acceptance to any entry not in compliance with the rules.