Entries are accepted online as digital images. The entries will be judged online in a preelimination round to determine the top 25 images in each of the 7 categories. There are 4 wedding categories and 3 portrait categories in the competition, and all images judged online will receive feedback from the judges.
The top 175 finalist images will be printed and mounted expertly by Epson. These prints will be hung on display in the "Epson Creative Asia Gallery" during the Creative Asia Conference. These 175 finalist images will be judged live by our panel of experts on January 19th 2011, from 8:30am – 4:00pm.
The whole judging event will be broadcast live online with video and audio of the judging panel, judges scores, image previews and interactive audience chat. Entrants can experience from their own location, the insight and education that comes from watching a live judging event.
In the final judging round there will be 4 judges and the original online category score will act as the 5th judge with the 5 scores will be averaged to produce the final score for each image. The 4 judges will not know or be able to see the original online score.