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1 GENERAL
1.1 It is expected that contemporary work should be
submitted for all competitions including the Annual
Exhibition of Prints and Slides.
1.2 Material entered for each competition must be
new to that competition.
1.3 Trade or home processed prints and slides are
acceptable to all Society competitions.
1.4 Any competition (Advanced and Novice) must have
more than one entrant to be valid. If there is only
one entry, this will be withdrawn from the competition
by the Competition Secretary, but can be re-entered
in a later round of the competition.
1.5 Any member (except for new members, who are exempt)
wishing to enter the Annual Exhibition of Prints and
Slides must have entered at least one of the earlier
rounds of the print and slide competitions.
2 DEFINITIONS
2.1 An image with 2 or more colours (not including
black & white) is classed as a colour entry for
competition purposes.
2.2 An image with only one colour (not including black
& white) is classed as a monochrome image.
2.3 An image with only black & white is classed
as a black & white image.
2.4 A digital image is defined as input processed
digitally whether by way of a digital camera or by
scanning of film or film derived print.
N.B. A monochrome competition can include both mono
and black & white images.
3 PRINT COMPETITIONS
3.1 Black & White, Monochrome and Colour prints
are eligible.
3.2 The maximum print size is 16" by 12"
(406x305mm). Note A3 size is 420x297mm).
3.3 Prints should be suitably mounted; minimum mount
size 10” by 8” (254x203mm), maximum mount size 20"
by 16" (508x406mm).
3.4 The title of the print and the author’s membership
number with the prefix ‘N’ for Novice or ‘A’ for Advanced
(as appropriate) shall be on the reverse side of the
mounting board, correct way up.
3.5 A novice worker who wins the Annual Print competition
becomes an advanced worker from the following season
in both print and digital competitions.
4 DIGITAL COMPETITIONS
4.1 Images for this competition shall be produced
as defined in Definition 2.4 and viewed by digital
projection and/or computer monitor.
4.2 Black & White, Monochrome and Colour images
are eligible.
4.3 Where used, borders will be taken as part of the
image. Text e.g. title must not be entered in the
border area.
4.4 All entries must have originated as a photograph/s
taken by the entrant and the entrant must have made
any subsequent digital manipulation. The final image
must have significant photographic content.
4.5 All images must be submitted as a digital file
by one of the following methods; DVD, CD or Memory
Stick.
4.6 Each image file shall be identified in the following
manner :-
“A” for advanced or “N” for novice; membership number;
image number (00 to 10); title.
i.e. A061707 Flight of the bumble bee.
In this example the prefix A denotes an ‘Advanced’
worker whose membership number is 0617, the image
number is 07 (ensure the zero is included for numbers
between 1 and 9), followed by the image title.
4.7 All images shall be in sRGB colour space and JPEG
format with all layers flattened or merged with a
maximum horizontal dimension of 1024 pixels and a
maximum vertical dimension of 768 pixels.
4.8 A novice worker who wins the Annual Digital competition
becomes an advanced worker from the following season
in digital and prints.
5 SLIDE COMPETITION
5.1 It is recommended that slides submitted for competitions
should be in glass mounts.
5.2 Slides from film and/or digital originals are
eligible for all slide competitions.
5.3 Slides must be correctly spotted for projection.
(Looking at the slide, right way up, the spot should
be on the bottom left hand corner.)
5.4 Slides must be titled and show the authors current
membership number.
6 ADVANCED/NOVICE STATUS
6.1 The status of a new member will be confirmed by
the committee upon joining the Society.
6.2 The committee may ask for details of previous
work and submissions to other competitions or organisations
and the results to assist them.
6.3 If necessary, the committee may ask for a portfolio
of work to be submitted for consideration.
6.4 Promotion to the Advanced section will be by winning
the appropriate Novice section of the Print or Digital
Annual Competitions.
6.5 Members wishing to proceed to the Advanced section
may submit a portfolio of their work to the committee,
for their consideration.
This portfolio should consist of ten slides, ten prints
or ten digital images, eight of which must be of ‘advanced’
standard.
The work should meet the usual competition rules.
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