SDCC
Internal Competitions Information & Rules for 2011 - 2012
Entry is up to 3 Prints and/or Digital images.
The top image, digital or print wins the trophy
This competition consists of three separate but
identical competitions held over the current season.
Entry for each of the 3 competitions is up to 3 Prints
and/or Digital images.
The Club League Print Trophy is awarded to the member with the highest
total score from six out of the possible maximum of nine prints entered in the
3 League competitions.
The Club League Digital Trophy is awarded to the member with the highest
total score from six out of the possible maximum of nine digital images entered
in the 3 League competitions.
The Club League Mono Print Cup Introduced to encourage members to enter mono prints
in the club league print competitions and provide more mono prints for external
competitions.
As part of the three league competitions this trophy
will be awarded to the member with the highest score from three mono prints out
of the maximum of nine prints entered in the 3 League competitions.
Annual
Print Cup entry is up to 3 Prints. The top print will receive the trophy
Annual
Digital Cup entry is up to 3 Digital images. The top digital image will
receive the trophy
The following general rules apply to the
above competitions.
Entries may be on any subject, but any image considered offensive would be
excluded.
There is only one grade of entry, which will operate
for both Print and Digital Entries.
All
images, including substantially similar cannot have been used previously in any
of the above competitions.
The
exception to this rule is the Annual competition where one previously entered
print can be re-entered in the Annual print competition and one previously
entered digital image can be re-entered in the Annual Digital competition.
Should
the number of entries in any competition significantly exceed a combined total
of 100 images it may be necessary to drop your 3rd entry so always
make sure it is your weakest.
All entries and forms must be handed in or emailed to the
competition secretary 2 weeks prior to the competition
Prints can be of any size up to the metric size of 40cm x 50cm and preferably
mounted with the title and membership number only on the back. For gallery hanging, print mounts must be
40cm x 50cm to fit in the club frames.
Digital images should be JPEG/JPG files no larger than 1MB. With
dimensions of 1400 horizontal pixels max. and 1050
vertical pixels max. and sRGB
colour space. Further information on resizing your
images for competitions is on the club web site and remember that images the
wrong size or format may suffer from loss of quality or even fail to project at
all.
The file name must contain the title and authors
membership number and can be on CD or Emailed. Please do not use compression
packages like WinZip.
An entry form should be completed with your photo titles and name
as you want to see them appear on the score sheets and emailed to the
competition secretary.
Score
Sheets are sorted alphabetically so think about the first letter of your
image title and make sure the image title and file name are the same. Titles that are larger than 25 characters may get truncated
in the score sheets.
Rule Enforcement: problems or infringement of the rules should be
brought to the competition secretary’s attention as soon as possible for
guidance and solution. His decision and action will be final.
Damage:
all care will be taken but S&DCC cannot be responsible for any
loss or damage to member’s entries.
On competition nights the external judge will be requested whenever
possible to follow S&DCC’s preferred evening plan with prints being judged
first followed by the Digital images allowing time for print viewing during our
coffee break.
The judge will provide constructive comments on all
the entries and award score points out of 20.
He
will generally be requested to provide a clear winner plus 2nd and 3rd places
that will be held back and viewed as the final 3 images. The winning 3 prints
plus a further 5 will be selected making a total of 8 prints, which will be
eligible for hanging in the gallery.
Judges are volunteers who are
experienced amateur or professional photographers and are often members of
other camera clubs in the area. They are familiar with the rules for entries,
undergo training as judges and do their best to provide an informative and
constructive assessment of the pros and cons of each entry. Like all of us,
their assessments are to a certain extent subjective, and this may explain why
good entries that meet all the rules may receive different assessments and
awards. Some judges are more adept at discussing the artistic merits and
weaknesses of an image, while others are fussy about seemingly minor technical
'flaws'. It is important to remember that the opinion presented by the judge is
a single opinion. Different judges can and do have varying opinions on the same
image. We are very fortunate that these individuals take the time to travel
here and spend an evening at the club, helping us all improve our photographic
skills.
Use
of Images: We ask that members who enter internal S&DCC
competitions will allow S&DCC to use their digital images and prints for
the web site, external competitions, or other activities that S&DCC may be
involved in. Copyright of photographs will always remain with the photographer.
We will assume that you are agreeable to this unless you advise us otherwise.
Help
and information on any of the above will be available on club nights, the club
syllabus and web site.
Tom
Forrest
Competition
Secretary