Monthly
Competitions
The club holds monthly
competitions that are contests
between individual members of
the club. There are seven monthly
competitions throughout the season,
with collections on the first
Monday of the month and judging
on the last Monday of the month
from September to April. There
are two separate competitions,
one for prints and one for digital
projected images. Within each
of these, entries may be in the
OPEN category or the THEME category
if there is one (see programme
for details of dates and themes).
Members may
submit up to two prints and two
digital images per month to the
Competition Secretary on the notified
date (see programme) or by special
arrangement with the Competition
Secretary at another time. Digital
images can be submitted on club
evenings on USB stick or CD/DVD
or by e-mail to the Competition
Secretary: intcompsec@bridgendcameraclub.co.uk.
Each member
has the potential of gaining marks
for up to 14 entries in the print
and digital competitions (up to
2dpi and 2 print entries per month
for 7 months). The highest 10
marks will be added together and
the member with the highest aggregate
score will win the yearly competition.
Open and themed categories will
be totalled separately within
the print and digital competitions.
Each piece of work will be awarded
marks out of 20 and be commented
on in a constructive manner.
Annual
Mono Competition
This competition is held in May
each year. Members may enter up
to three monochrome prints and
three monochrome digital images.
Each piece of work will be awarded
marks out of 20 and be commented
on in a constructive manner. No
theme is intended nor should any
marks be awarded for any theme.
Print and digital competitions
will be judged separately.
Competition
Codes
Competition codes are issued to
each member by the Competition
Secretary. They are in the form
of a three-digit number. All entries
MUST include the member’s
competition code.
Preparation
of Digital Images
All digital images for club competitions
should be sized to a maximum of
1024x768 pixels, set to 300ppi
and saved using the JPEG format.
The filename should take the form
of the image title followed by:
*
the member's three-digit club
competition code
* “open” or “theme”
to indicate which category the
image is being entered for
* a preference indicator (1, 2
or 3) - see the Total Club Entry
section below for more information.
This gives a
filename in the format: title
code# open preference#.jpg
or title code# theme preference#.jpg
For example:
The member whose competition code
is 986 has three digital entries
with titles “my best photo”,
“a great image” and
“an ok picture”. The
first of these is for the open
section and the other two are
for the theme section. If images
have to be removed due to the
total quota being exceeded (see
Total Club Entry section below),
the member wants “an ok
picture” to be removed first,
followed by “a great image”.
The files would be named as follows:
my
best photo 968 open 1.jpg
a
great image 968 theme 2.jpg
an
ok picture 968 theme 3.jpg
Preparation
of Prints
Prints must be mounted. The preferred
size for mounts is 40cmx50cm.
16"x20" mounts will
also be accepted for internal
competitions but note that most
external competitions require
mounts to be 40cmx50cm. The Competition
Secretary can cut 16"x20"
mounts to 40cmx50cm if they are
required for external competitions
(but only with the agreement of
the print owner). There is no
restriction on the image size
within the mount. Any tape on
the rear of the mount should be
firmly adhered to the mount to
prevent damage to other prints.
The rear of
each print must be labelled with:
*
a title
* the member's three-digit club
competition code
* “open” or “theme”
to indicate which category the
image is being entered for
* a preference indicator (1, 2
or 3) - see the Total Club Entry
section below for more information.
Total
Club Entry
The total number of print and
digital entries from all members
will not be allowed to exceed
90 in any given month. If more
than 90 entries are received the
Competition Secretary will need
to remove some entries from the
total. To allow for this possibility,
each print and digital entry MUST
include a preference indicator
1, 2 or 3. If it is necessary
to remove entries then those marked
3 will be removed first, followed
by those marked 2.
Rejection
of Prints or Digital Images
The
Competition Secretary may refuse
to accept prints or digital images
that do not meet the criteria
specified above.
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