Competition Rules

Monthly Club Competition Rules

Club member competitions are held during the club season at approximately monthly intervals as shown in the programme.

Currently we have two sections or grades for Intermediate Workers and Advanced Workers. New members may select which level they compete in. An advanced worker cannot enter work into the Intermediate Section unless agreed by the committee. The winner of the Intermediate Section must move into the Advanced Section.

Each competition will have 3 classes:- Monochrome Prints i.e. One continuous tone with no more than one other colour, Colour Prints, Digital Projected Images.

Each member may enter up to 3 pieces of work in each of the above classes. All entries are to be made on the appropriate entry list provided by the Competition Secretary, spreading out your work where possible. Entries are to be submitted by the published date unless agreed by Exhibition Secretary, (Terry Wall).

All prints to have a completed competition label on the back showing ” image title, date, class , i.e.

“ the boy, 1/4/2011, advanced mono”

The maximum size of entry, including mount is 20 inches by 16 inches (40 x 50 cm).

Digital entries are to be supplied in a jpeg format :- maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels, this includes Portraits. Images to be saved with entry number 1, 2, 3, an image title and authors name maximum. Images to be submitted in a folder named :- authors name, competition entry for eg. 28/09/2009. Entries pre-sized, (See below) and a jpeg, then e-mailed in a folder to the Exhibitition Secretary, (Terry Wall).

ALL PRINTS AND IMAGES ARE SUBMITTED AT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS OWN RISK. ALTHOUGH ALL REASONABLE CARE WILL BE TAKEN, THE FODCC AND MEMBERS CANNOT ACCEPT LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF OR DAMAGE OCCURRING TO, ANY ENTRIES, WHETHER IN TRANSIT OF WHIST IN THE KEEPING IF MEMBERS OR DURING ANY EXHIBITION. SUBMISSION OF AN ENTRY IMPLIES APPETENCE OF THE ABOVE REGULATIONS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLUB INSURANCES DOES NOT EXTEND TO MEMBERS PRINTS OR IMAGES.

Digital, Audio Visual Competitions will be held twice during the season. The marks awarded will count towards the photographer of the year award. These AVs are to be self executable with a maximum length of 6 minutes. Entries are to be in PC friendly .mov format using programs such as Pictures to Exe or ProShow Gold. Members may submit maximum of 2 entries. Presentations can show a title but not the author’s name. Digital image sizes as noted above. Scoring will be 1^st 6 points, 2^nd 5 points, 3^rd 4 points, HC 3 points, C 2 points, unplaced entries will be awarded 1 point.

Scoring for the Monthly Club Competition League Tables will be, 1^st 6 points, 2^nd 5 points, 3^rd 4 points, HC 3 points, C 2 points, unplaced entries will be awarded 1 point. For aggregate league table scores the 2 highest scores only will be counted.

A piece of work can be entered into a competition and an end of the year awards competition only once.

Trophies awarded to member with highest section score at the end of the season

The Roberts Cup - Advanced Monochrome Prints
The Graham Ward Trophy – Advanced Colour Prints
The John Knight Award - Advanced Projected Image
The Chairmans Trophy - Intermediate Monochrome Prints
The Challenge Cup - Intermediate Colour Prints
The Hughes Cup – Intermediate Projected Image
The Ron Beddis Trophy – AV annual champion.
Photographer of the year – Member with the highest aggregate total of points.

The Annual Awards Competition Rules

The Annual Awards Competition is a separate open one section competition with 3 classes as above. Entries can be from previous monthly competitions or new work. The objective is to find the best work for the following awards. Each member may enter a maximum of 3 pieces of work in each of:-

1. Monochrome Prints, 2. Colour Prints, 3. Digital Projected Image.

Trophies awarded

The Howson Cup - Best Monochrome Print
The Mary Weech Rose Bowl – Best Colour Print
The Conway Trophy – Best Projected Image
The Brenda Baker Trophy – Best Digital Creative Print
The Cardale Cup – Best Human Portrait (print or projected image)
The Hooper Cup – Best Projected Image Slide (not in use)

13^th May 2011
Andy Williams
Club Secretary

Entry instructions for digital files

All images will be Projected in landscape format 1024 pixels x 768 pixels.
All images entered should be within these dimensions i.e. A maximum 1024 pixels wide x 768 pixels high. Portraits format images will therefore not exceed 768 pixels high. Images smaller than one of the maxima will be projected with a black border.
Add each image into a Folder with entrant’s name.
Each image will be Titled numerically then a space then the images title followed by .(.DOT) then entrants name e.g. 1 TITLE.NAME.jpg (No dashes,underscore, etc. between number and title please) Images to be saved in sRGB colourspace

If you have a problem with resizing your images a very quick way is to use Fit Image in Photoshop.
How to: In Photoshop go to File > Automate > Fit Image
In width type 1024 in Height type 768 Click OK. Done.

These settings will re-size Vertical and Horizontal without changing changing height and width settings.

All D.I. entries this year must be sent via email.

I am not accepting entries on CD or memory sticks.

Entries can be sent any time in the prior to the closing date.