FERNDOWN CAMERA CLUB
COMPETITION RULES
Summer 2018
GENERAL
Club Competitions are open only to fully paid-up
members of Ferndown Camera Club. In all
competitions, both internal and external, the member must have taken the
photograph and have produced all component parts of any image, whether printed
or projected. The print or image should
not be more than five years old.
Prints or Images (or those so similar as to be
loosely identical) entered in a previous internal competition cannot be
re-entered in future internal competitions.
However, an entry previously submitted as a projected image can be
re-entered as a print and vice versa.
Normally, a set subject will be agreed for one of
the internal competitions every season (see the programme for details).
CLASSES
There are three classes for internal competitions. They are Intermediate, Advanced and
Premier. Each class will be judged
separately. The Intermediate class is
for most new members. Experienced
photographers joining from other clubs may elect to join the Advanced
class if deemed appropriate. Points
systems apply to all classes, as detailed below.
INTERMEDIATE
Members in the Intermediate class will be awarded
points as follows:
The Competition Secretary will keep a record to
determine when any member in the intermediate class reaches 15 points. They will then join the Advanced
class from the following new season.
ADVANCED
Members in the Advanced
class will have their scores awarded by judges in the four annual club
competitions each season totalled. The
two members with the highest score will be promoted to the Premier class. All other members of the Advanced
class will remain. There is no
relegation to Intermediate class.
PREMIER
The establishment of the Premier class for the 2018-19
season will involve the six top-scoring members of the
Advanced class over the previous three years.
From then on, the two top-scoring members of the Advanced class will be promoted at the end of each
season. At the same time, the two
members of the Premier class with the lowest scores will be relegated to the Advanced class. Six
is the maximum number of members of the Premier class at all times. The plan is to encourage members to maintain
the highest standards of photography, and give Advanced
members a new target to reach for.
PRINT COMPETITION SPECIFICS
Print entries must be in good condition, including
the mount. Adhesive tape used in the
mounting process must be strong enough to keep the mount and photograph
together. The club can supply suitable
masking tape for the job.
Prints must carry the following information (on the
back of the prints):
·
Your Name
·
The title of the print (keep titles short) (a title
is mandatory)
·
(INT) or (ADV) or (PREM) to show the class being entered.
In internal competitions, members may enter a
maximum of 2 prints or 2 projected images in the Advanced and Premier classes,
and 3 prints or 3 projected images in the Intermediate class. This rule is to
allow the judge sufficient time to give constructive comments on all entries. Should the number of entries become
excessive, the committee reserves the right to reduce the number of entries per
member.
Entries may be colour and/or monochrome. Prints may be home or commercially produced.
The minimum size of prints is 18cm by 13cm (7” x
5”). Prints must be mounted on stiff board
not exceeding 50cm by 40cm (20″ x 16″).
Entries must be submitted to the Competition
Secretary by the date published in the programme, which will normally be the
meeting immediately prior to the competition meeting, or as otherwise notified.
INTER-CLUB COMPETITIONS
Members’ prints/images may be retained for
consideration for use in inter-club competitions. A selection committee will choose entries to
represent the club for the particular inter-club competition.
PROJECTED
DIGITAL IMAGE (PDI) COMPETITION SPECIFICS
The maximum number of entries per member for PDI
competitions is the same as for prints.
The submitted image must have been taken by the
member using a digital camera; or taken by the member on a film camera, and the
resultant image scanned and saved as a digital file. All composite parts of the image must be the
work of the member.
Submitted images must be in JPEG (JPG) format only,
and preferably with sRGB colour space (latter not
compulsory). This meets the SAPA PDI
Rules.
Each photo image submitted must be maximum 1400
pixels wide x maximum 1050 pixels high. Note that these are maxima: a
“letterbox” image can be less than 1050 pixels high, but vertical (portrait)
images are still subject to the maximum 1050 pixels high. This conforms with SAPA rules. For full details on PDI sizes, see the separate
information sheet.
Entries must be submitted to the Competition
Secretary (or other appointed person, as advised) by the date published in the
programme, which will normally be the meeting immediately prior to the competition
meeting, or as otherwise notified.
Images may be submitted on Memory Stick, or by E-mail to the Competition Secretary or as
advised. The medium used should contain only
the files being submitted for the competition.
The submission deadline rule still applies to E-mail submissions.
The FILE Name of each submitted photo file must be in the
following format:
·
Photo Title (concise); underscore; Member’s
Initials; underscore; competition date in the style DDMMYY.
·
Example: Dawn
on the Common_MJS_220418
Please note that
a proper, concise title for the image is mandatory.
Submitted Memory Sticks must carry the following information, either on the surface of the
Memory Stick, or attached to it:
·
Member’s name (all names if more than one)
·
INT, ADV or PREM to show which class you are entering.
Memory sticks
will be returned to the owner.
© Ferndown Camera Club 2018