Competition Information:

Print Competition Secretary : Rod Lamb
Digital Projected Image Secretary : Mike Hepden

Competitions for the 2017/18 season:
 

Oct 4th	Open Subject. Prints	Hand in Sept 20th
Nov 8th	Scapes: Land, Sea, City etc. DPI	Hand in Oct 25th
Nov 22nd	5 Print Challenge	Hand in Nov 8th
Dec 6th	Shadows and Silhouettes. Prints	Hand in Nov 22nd
Jan 24th	People and/or Other Animals. DPI	Hand in Jan 8th (Monday)
Feb 14th	Open Subject. Prints	Hand in Jan 31st
Mar 7th	Seasons/Weather DPI	Hand in Feb 21st
April 11th	Annual Open. Prints	Hand in March 28th
April 25th	Annual Open. DPI	Hand in April 11th

NB: The maximum permitted number of entries for each competition is three per member per competition. EITHER two colour and one monochrome, OR two monochrome and one colour - your choice. If entering two please label your entries one and two in order of preference. If there are too many entries for a competition number two will be taken out.

Digital projected images should be Jpegs with a pixel size of 1024 width x 768 height. (Portrait images must not exceed 768 pixels high). Colour profile should be sRGB. Title each image as "image numbertitle.jpeg, eg an image titled Summer Morning would be as follows: 1 Summer Morning.jpeg Put your images in separate folders for colour or monochrome, and label each folder as Your NameC or Your NameM, for example John Smith C (for colour images) and John Smith M (for monochrome). Images can be submitted on memory stick or disk to the digital projected image secretary, Mike Hepden. (Please note that images can no longer be submitted by e-mail). Images must be accompanied by a correctly filled in entry form. (Click link at bottom of page for an entry form). Images incorrectly sized or titled or not accompanied by an entry form, or not entered by the due date will not be entered in the competition. (For re-sizing information see the link on the 'Rules' page.)

Print entries should be mounted on stiff card or mount board. They can be flush mounted or window mounted. The maximum mount size permitted in our internal competitions is 500mm x 400mm, (in line with most external exhibitions and competitions). You can mount your pictures in whatever size mounts you wish up to the maximum, however most members use the maximum, as whatever the size of your picture the larger mount helps show them off to their best. It also minimises the possibilty of damage to your prints and other members prints when packed together in the box. Please use good quality tape to attach your prints to the mount, (no sellotape, and not cheap quality masking tape which can peel off and damage other prints). Picture framer's tape is ideal, (available from Keith Sharples for £3 a roll). The club has a mount cutter available for any member to borrow, ask Ian Binns (treasurer)  if you would like to use it. Prints should have the title on the back at the top of the print, (indicating the right way up), and, if entering two, number one or two in order of preference, and NO OTHER INFORMATION, ie no names, exhibition acceptance labels etc. Entries must be given to the print competition secretary, Rod Lamb, on the due date accompanied by a correctly filled in entry form, (click link at bottom of page for entry form).


Judges will award placings in each competition of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, highly commended and commended. Points are awarded for each placing. (1st - 5 points, 2nd - 4 points, 3rd - 3 points, HC - 2 points, C - 1 point). At the end of the season trophies are awarded to the members who have accumulated the most points in each section.

Any entry that does not win a placing, (1st, 2nd, 3rd, HC or C), in a competition may be entered on one further occasion into a subsequent competition. Any entry that wins a placing, (1st, 2nd, 3rd, HC or C), in a competition cannot be entered into future competitions. The exception to this is for the annual open competitions when any image can be entered whether or not it has won an award previously. However an image can be entered into one annual open only, ie if it has been entered in the print annual open it must not be entered into the digital annual open, (and vice versa).

Monochrome entries must be black and white, or with one overall tone. Images with one localised colour are deemed to be colour images.


From time to time the club does a group order of mountboard from our sponsor Paper Spectrum who will give us a 10% discount if the order is big enough. Please ask Keith Sharples if you are interested.

Keith will also cut windows to the size you require (small charge applies). This will be a one week turnaround from one meeting to the next.

Picture Framer's tape is available from Keith at £3 a roll.



To download competition entry form click the link:
Competition Entry Form

For full competition rules click the link:
Competition Rules


Tips: for re-sizing images for club DPI Competitions.

In Photoshop go to File - Automate - Fit Image - type in 1024 x 768 and it will automatically resize for portrait or landscape.
 
You will only need to change the pixels if you have to resize for different projectors.
 
For Elements users,  (this works on Elements 13, not sure about 14 or 15) go to File - Automate - fit image - type in the pixels you require  1024 x 768 and it will hold the sizes until you change it.  Again it will automatically size for portrait or landscape.  

Please note: our software for running competitions is fully automated if the photos are delivered in the correct format. In order to help the competition secretary you can name your files and size your files correctly. If you do not name and size the correctly they are rejected by the software. The following download will give you guidance on the correct format to submit your entries.
DPI Guidance