PETERBOROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
ANNUAL EXHIBITION RULES
2009 – 2010 Season
The exhibition will consist of mounted prints and projected images; the latter being either slide or digital. A number of competitions are integral to the exhibition and trophies and awards apply to each category. The categories are; Pictorial, Portraiture, Natural History, Record, Action, Panel and New Exhibitor. The exhibition will be held in a suitable gallery in the City Museum and Art Gallery, for a period of one month.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
- All fully paid up members are eligible to enter the exhibition.
- There are no restrictions on the number of print entries submitted by any member.
- Entries may be prints or projected images. Prints and projected images of the same image may be entered simultaneously in the same exhibition. However, any image, projected or otherwise, may not be submitted in a future exhibition, irrespective of the format.
- The Committee reserves the right not to accept any entry in the event of it not being fit for public display. Any such entry will be disqualified.
- All entries will be judged. Every effort will be made to display all prints. However, in the event of there being insufficient space to hang all entered prints, an individual’s entry will be reduced by the Exhibition Secretary following discussions with the member concerned.
- Members may submit entries for display purposes only, subject to available space.
- All entries must be submitted to the exhibition secretary by the date displayed on the club notice board. Entries must be accompanied by an entry form and the appropriate fee.
DISPLAY
- For display purposes, all prints will be mounted in Antique White board. Supplies of this board can be obtained through the club at a reduced cost. Any entries submitted with different mounting board, will be judged as submitted. The author will be responsible for remounting for exhibition purposes..
- Slides will be shown on a light box, or copied to a digital image and displayed via a digital projector.
- Digital images will be projected according to the available conditions in the gallery.
FORMAT & IDENTIFICATION
PRINTS
Each entry must bear the author’s name, a title and the class entered.
It is preferred that all prints be mounted using the standard size of 40cm x 50cm. Panoramic or larger mounts will be hung where space permits. Excluding the mount, a print should have a side measuring at least 25cm.
PROJECTED IMAGES
SLIDES – should be in a 50mm square glass mount. They should have a coloured spot at the bottom left hand corner when viewed from the front and bear the authors name and a title.
DIGITAL IMAGES – May be captured by digital camera, digital scanning (by author or lab) off negatives, slides or prints.
The images will be projected by a Data Projector in landscape format at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. Images must therefore, be no more than 1024 pixels wide and no more than 768 pixels high, including any border or frame around the image. If the image is less than the maximum in any direction, the canvas size should be enlarged to 1024 x 768 pixels and the unused area filled with black. It will then be seen to its best advantage when projected.
Images should be saved on a CD as ‘jpg’ or ‘jpeg’. Each CD must be clearly labelled with the authors name, contact telephone number and email address (if applicable), by using a permanent marker pen on the top surface. The filename of each must be the title as saved on the CD and be preceded by the image number as follows:
Image 01 (title) (class) (author initials)
Any author can submit six entries as slides or digital images as any combination in all categories. The following combinations are examples for illustration purposes.
3 slides and 3 digital images in natural history class or,
4 slides and 2 digital images in natural history class or,
1 panel of slides and 3 panels of digital images, (4 images per panel), in the panels class.
GUIDELINES FOR CLASSES
These notes are intended to help members choose the classes most appropriate for their entries. Responsibility for selecting the appropriate class rests entirely with the entrant. The exhibition judge will assess work in the class of entry only. Committee members will be pleased to help on deciding the appropriate class.
PICTORIAL - photography may be defined as ‘that which stimulates the mind of the viewer, by creative use of line, form and colour’. The photographic interpretation may be applied to any subject, real or abstract. Landscapes in this section should have atmospheric lighting.
PORTRAITURE – people should be the dominant feature and the person(s) portrayed should be the major element of the image. In addition to traditional portraiture (eg. studio), candid figure studies and people in leisure pursuits, etc are welcome.
NATURAL HISTORY – photographs of all flora and fauna (other than human) may be entered. Accurate, descriptive titles are recommended. Pictures of domestic pets and cultivated (garden) plants should not be included.
RECORD – photographs that are a straightforward representation of the subject, (eg. Architecture, places, objects of interest), fit into this class.
ACTION – Images depicting movement, such as car racing, bird in flight, sports action etc. This class is for Prints only.
PANEL – a panel consists of four images with a linked theme, eg subject matter, technique, story line. The panel can be all portrait format, all landscape format or a mixture of both. Each image should be labelled and contain author’s name, title and number according to the sequence of display desired by the author. This applies to both prints and projected images.
NEW EXHIBITOR – The aim of this class is to encourage beginners who have not previously entered the exhibition.
CONTACT DETAILS
David Henderson. Exhibition Secretary. Tel: 01733 380452.
Email david@davikath.demon.co.uk
