PETERBOROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
COMPETITION RULES
2011 – 2012 Season
All fully paid up members of the Society are eligible to enter the Society’s competitions. Each entrant may submit a maximum of two prints, and two digital projected images (PDI). These must be current work which has not been used previously in these competitions and can be of any subject.
There are four open competitions each season, each competition has two sections
- Prints (monochrome or colour)
- Digital projected images (monochrome or colour)
PRINTS - Each entry must bear the author’s name and a title. There is no stipulated minimum size for print entries but for guidance it should measure not less than 25cms along the longest side of the print (excluding the mount) to enable the audience to see the work.
Should you wish your work to be considered to represent the club in Federation or PAGB Exhibitions/Competitions then it will need to conform to the maximum mount size of 50 cms x 40 cms - with the print contained therein.
PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGES – Images may be captured by digital camera, digital scanning (by author or lab) off negatives, slides or prints.
The Images will be projected by 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 your image is less than the maximum in any direction, the canvas size should be enlarged to 1024 x 768 pixels and the unused area should be filled with black. It will then be seen to its best advantage when projected on the screen.
Images should be saved as ’jpg’ or ‘jpeg’ with sRGB colour space. The FILENAME of each must be the TITLE as saved on the CD/USB Memory Stick and be preceded by the image number as follows:
Image 01 (title)…
Image 02 (title)…
Entries submitted on CD should be clearly labelled with the authors name, contact telephone number and e-mail address (if applicable) by using a firm permanent marker pen on the top surface of the disc. All CD’s will be returned to the author after each competition.
Entries submitted on a USB Memory Stick should be identified by the author’s name. All USB Memory sticks will be returned to the author after each competition.
Entries can also be submitted as a file attachment to an Email to :
All entries received will be acknowledged by a return email - if you do not receive a reply then I do not have your entry.
JUDGING - The judge will comment on all entries both prints and DPI and will award each image a mark out of 20. Based on these scores the first second and third place for both prints and DPI will be announced on the evening for each of the four competitions.
These scores are cumulative and will count towards the overall score over the 4 competitions
The overall winners, with the highest score for prints or DPI will hold the trophy for one year.
The Society reserves the right on all images submitted in any given season to be retained on File for use in external competitions to represent the Society in which case the Society will bear the cost of either reproducing it as a print or slide having first sought the authors permission to do so. This will be donated to the author once used. The winning images from each section will be posted on the web site.
Any image submitted into this competition may not subsequently be reproduced and entered again in another medium, (i.e. – a print cannot be entered again as a PDI - a PDI cannot be entered again as a print) nor can an image be entered again which is similar as to be almost identical.
The final image must be the photographer’s own work including the original image and all parts thereof, by implication the photographer owns the copyright to all parts of the image.
All work must be handed to the competition captain by the week before the competition is judged. (PDI entries sent by email will be accepted up to midnight on the Saturday before the competition is due to take place) - Any work submitted after the closing date will not be included.
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