GENERAL |
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In all competitions which take place in the course of one evening and in which numerical marks are awarded there can be only two joint winners. In the event of a tie involving three or more competitors the judge will be invited to select a winning panel. |
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In all competitions, images must be made from original material taken by the author. Copying other work is not permitted. Entry of copy from books, magazines etc., downloading from TV, the Internet, CD Rom, DVD etc. in whole or in part are not acceptable.Every part of each submitted image must have originated from the entrant’s own exposure(s). |
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Former slide competitions will now be combined with digitally projected images on an equal, equivalent and seamless basis.Digital projections and slides will commonly be referred to as images. Each projection competition shall have a slide projector and digital projector set up, with slides shown first, followed by digital projection. |
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Where there is a double competition on the night, each member may submit upto two images for each competition. In all other general cases, no member in any class may enter more than three images in any one section of the competition. The committee has the right to change the number of images that may be entered in the competition.
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In the event of a tie, the judge will be invited to select a winning slide or panel. A tie will be allowed in the Norman Wilkinson Quarterly Slide Competition. |
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Trophies for all competitions shall be held for 12 months. It is the responsibility of the winner to have the trophy engraved at his/her own expense. |
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Colour and monochrome images may be entered. |
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Owing to technical difficulties, there will be no Panel of Three or Knock-out competitions. |
DIGITAL PROJECTION COMPETITIONS |
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These shall be to the prescribed format for club competition as specified on the club website. Titles and authorship should be added in the prescribed format.
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Entries should be submitted to the club on memory sticks, DVDs or other portable means by Friday before the date of the competition. Alternatively they may be emailed in the form of an attachment to the Projection Secretary by the previous Tuesday |
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Work submitted in any way contrary to the above cannot be included in the competition. |
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All images must be clearly titled and named...Examples: TENBY by barry haines (or) OBAN by peter elgar
(PLEASE NOTE That the upper/lower case and the by and gaps are all very important as they are required to be labelled in this manner in order for the Digital Projection Software to work properly, when the same images are displayed at the club) |
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Maximum Image Sizes. IMPORTANT -No Images shall be wider than 1400 pixels and no higher than 1050 high pixels. |
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Images should be saved in
sRGB colour space - So that they display as the correct web colours
(jpeg 8 bit Mode) - Compression quality 12.
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NORMAN WILKINSON QUARTERLY PROJECTION COMPETITION |
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There shall be five rounds held per year.
Each member may submit up to a maximum of 3 images for each round, none of which has been previously entered in a Quarterly round excepting those scoring B, C or D. These may be entered subsequently once more during the following club year.
Entered images will be graded A, B, C or D.
The trophy winner will have obtained the highest number of A awards in the four rounds held during the year. In the event of a tie, the number of B, C and, if necessary, D awards shall be taken into consideration to decide the winner. |
BRIGADIER SMITH ROSE BOWL |
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Each member may submit up to 3 images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The winning set shall be that obtaining the highest aggregate score, each image being marked out of 10. |
FLORA & FAUNA TROPHY |
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Each member may submit images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The winning set shall be that obtaining the highest aggregate score, each image being marked out of 10. The subject matter must be living at the time of taking. |
SET SUBJECT |
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The subject will be decided by the Committee, and announced at the AGM preceding the competition. Each member may submit Images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The winning set shall be that obtaining the highest aggregate score, each image being marked out of 10. |
CLIFF MANGAN CUP (Image of the Year) |
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This competition will be judged at the time of the Brigadier Smith Rose Bowl competition, when the judge will be invited to select the best single image competing in the Rose Bowl. |
LAND, SEA AND SKYSCAPE (Dennis Miller Plate) |
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The objective is to encourage those who have not recently won a major trophy, and consequently those who have won any of the Brigadier Smith, Quarterly Image or Image of the Year competitions within the current or previous two club years. These members are debarred from taking part.
Entrants may submit images, none of which has been previously entered in this competition. Images will be judged individually.
The subjects are land, sea or skyscapes.
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PORTRAIT COMPETITION* (Portrait Goblet) |
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Each member may submit images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The Images will be judged individually.
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RECORD COMPETITION* |
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Entries will be record (as opposed to pictorial) images of any subject. Each member may submit images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The images will be judged individually.
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CLOSE-UP, STILL LIFE AND TABLE TOP COMPETITION* |
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Each member may submit images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The images will be judged individually. |
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These competitions will be held at the discretion of the committee and will be included on the syllabus as appropriate.
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