PRINT AND PROJECTION COMPETITION RULES

BRENTWOOD & DISTRICT PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB
PRINT COMPETITION RULES (JUNE 2007)

GENERAL
1 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.

2 In all competitions, prints 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.

3  Prints may be any shape, and up to 20x16ins  (50x40cms) including the mount. The minimum size is as follows: one side of the print excluding the mount should not be less than nominally 10ins.  (25cms)

4 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.

5 All prints must be submitted to the print secretary by 8pm on the evening of the competition.

6 The front of the print or its mount shall bear no indication of the authorship of the print, but may be titled. The name of the author, and in the case of Monthly Print Competitions the relevant section, shall be inscribed on the rear of the mount.

MONTHLY COMPETITIONS
1 The competitions are in two sections, 1 and 2.
  1. Advanced.  
  2. Beginners & Intermediate. 
 
2 A trophy will be awarded in each section to the most successful member during the club year. Each winning print will receive 15 points, the second 10 points, the third 5 points, and each merit 2.5 points.
 The Ken Looker Memorial Trophy will be awarded to the winner of Section 1.
 The Stewart Hall Trophy will be awarded to the winner of Section 2.
 
3 No member in any class may enter more than three prints in any one section of the competition. The committee has the right to change the number of prints that may be entered in the competition.

4 Prints which have gained an award for first, second or third places may not be entered again in subsequent competitions. Other prints may be entered after the next monthly competition has taken place and if placed may score points. Only the higher placing counts.

5 Prints entered in a section declared “no contest” because there are fewer than five entries, may be entered in the next monthly competition.

6 No print may be entered more than twice in Monthly Competitions.

7 Members who are in Section 2 can elect themselves into Section 1 if announced at the beginning of the club year to the Print Secretary. 

8 The committee has the right to promote members from Section 2 to Section 1.  Decisions will be announced at the AGM.

GEORGE WORLEY TROPHY
The subjects are Landscape or Seascape or Skyscape, or in any combination, taken within the British Isles and adjacent waters. The objective of this competition is to encourage those members who have not gained a major trophy in the current club year or the preceding two years.  The relevant trophies are the Tom Belcher, Dreghorn, Stewart Hall, Ken Looker or Empson trophies.  Entrants may submit up to three prints, none of which may have been previously entered in this competition. These will be judged. individually.
 
LAND, SEA, SKYSCAPE CUP  (Barry and Alison Haines Trophy)
The subject is landscape or seascape or skyscape or in any combination, and which may have been taken worldwide. Each member may submit a maximum of three prints which must not have been entered previously in this competition. The prints will be judged individually.

DREGHORN TROPHY
A maximum of three prints shall be the basis of this competition. Prints must not have been entered for a previous Dreghorn Trophy. Each print judged individually will receive marks up to a maximum of 10. The winning entry shall be that which scores the highest total points. 

RECORD TROPHY
The subject for this competition will be on a “Set Subject” theme, which will be changed every year. Primarily not a pictorial competition, the objective will be to produce the best “technical record” of an inanimate subject photographed to show detail, form and texture. Each member may submit a maximum of three prints which will be judged individually and which must not have been entered in a previous Record Trophy competition.

GILLESPIE TROPHY
The subject for this trophy is Table Top, Still Life or Close-Up. Each member may submit a maximum of three prints which will be judged individually and which must not have been entered in a previous Gillespie Trophy competition.
PORTRAIT CUP
Each member may submit a maximum of three prints which will be judged individually and which must not have been entered in a previous Portrait Cup competition.

“APERTURE” KNOCKOUT TROPHY
Two prints must be submitted which must not have been entered in any BDPC competition prior to the current club year. The two prints, which need not be related, will be judged sequentially versus another competitor’s two prints. The prints will be judged individually and the higher rated pair will win the. 

EMPSON TROPHY ( Panel of three prints) 
 Each member may submit one or two panels of three prints. The aim is to display three prints with a common theme, eg. a related subject or a sequence. The three prints will be displayed simultaneously. The rear of the mount should indicate left-centre-right as appropriate. The prints shall not have been entered previously in this competition. The judge will be invited to select the best panel and the trophy will be awarded to the winner.

MINI PRINT COMPETITION
Each member may make two entries.  Each entry should consist of a number of colour prints, all on a single mount not exceeding 20x16ins (50 x 40 cms).  Individual prints may no be larger than 7x5ins (18x13cms)  
 
PRINT OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
1 Prints awarded “stickers” in the current club year are eligible. Each member may submit a maximum of three prints.

2 In the event of non-availability of the original print, a true copy certified and signed by the Print Secretary will be eligible.

3 The Tom Belcher Trophy will be awarded for the print placed first.

BRENTWOOD & DISTRICT PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB
PROJECTION COMPETITION RULES   (MARCH 2008)

2 Each competitor shall submit up to 3 images unless otherwise specified, and these may be of any combination of slides and digital projections.

3 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.

4 Trophies for all competitions will be held by the winners for 12 months. It is the holder’s responsibility to have the trophy engraved at his/her expense.

5 Colour and monochrome images may be entered.

6 Every part of each submitted image must have originated from the entrant’s own exposure(s).

7 Owing to technical difficulties, there will be no Panel of Three or Knock-out competitions.

DIGITAL PROJECTIONS
1. 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.

2 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.

3 Work submitted in any way contrary to the above cannot be included in the competition.

4 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)

5 Maximum image size is 1024 wide X 768 high pixels (XGA) 786,432 square pixels (0.786432MP). With a minimum portrait format size of 500 wide X 768 high pixels. No image can have an area of less than 384,000 square pixels (0.384MP).

The 500 wide X 768 high pixels in the portrait format...takes into account that not all DSLR's or raw converters will necessarily provide you with a perfect 2:3 ratio if scaling down an original image. The 384,000 square pixels (0.384MP) minimum area...takes into account anybody wishing to provide a letter box landscape panoramic...i.e. 1024 wide X 375 high pixels or 960 wide X 400 high pixels or 768 wide X 500 high pixels or 640 wide X 600 high pixels without making to small an image.

6 Images should be saved in the SRGB colour space - So that they display as the correct web colours.

7 Saved to a jpeg (jpeg is 8 bit) - Compression quality 12.

SLIDES
1 For all competitions, slides must be spotted and supplied in 2” x 2” mounts. They should be marked with the author’s name and with a title.

2 Slides may be trade processed.

3 Slides ideally should be submitted to the club by the previous Friday or directly delivered to the nominated address by the Thursday previous to the competition.

NORMAN WILKINSON QUARTERLY PROJECTION  COMPETITION
There shall be four 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
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
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.  The subject matter must be living at the time of taking.

SET SUBJECT
The subject will be decided by the Committee, and announced at the AGM preceding the competition. 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.

CLIFF MANGAN CUP (Image of the Year)
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)    
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 up to 3 images, none of which has been previously entered in this competition. Images will be judged individually.

The subjects are land, sea or skyscapes.

PORTRAIT COMPETITION* (Portrait Goblet)
Each member may submit up to 3 images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The Images will be judged individually.

RECORD COMPETITION*
Entries will be record (as opposed to pictorial) images of any subject. Each member may submit up to 3 images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The images will be judged individually. 

CLOSE-UP, STILL LIFE AND TABLE TOP COMPETITION*
Each member may submit up to 3 images, none of which has been entered previously in the competition. The images will be judged individually.

*These competitions will be held at the discretion of the committee and will be included on the syllabus as appropriate.

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