Mold Camera Club

Established 1963

Competitions

 

Mold Camera Club Internal Competitions

 

Competitions for 2011/12

As most of you will be aware, it was agreed at the AGM to change to how we run competitions for this season. The change affects the 6 league competitions in that each member is allowed a maximum of 2 prints and 2 digital images per competition. In the past the best 2 scoring images out of the maximum 3 counted towards the Print and DPI competitions. For this season all will count although it will still be the best of 5 from 6 competitions that will count. All entries for the 6 competitions will still count towards the Photographer of the Year. This will reviewed at the end of the season.

 

It was also agreed to split the club into 3 sections, namely Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. You should already have been notified which section you are in.

 

As with last year we will be running 6 league competitions, 3 will be open and 3 themed and the details of these are below. In addition we will also be running our Print and DPI of the Year competitions and in this all members are permitted to enter 3 of each.

 

And finally as started last year, we will be holding an AV competition. It is on an open theme and all entries must contain at least one soundtrack. Members are limited to one entry of no more than 5 minutes in duration.

 

The full list of competitions is as follows:

- Competition 1 – Open – 3rd October – Entries by 19th September

- Competition 2 – People In The Landscape – 7th November – Entries by 24th October

- Competition 3 – Open – 5th December – Entries by 21st November

- Competition 4 – Photomerge – 9th Jan – Entries by 19th December

- Competition 5 – Open – 6th February – Entries by 23rd January

- Competition 6 – Landmarks – 5th March – Entries by 20th February

- Print of the Year – Open – 2nd April – Entries by 19th March

- DPI of the Year – Open – 16th April – Entries by 2nd April

- AV Competition – Open – 7th May – Entries by 16th April

 

With Open competitions it is up to each member to choose their own subject for each of their images. There are no restrictions other than the image cannot have appeared in a previous club competition.

 

For the Print & DPI of the Year competitions you are permitted to reuse images previously submitted as long as they have not been in a previous Print or DPI of the Year competition. You cannot submit the same image into both competitions.

 

For ‘People In the Landscape” all images must be some form of traditional landscape image and contain a person or people. How wide or narrow the landscape is, will be up to each member to decide.

 

For the ‘Photomerge’ competition you are required to design a cover. This could be for a book, a magazine a DVD and so on. The design must include at least two images and some text. All images used must be your own work. You can submit 2 designs as prints and two as DPI entries.

 

With the ‘Landmarks’ competition we announced previously that the three landmarks in question are:

1. Loggerheads Country Park (within the boundaries of the park)

2. The Mostyn Funship (must show all visible or part of the ship)

3. River Dee at Chester (between the racecourse and the Boathouse Pub)

For this competition you can again submit up to 2 prints and/or 2 digital images. However to enter all 4 you must use each of the named landmarks at least once and you can only use each landmark once in each category.

 

All other club rules will remain as per the club rule book, an updated version of which will be in your club handbooks which you will receive on renewing your membership. Any queries regarding the competitions should be directed to Chris Noble or Ian Parker. Mike Catania can also assist with any queries regarding which section you belong to.

 

 

General Information

 

The club holds 6 internal competitions during the season plus picture of the year at the end of the season. You can submit 2 prints in a mount not greater than 40cm by 50cm (or 16” x 20”) and 2 images for projection for each competition. For our Print and DPI of the Year competitions members are permitted to enter 3 of each.

 

When you pay your subscription you will be given competition numbers to use through the year. These should be the sole method of identification on the pictures you submit for the internal competitions. Please make certain that your name or other means of identifying you is not present on the picture. Pictures can only be submitted once for these competitions.

 

With your prints do make certain that no adhesive in any form is exposed as it can easily damage other peoples work. If exposed sticky stuff is found on any picture it will be automatically withdrawn from the competition. It is best to use a mount that ends up flush on the back rather than leaving tape exposed. If you are in doubt as to how to do this do ask for a demonstration from Bob Morgan or Andy Polakowski.

 

 

Details of the competition dates will be posted on our Programme page.

 

 

Digital Projected Images.

 

Images presented in internal competitions for projection shall be in digital file format as per the vote at the AGM. Up to 2 images can be submitted unless the individual rules of a particular competition say otherwise.

 

Points for Photographer of the year shall be obtained from the two categories prints and projected images

 

Digital images for projection can either be submitted in the format below to the competition secretary on hand in evening or emailed to the competition secretary by 22.00 on the hand evening at the latest. It is important that you receive a receipt note if emailing. Submission on the night can be on CD/DVD. Please make certain that whatever medium you use is clearly labelled with your name. CD’s and Memory Sticks must have your name on them so they can be returned with ease. These do not go to the judges so they do not have to be anonymous.

The competition secretary will undertake to return your storage media by the date of the competition.

 

Our projector has a resolution of 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high. To see your pictures at their best they should be resized to these dimensions.  If the picture dimensions are less then the picture will project small. If they are bigger you are leaving the resizing to the projector/projection software, not the best way to do it. If you do not have software to crop and resize images talk nicely to someone in the club who has and is prepared to help. So if your picture is landscape in format it should not be more than 1400 pixels wide and 1050 high. If it is in portrait format it should not be more than 1050 pixels high. If sending your images by email please keep your upload size to a maximum of 2MB. Total.

Images should not have your name in the file name or on the picture. You must remove metadata from your DPI entries Please see that the file is named in the following sequence for our internal competitions. Your Competition number_competition date_your picture title. Thus the name could look like :-  A456_27_October_landscape.jpg     Note the prefix A in the example please a prefix to your competition number to indicate which group you are entering. This form of file naming will not apply to external and inter club competitions where the form of naming will be announced before the competition in question.

 

Images can be submitted as .jpg or .tif If you use jpgs do use quality 12. If you are using tiffs then flatten all layers, remove any alpha channels, and use 8-bit colour and no compression. If you are emailing entries do use jpg to avoid bandwidth problems.

 

The images must be RGB NOT CMYK Convert your images to sRGB colour space. We will standardise on this for the moment and it is probably the safest way to ensure that judges can reliably see the colour of your images. Any problems and find someone in the club who might know more than you do to help!!!

 

The copyright of the images remains with you. The competition secretary will see that images are removed from his own computers and the one used for projection on the competition night. He will ask judges to remove your images from their computers.

 

In summary sRGB pictures .jpg or .tiff on disc or by email resized to fit the projector. Named: A(your number)_competition date_title.jpg/tiff

 

More details from Chris Noble  

Phone: +44 (0) 1352 715007

Mobile: + 44 (0) 7748 598923

http://www.noblemultimedia.co.uk