DUNHOLME CAMERA CLUB
Competition Guidelines and Rules (Revised January 2011)

ELIGIBILITY
Only club members, without subscription arrears, will be permitted to enter club competitions or external competitions on behalf of the club

All entries must be the sole work of the author.

Colour or monochrome work may be entered in any competition unless otherwise stated, each judged on its own merits.

SCORES and AWARDS for Photographer of the Year

In each competition for each section there will be awarded; 1st, 2nd, Highly Commended, and two commended by the judge on the night, the points awarded for the above places will be 1st place 7 points, 2nd place 5 points, highly commended 3 points and commended 2 points.

Photographer of the Year points will be awarded as follows:-
All points awarded for club competitions entered during the 12 months commencing 1st January will be aggregated for each member to produce a total point’s score. All members entering on a competition night will receive 1 point per competition regardless of categories entered. The member with the highest aggregated points score will be Photographer of the Year. In the event of a tie the Photographer of the Year will be awarded jointly.

SUBMISSIONS
The presentation quality of entries could be taken into account by the judge.

Entrance to competitions is via entry forms, supplied electronically to all members. The maximum number of entries is THREE per section. List your entries in order of preference. The Competition Secretary reserves the right to delete entries form the bottom of your entry form, if the overall number of entries is excessive.

Competition sections include Monochrome prints, Colour prints and Digital Images. Under certain circumstances one or more of these sections may be omitted for a given competition, in which case members will be advised of the permitted sections at least 4 weeks in advance of the competition.

Images have a Club/LPA competition life span of 5 years, after the date the work is first shown.

GENERAL RULES (prints)
Members submitting prints or digital images for competitions or exhibitions must place their name on the reverse of the images, image title, the image must have the date it was first presented for competition and will have a life span of 5 years from the first date of presentation, “Dunholme Camera Club” must also be written on the reverse of the image. Images should clearly show the way that the image is to be presented (top clearly marked) if any of the required information is absent on the reverse of the print it may be excluded from a competition. All submissions must be accompanied by a competition entry form (click here).

PRINT SUBMISSIONS
Prints must be mounted on suitable mount card, (max size: - 20” x 16” comprising print and the mount).

The author’s full name and the title, with the first entry date, must be on the back of the mount.

Prints may be trade processed or home produced.

Prints produced using Digital imaging techniques may be entered in any competition providing the original images has been produced using a camera (film, video, digital).

DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS
Digital images may be entered in competitions providing the original image has been produced using a camera (film, video, digital).

Images may be colour or mono but are entered into the same digital competition

The only accepted format of the image will be JPEG. The image files MUST have a .JPG extension

The title of the image file must be same as the (short) title of the submission only and must have the author’s identity in the format of Christian name initial followed by the first and second initial of the surname for example Grahame Dunkin would be GDu.

In the event of 2 digital images being submitted for the same competition with the same title the competition secretary shall prefix the name of the image file with an incremental number (1,2,3 etc).

A completed competition entry form must be provided with the images and this should clearly list image name and author

All files and media must be readable using a standard windows PC.
NB: Digital competition entries can be made via email or Dropbox

The MAXIMUM size of the digital image file must not exceed 2MB
The MINIMUM size of the digital image file must not be less than 300K
The longest side of the digital image should be between 1000 and 3500 pixels

For optimum results the following settings are suggested
Image file size 1.5 – 2MB
Working colour space: Adobe RGB
Resolution: 200 – 300 dpi

ALL competition entries must be with the Competition Secretary or the Club Secretary at least 24hrs prior to any competition.

You are NOT allowed to enter the same image into different sections of the competition on the night.


PLEASE FORWARD A DIGITAL COPY OF ALL PRINT ENTRIES TO THE CLUB SECRETARY EITHER BY EMAIL OR DROPBOX BY PUTTING “Copy” AT THE END OF THE TITLE AND INITIALS. This way we will know that it is a copy and not a competition entry.