Ross-on-Wye Photo Club

Competitions

Competition Information:

Print Competition Secretary : Roger Walding
Digital Projected Image Secretary : John Ryland

Competitions for the 2020/21 season:

Oct 7th	Open Subject. DPI	Hand in Sept 23rd
Nov 4th	Open Subject. Prints	Hand in Oct 19th
Nov 16th	5 Print Challenge	Hand in Nov 4th
Dec 9th	Grafitti. Prints	Hand in Nov 25th
Jan 20th	Interpretations. DPI (details here)	Hand in Jan 6th
Feb 10th	Reflections. Prints	Hand in Jan 27th
Mar 3rd	After Dark DPI	Hand in Feb 15th
April 14th	Annual Open. Prints	Hand in March 31st
April 28th	Annual Open. DPI	Hand in April 14th

NB: The maximum permitted number of entries for each competition is three per member per competition. EITHER two colour and one monochrome, OR two monochrome and one colour - your choice. If entering two please label your entries one and two in order of preference. If there are too many entries for a competition number two will be taken out.

Digital projected images should be Jpegs with a pixel size of 1920 width x 1200 height. (Portrait images must not exceed 1200 pixels high). Colour profile should be sRGB. An entry form is not required for DPI Competitions

DPI competitions are entered by email. Put your images in separate emails for colour and monochrome, and give the email a subject line of Your name, Comp No., Subject, Mono(Colour). E.g. John Doe, Comp 1, Still Life, Mono

The attached Images should be named Order preference [space] Title.jpg E.g. 01 Green Fields.jpg Please ensure the images are attached and not embedded. Don't drag your files into the email!

emails should be sent to competitionsecretary96@gmail.com

Images incorrectly sized or titled, or not entered by the due date will not be entered in the competition. (For re-sizing information see the link on the 'Rules' page.)

Print entries should be mounted on stiff card or mount board. They can be flush mounted or window mounted. The mount size in our internal competitions is 500mm x 400mm. Please use good quality tape to attach your prints to the mount, (no sellotape, and not cheap quality masking tape which can peel off and damage other prints). Picture framer's tape is ideal, (available from Keith Sharples for £3 a roll). The club has a mount cutter available for any member to borrow, ask the chairperson if you would like to use it. Prints should have the title on the back at the top of the print, (indicating the right way up), and, if entering two, number one or two in order of preference, and NO OTHER INFORMATION, ie no names, exhibition acceptance labels etc. Entries must be given to the print competition secretary, Roger Walding, on the due date accompanied by a correctly filled in entry form, (click link at bottom of page for entry form).

Judges will award placings in each competition of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, highly commended and commended. Points are awarded for each placing. (1st - 5 points, 2nd - 4 points, 3rd - 3 points, HC - 2 points, C - 1 point). At the end of the season trophies are awarded to the members who have accumulated the most points in each section.

Any entry that does not win a placing, (1st, 2nd, 3rd, HC or C), in a competition may be entered on one further occasion into a subsequent competition. Any entry that wins a placing, (1st, 2nd, 3rd, HC or C), in a competition cannot be entered into future competitions. The exception to this is for the annual open competitions when any image can be entered whether or not it has won an award previously. However an image can be entered into one annual open only, ie if it has been entered in the print annual open it must not be entered into the digital annual open, (and vice versa).

Monochrome entries must be black and white, or with one overall tone. Images with one localised colour are deemed to be colour images.

From time to time the club does a group order of mountboard from our sponsor Paper Spectrum who will give us a 10% discount if the order is big enough. Please ask Keith Sharples if you are interested.

Keith will also cut windows to the size you require (small charge applies). This will be a one week turnaround from one meeting to the next.

Picture Framer's tape is available from Keith at £3 a roll.

To download competition entry form click the link:
Print Competition Entry Form

For full competition rules click the link:
Competition Rules

Tips: for re-sizing images for club DPI Competitions.

In Photoshop go to File - Automate - Fit Image - type in 1920 x 1200 and it will automatically resize for portrait or landscape.

You will only need to change the pixels if you have to resize for different projectors.

For Elements users, (this works on Elements 13, not sure about 14 or 15) go to File - Automate - fit image - type in the pixels you require 1920 x 1200 and it will hold the sizes until you change it. Again it will automatically size for portrait or landscape.

The competitions for the 21/22 season are:

Macro	In laymans terms, this is just an extreme closeup. Technically it is an image whose subject is reproduced to at least 1:1. That means that the image on the camera sensor or film plate is the same size, or larger, than the real-life subject.
Circles / Lines	Show photos of Circular things or Linear things. The main focus of the compositions should be about Circles and/or Lines. It is not enough to just have a photo that contains a circle or line. You should have composed and processed your image to draw the viewers attention to the circular or linear nature of the scene. In other words; An image containing Circles and/or Lines as its main focus
Architecture	Buildings and Man-made Structures for Industrial, Commercial and Housing use. Show images of Architecture; but no bridges, because we have a seperate competition this season for bridges.
Bridges	A bridge is normally associated with a structure that spans a gap and carries a road, train line, or other form of transport. But a bridge can mean so many other things. I can think of the bridge on a ship, the bridge of your nose, or a part of a musical instrument. Use your imagination and show us what you have got. But, beware, if you choose to show us an image of something obscure or tenuous; and the judge does not recognise it as a bridge; then you may get marked down. It's your choice and you bear the risk.

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