Competition Rules
Club Competitions – brief description and specific rules
All Club members are welcome to enter our competitions which are a valuable way of getting
feedback on your images from an independent judge.
The following competitions will be held this year:-
Competition 1 - “Anything but Landscape” with sections for Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and
DPIs.
Competition 2 - Open subject with sections for Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and DPIs.
Challenge from the Chair – Colour Print (Derek Bowden Cup), Monochrome Print and DPI (Alf
Couch Cup). This year’s theme is “Something Old”.
1. Eligibility:
a. Only paid up members of the current competition year may enter club internal competitions.
b. The original negative(s) or digital image(s) must be the work of the entrant but processing, printing
or digital manipulation may be commercially undertaken. Any part of an image, however small,
should be an image you have taken personally, not be copied, downloaded, photographed or
scanned from any other work.
c. Images may be entered once in an open subject competition and once in the appropriate defined
subject (Landscape, Portrait etc.) competition.
d. A Black and White work is a monochrome work with various shades of grey. A B&W work toned
entirely in a single colour will be considered as a monochrome work and can stand in the B&W
competition category. A B&W work modified by partial toning or addition of colour becomes
‘polychrome’ and stands in the colour category.
e. By entering members agree their photos (but not their personal details) may be used in a yearbook,
exhibitions, external competitions &/or club publicity material including the club website and
social media.
2. Submission:
a. Competitions are listed on the "Competitions" page on the website with details of subject, media
and entry deadlines.
b. Unless otherwise defined in the Individual Competition Rules, up to three entries may be made in
each section (one or more of colour print, monochrome print & DPI) of each competition.
c. Prints must be mounted with a mount no smaller than 180mm x 130mm and no bigger than 400mm
x 500mm (our preferred size for ease of judging and handling).A DPI of each print must also be
submitted.
d. DPI Entries should be in jpg format saved at maximum quality using the sRGB colour space and
they should be sized to have a maximum height of 1080 pixels and a maximum width of 1600
pixels. Note this is for internal club competitions, external competitions may differ.
e. The preferred method for submitting DPI entries is via Dropbox or WeTransfer. Alternatively they
can be submitted on a memory stick at a meeting before the submission deadline.
f. Entries must be named in the format of the entry number (two digits, 01 to 03) then underscore
then title then underscore then your competition number e.g. if your competition number was 67
your first entry would be:-
01_Image Title_67 and your second would be 02_Second Title_67
Contact the Internal Competition Secretary if you do not already have a competition number.
For DPIs this should be the file name and for prints it should be written on the back, the orientation
of the title indicating the top edge of the print for display.
To keep judges workload to a reasonable level entries numbered 03 from all entrants may be
withdrawn from judging so they should be numbered taking that into account.
3. Judging:
a. Judging of all sections can be by one of: all members using club-voting slips; any member
nominated by the club committee or an outside judge.
b. If judging is by members using voting slips each member excludes their own entries from their
own marking and visitors may vote at the discretion of the competition Secretary.
c. Each entry in a Merit Shield Competition, including those withdrawn under Rule 2f above, will be
awarded 1 point, additional points will be awarded for places as follows : 1st – 6 points; 2nd – 5; 3rd
– 4; 4th – 3; 5th – 2; 6th – 1. Should any entries tie for a place the next place will still be awarded
along with the appropriate points.
d. If only one member enters a competition and two or more Prints/DPIs are entered by that one
member, positions will still be awarded to comply with rule 3c.
All your own work
General Competition Rule 1b says all images entered in competitions should be the work of the
entrant, but these days with so many clip-art libraries and Photoshop plug-ins it is easy to accidentally
break the rules. Under extreme circumstances this may also involve the club and the entrant in legal
situations and action by the PAGB. It is therefore very important that this rule is applied
conscientiously in your photographic art. Any part of an image, however small, should be an image
you have taken personally, not be copied, downloaded, photographed or scanned from any other work.
WCPF / PAGB rules on the use of AI apply. Photographs taken on private property may be subject to
the owner’s permission and this should be obtained in written form if you intend to use it in any way.
All Club members are welcome to enter our competitions which are a valuable way of getting
feedback on your images from an independent judge.
The following competitions will be held this year:-
Competition 1 - “Anything but Landscape” with sections for Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and
DPIs.
Competition 2 - Open subject with sections for Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and DPIs.
Challenge from the Chair – Colour Print (Derek Bowden Cup), Monochrome Print and DPI (Alf
Couch Cup). This year’s theme is “Something Old”.
1. Eligibility:
a. Only paid up members of the current competition year may enter club internal competitions.
b. The original negative(s) or digital image(s) must be the work of the entrant but processing, printing
or digital manipulation may be commercially undertaken. Any part of an image, however small,
should be an image you have taken personally, not be copied, downloaded, photographed or
scanned from any other work.
c. Images may be entered once in an open subject competition and once in the appropriate defined
subject (Landscape, Portrait etc.) competition.
d. A Black and White work is a monochrome work with various shades of grey. A B&W work toned
entirely in a single colour will be considered as a monochrome work and can stand in the B&W
competition category. A B&W work modified by partial toning or addition of colour becomes
‘polychrome’ and stands in the colour category.
e. By entering members agree their photos (but not their personal details) may be used in a yearbook,
exhibitions, external competitions &/or club publicity material including the club website and
social media.
2. Submission:
a. Competitions are listed on the "Competitions" page on the website with details of subject, media
and entry deadlines.
b. Unless otherwise defined in the Individual Competition Rules, up to three entries may be made in
each section (one or more of colour print, monochrome print & DPI) of each competition.
c. Prints must be mounted with a mount no smaller than 180mm x 130mm and no bigger than 400mm
x 500mm (our preferred size for ease of judging and handling).A DPI of each print must also be
submitted.
d. DPI Entries should be in jpg format saved at maximum quality using the sRGB colour space and
they should be sized to have a maximum height of 1080 pixels and a maximum width of 1600
pixels. Note this is for internal club competitions, external competitions may differ.
e. The preferred method for submitting DPI entries is via Dropbox or WeTransfer. Alternatively they
can be submitted on a memory stick at a meeting before the submission deadline.
f. Entries must be named in the format of the entry number (two digits, 01 to 03) then underscore
then title then underscore then your competition number e.g. if your competition number was 67
your first entry would be:-
01_Image Title_67 and your second would be 02_Second Title_67
Contact the Internal Competition Secretary if you do not already have a competition number.
For DPIs this should be the file name and for prints it should be written on the back, the orientation
of the title indicating the top edge of the print for display.
To keep judges workload to a reasonable level entries numbered 03 from all entrants may be
withdrawn from judging so they should be numbered taking that into account.
3. Judging:
a. Judging of all sections can be by one of: all members using club-voting slips; any member
nominated by the club committee or an outside judge.
b. If judging is by members using voting slips each member excludes their own entries from their
own marking and visitors may vote at the discretion of the competition Secretary.
c. Each entry in a Merit Shield Competition, including those withdrawn under Rule 2f above, will be
awarded 1 point, additional points will be awarded for places as follows : 1st – 6 points; 2nd – 5; 3rd
– 4; 4th – 3; 5th – 2; 6th – 1. Should any entries tie for a place the next place will still be awarded
along with the appropriate points.
d. If only one member enters a competition and two or more Prints/DPIs are entered by that one
member, positions will still be awarded to comply with rule 3c.
All your own work
General Competition Rule 1b says all images entered in competitions should be the work of the
entrant, but these days with so many clip-art libraries and Photoshop plug-ins it is easy to accidentally
break the rules. Under extreme circumstances this may also involve the club and the entrant in legal
situations and action by the PAGB. It is therefore very important that this rule is applied
conscientiously in your photographic art. Any part of an image, however small, should be an image
you have taken personally, not be copied, downloaded, photographed or scanned from any other work.
WCPF / PAGB rules on the use of AI apply. Photographs taken on private property may be subject to
the owner’s permission and this should be obtained in written form if you intend to use it in any way.
