1 Prints and Slides
1.1 All entries must comply with League competition rules 1.2 and 1.3
1.2 The number of entries per member may be limited to 6 monochrome prints, 6 colour prints and 6 slides.
1.3 All prints and slides must bear the member's name, class of entry**, a title or description in brackets for identification purposes and order of preference in case the number is restricted.
1.4 A print or slide may be entered in only one Annual Competition
1.5 Members must adhere to the closing date for entries, which will be announced at club meetings or published in the programme. All entries must be submitted with an official entry form available from the competition secretaries
1.6 Entry Level prints and slides will be entered for the Novice trophy (Mono Prints) and the Frewin Cup (Colour Prints). These will be awarded once only to any one member.
2 Prints Only
2.1 All prints must be mounted and comply with current league rules for dimensions.
2.2 In order to be eligible to enter prints for the Annual awards, members must have entered at least 2 internal league print competitions in the current season.
3 Slides Only
3.1 All slides must comply with current league rules on presentation
3.2 In order to be eligible to enter slides for the Annual awards, members must have entered at least 2 internal league slide competitions in the current season.
There is a single open category for the annual awards.
Authors are restricted to 6 images that MUST be no more than 1024 pixels wide and no more than 768 pixels high. It is essential that images are given a file name in the format XX-title.jpg where XX equals your membership number. Eg. 88-Lands End Sunrise.jpg
If you have any queries please speak to Bruce Gray during a club evening.
Entries should be submitted on CD or USB memory no later than 3 weeks before the event. Members are reminded that submissions not meeting the entry requirements will be excluded from the competition.
Class 1: Pictorial - Any image not qualifying for either of the other two classes.
Class 2: Portrait - Images only of live human subjects (live at the time of taking). Normally, but not exclusively, of one person. The face, or a substantial part of the face, must be included. The purpose of the picture is to present the person(s) to the viewer in order for the visage, character or perhaps occupation of the subject to be appreciated.
Thus, a photograph of a person in a crowd or a street scene would not normally qualify, but may do so if seen or behaving in a striking manner which sets them apart from the rest; however the visual emphasis must always be on the main human subject.
Class 3: Record - An accurate depiction of a thing, place or event produced for the purpose of illustrating what the subject actually looks, or looked, like.
Thus, a photo-journalistic record of an event will record a moment in a continuing story; a picture of, say, a flower or an animal could be one used in a textbook describing the subject (but some record images, for example a close-up of a petal or a stamen, better belong in the Pictorial Class). Similarly, a photograph of a building would qualify if shown straight , i.e. with no, or little, perspective distortion, to illustrate its distinctive architectural character.
A Natural History image is certainly a record, but the subject should be free, shown in its natural habitat and given its proper name. Cultivated plants, captive animals or pets may also be included in this Class if the images otherwise comply with these guidelines.
The image should not have been captured or altered in any way to change its appearance or to add an effect not present in the original. A picture which displays the photographer's own interpretation of a subject or is the result of a photographic technique which produces an unreal view is not a record.
Revised June 2008