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Classes of Author
There are three classes of author: General, Intermediate and Advanced.
New members should inform the competition secretaries of any RPS or PAGB awards or successes in external competitions and exhibitions to ensure that they start in an appropriate class. In the absence of such evidence they will normally begin in the General class. Promotion will be agreed annually by the committee on the recommendation of the competition secretaries.
General Competition Rules
There are separate competitions for prints and projected digital images (PDI).
Images may be of any subject but will be judged as pictorial in nature. They may be naturalistic, creative or experimental and be digitally manipulated in any manner. Images must have significant photographic content ie from a traditional photographic process, digital camera or scanner. Images created solely in a computer are not acceptable.
An image may only be submitted in one medium (print or PDI) in one season.
Judges are asked to comment on each image and mark it out of 20. Each class is judged separately. An image which has earned 13 or more marks in a competition may not be re-entered, except in a Final.
Copyright must be vested in the author but a print may be professionally processed.
Trophies:
In each of the Print and PDI competitions, the following trophies are awarded:
General class best of league medal
General class best of year medal (Finals winner)
Intermediate class best of league medal
Intermediate class best of year medal (Finals winner)
Advanced class best of league medal
Advanced class best of year medal (Finals winner)
Image of the year medal (Finals all classes)
Print-Specific Rules
There are five Print Competitions in each of which authors may submit a maximum of two prints. The highest eight scores out of the five competitions will count for the seasonal league table.
There is also a Print Final in which each author may submit two prints that have been in a print competition during the season. The judge will pick the best print from each class and the Print of the Year.
On the night of a competition, prints will be accepted until 7.50pm.
Print Details:
Prints must be on a stiff mount and not less than 224cm2 and of a maximum size of 40x50cm. The print title and author's name must be written on the back and if the orientation is questionable "Top" should also be written on the back.
To read John Harrison's 'Mounting Prints' click |here|;
For Paul Mitchell's Conservation Mounting, click |here|
Projected Digital Image-Specific Rules
There are five PDI competitions in each of which authors may submit a maximum of two images. The highest eight scores out of the five competitions will count for the seasonal league table.
There is also a PDI Final in which each author may submit two images that have been in a PDI competition during the season. The judge will pick the best image from each class and the PDI of the Year.
Entries must be submitted no later than the Friday before the competition, preferably by e-mail attachment but also on CD, DVD or flash memory stick delivered to the competition secretary.
E-mailed images should be mailed to pdi@amershamphotosoc.com
For comprehensive help with preparing your images in Photoshop CS or Elements, click |here|
PLEASE NOTE THESE REQUIREMENTS FOR PDI FILES:
Images for projection must be in JPEG format (maximum quality), with maximum dimensions 1400 pixels wide x 1050 pixels high.
Note that if a square format is used, the maximum size will therefore be 1050 x 1050 pixels.For predictable colours from our projector it is necessary that the image is in the sRGB colour space. Filenames must be in the following format:
IMAGE TITLE by Your Name.jpg ... for example ... ANOTHER STUNNING LANDSCAPE by Roger Longdin.jpg
The use of the image name in upper case and the 'by' in lower case letters is essential because the competition software uses this to automatically recognise the title and authors name.
