Competitions

Competitions are an excellent way to improve your photographic techniques, whether it’s by learning from other people's efforts or hopefully by entering your own images.  They are open to all abilities, with a mixture of judges (mostly from outside the Society) who generally provide encouragement and constructive criticism (don't worry all entries are anonymous, with just the winners being identified).

 

Our internal competitions are varied covering: Slides, Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and now Digital Images. Throughout the season we run League Print and Slide competitions with final Annual Competitions at the end of the season. We also have digital and slide knockout competitions the “Maurice Ashwin Portrait Trophy” and new for digital the “Jim Harrison Trophy”.  We enter a number of external competitions and battles with other local clubs and members of the L&CPU and it’s a great chance to meet members of other societies, visit their clubs and view their work.  You can see examples of past competition entries in our Gallery.

 

The full competition rules are available from Mary Seaton (Competition Secretary) or Tom Seaton (Secretary) and are also available on the Downloads page, but in brief:

Entries

Competition Entries whether slides, prints or digital images are normally required to be submitted 3 weeks before the date the particular competition will be judged (See this year's Programme for details).  There are General and Beginners classes for all the competitions (please tell the Competition Secretary which class you want to compete in).  Slides and Prints must only be identified with the competitor's membership number and the title (plus stating whether they’re Digitally produced and/or modified).  Digital images will be identified by an appropriate filename format which will be published before the competitions.

Slides

Slides can be home or trade processed and marked with a coloured spot placed in the bottom left-hand corner of the slide when the image is viewed from the correct side and right way up.

Prints

Colour prints can be home or trade processed, Monochrome prints must be home processed (chemically or digitally).  Prints can be any size but they must be mounted on card mounts up to a maximum mount size of 16" x 20"" (40 x 50 cm) (TIP: if you want your prints to go into some of the external competitions its best to put them in 16” x 20” (40 x 50 cm) mounts.  You can also get a help sheet on mounting prints from the Secretary.)  

Digital Images

Digital Images can be entered on CD, floppy disc (or any other means the Digital Competition Secretary, John Royle, might devise) in JPEG (.jpg) format with an image size of 1024 x 768 pixels and a resolution of 72 dpi (TIP: its best to save them with the sRGB colour profile if you can).  You can get an information sheet on resizing and saving digital images from the Secretary or Digital Competition Secretary.

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