This competition will go ahead - though not in the usual time-honoured fashion.
After discussion with the judge, Rosemary Wilman HonFRPS AFIAP BPE5*, we plan that the judges’ comments and awards will be at a meeting using the Zoom app, on the evening already scheduled for the competition - that is the 20 May. Further details regarding logging onto the on-line meeting will be circulated closer to the date - so watch this space.
The closing date for entries will remain as the 29 April, so you have nearly 3 weeks to prepare your entry, which should be plenty of time.
Rosemary has already judged two competitions in this way and has found it a useful way for clubs to keep their activities continuing in some manner at the present time.
Ken Clarke
Projected Image Competition Secretary
Annual Projected Image Competition.
This competition consists of the usual Club, Intermediate and Advanced levels and in addition, there is a Nature section which does not distinguish between Club, Intermediate and Advanced entrants but is open to all. Anyone wishing to enter the Nature section must indicate the entries with the appropriate identification (see rules below). Members may submit a maximum of 4 PI images. These must be numbered in the entrant’s preferred order, as all image 4s may be excluded if the total entry in a competition is excessive. In addition to the usual awards at each level, the judge is asked to select the Best Travel, People, Action, Landscape and Monochrome pictures from the whole entry (i.e. all levels). One or more of these awards may well go to an image that gains another award. The overall winner's trophy will be presented for the best image in each competition at the AGM. The trophy will be awarded for one of the 1st place images.
COMPETITIONS - RULES FOR ENTRIES
Projected Image Competitions – Rules for Entry
1 Send an email with your images as attachments to
competitions@ bristolphoto.org.uk and put the name of the competition in the subject line. When your images have been checked you will receive an email with a detailed Submission Report. If you do not receive the Submission Report, this may mean your images have not been received.
2 Submissions can only be made by email and are not accepted on the night and cannot be made by CD, flash drive or memory stick.
3 Images must not be greater than 1600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high, so note that Portrait format images must not be more than 1200 pixels high.
4 Send the images as a JPG using the highest quality. (Other file types such as TIFF or PSD will not be accepted).
5 The projector uses the sRGB colour space and hence you should save the images using the sRGB colour profile. Other profiles (such as Adobe98 or ProPhoto) may result in incorrect display of the image.
6 Name each file you enter in the following pattern:
1) 01, 02, 03, etc to show order of preference.
2) Underscore (not a hyphen).
3) Title of the image (which can contain spaces and hyphens but must not contain an underscore).
4) Underscore (not a hyphen).
5) Your Membership Number (If you do not know your number it can be found on your membership card or at the top of your weekly “BPS In Focus” newsletter).
6) W (Club); or X (Intermediates); or Z (Advanced); or Y (Nature) (this latter useable only for the annual PI competition) showing the level for the entry.
Note: there can only be two underscores in the file name, one on each side of the image title. Spaces are to be used only within the image title.
As an example: 01_Morning Light_50W.jpg where number 01 is your first choice for order of preference, the image title is “Morning Light”, your membership number is 50 and ‘W’, denotes your level. There is an underscore between your entry order choice and the title, and there is an underscore between the title and your membership details.
The following is an entry example for the annual PI competition and shows two entries (amongst the total four allowed) in the Nature section:
01_Duck_296Y.jpg, 02_Seascape_296Z.jpg, 03_Bird of Prey_296Y. jpg, 04_Volley_296Z.jpg.
7 Please be aware that the images are processed automatically. Once the e-mailed images have been loaded into the competition software it will reject unacceptable images. The most common reasons are for being oversize (but note that undersize images are accepted), and for image filenames that are not as specified above, for example the filename contains a space outside the image title. Rejected images are reported in the submission report that you will receive
8 The same specifications are to be used when you are submitting images for consideration for other competitions (such as the Inter Club). Although these images need a title and membership number, the sequence number, first underscore and class identifier are ignored and can be omitted. Be sure to put the competition name in the subject line of your email.
