1. The NAPC Photographer of the Year award is presented to the member who has gained the highest total of points from the monthly competitions of that season, across both sections.

 

2. Two NAPC Season awards are made to recognise the season winners for the aggregate points in each of the two monthly sections (Print and DPI).

 

3. NAPC Image of the Year awards are made to the winners of each of the three annual sections (Colour Print, Mono Print, and DPI)

 

 

 

Rule 1          Members must have photographed the entries themselves, including those used in digital work. Copies or derivatives of other people’s work will not be accepted into any competition.

 

Rule 2          Members may enter TWO prints MAXIMUM. They can be two mono prints OR two colour prints OR one print of each (mono/colour). 

 

Rule 3          Members may enter THREE digitally projected images MAXIMUM.  DPI filenames must be designated _01, _02 and _03.  In the event of a high number of competition entries, digital image _03 will be withdrawn.  The withdrawn image may be entered in a subsequent monthly competition.

 

Rule 4          There will be five monthly rounds, four with an open theme, and one with set subject(s).  There is no time limit as to when the pictures were taken for the Open rounds, but in the set subject competition, prints should have been taken within the last two years, and DPI should have been taken over the past 12 months.

 

Rule 5          Entries must be presented on the dates indicated in the programme.

 

Rule 6          Judges are asked to give maximum consideration to the critique of all entries, particularly to help the less experienced photographers.  The judges are also asked to grade any number of images, which they consider to be of extra merit, using the categories Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Highly Commended.  Some will indicate a “near-miss”.

 

For the purpose of the end of the year awards, (Photographer, Print Worker and DPI Worker of the Year), all entered images will receive at least one point, whilst Highly Commended to Gold will receive a total of 2 to 5 points respectively.

 

Rule 7          Any Print or DPI may be submitted for a monthly competition only once. If the image is subsequently produced in a different format it may be submitted once again, but not in the same season.  Images entered into “Images of the Year” only, may be re-used in a monthly competition in a subsequent season.

 

Rule 8          To be eligible for any competition, the entrant must be a fully subscribed member of Newton Abbot Photographic Club.

 

Rule 9          Titles are required for Digitally projected Images.  Titles are optional but preferred for prints.  There must be no names on entries, only the membership number.

 

Rule 10        All submissions must be accompanied by completed entry forms, downloadable from the Club Website.

 

 

1.   Entries to be mounted on card (or similar) to a maximum size of 50cm by   40cm including the mount.

 

2.   Framed or glass mounted submissions cannot be accepted.

 

1.  Digitally projected Images may be sourced from either digital camera files, or digitally scanned objects and / or photographic film images.

 

2.  All entries must be submitted on a memory device with a USB plug, containing only the entered files.  Sticks must be placed in the designated box, and must be clearly marked with both the owner’s name and membership number. 

 

3.  Files must be carefully named to include your chosen title (max 30 characters), prefixed with your membership number, (using a 3 digit format - i.e filled with zeros where necessary), followed by _01, _02, or _03.

 

Example filename             010_01 Cat in a Coal-shed.jpg

 

     Your title should reflect your exact requirements, including capitalisation and spaces, with hyphens,        ( - ), only where appropriate.  The use of _01, _02, _03, i.e. an underscore followed by the 2-digit number, is new in 2011, and is fundamental to the competition software now used by NAPC.  It also continues to allow the flexibility to limit entry numbers when required. 

 

     Incorrectly named files continue to cause considerable extra time in competition preparation.  The organisers take no responsibility for misinterpreting the entrants requirements when not in the above format.

 

4.  JPG files should be provided within a 1400 x 1050 pixel overall landscape format, and must not exceed 1.5MB.  The maximum width for a landscape image is therefore 1400 pixels, and the maximum height for a portrait image is 1050 pixels.  A 1400 x 1050 jpg image, at quality 10 or higher in Photoshop, will normally be less than 1.5MB.    When resizing in the Image Size Windows Dialog box of your software, only the pixel width and height are important - ignore document physical width, height, and pixels per inch (ppi).

 

5.  Files are best provided with exactly 1400 x 1050 pixels, including a black canvas fill.  All pixels will then be shown by the projector without any further re-sampling or scaling. The actual photographic image content may be of any size, orientation and aspect ratio, at or within this 1400 x 1050 pixel file format.

 

 

6.  Digital projectors are designed for use with images prepared in the sRGB colour space ICC profile. NAPC, in common with most clubs, now uses competition software which will remake your image if it is not provided in this colour space, or is over-size.  All image editors – e.g. Photoshop, give the entrant the facility to provide SRGB originals.

 

1.   Each member may enter a maximum of THREE Prints and THREE Digitally projected Images (DPI).  The prints may be two Colour (max) plus one Mono, OR two Mono (max) plus one Colour.

 

2.   Images may be new or previously entered in the monthly competition.