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Competition Rules  

MONTHLY COMPETITION – Effective from 1st January 2012

Categories and Numbers of Entries

1. There shall be a photographic competition open to financial members of NEPG each month except December (unless otherwise resolved by the Committee or the Club).

2. At each such monthly competition, up to 3 entries per member will be accepted with a maximum of 2 entries in any of the following categories:

a) Open monochrome prints. The definition of monochrome, for the purposes of a monthly competition, is: “any image containing shades of black, white or a single colour. If toning is carried out, it must be over the total photograph.”

b) open colour prints;

c) subject (see program) prints; can be either colour or mono

d) open projected images.

e) subject (see program) projected images.

f) novice projected images. Members qualify as Novices until such time as either: they have accumulated a total of 24 points in this category, or they have submitted an entry in any of the categories ‘a’ to ‘e’ above. Upon graduation as described above the Novice member shall be entitled to enter all other competition categories. The normal rules concerning total number of images submitted on a competition night shall then apply.

NB All entries (except projected images) must be received by the CD no later than 7.15 pm on the evening of the competition. Projected images must be received by the CD’s nominee by 7.00 pm on the Saturday preceding the competition; i.e. 2 days before competition.

 

Presentation of Images

3. No part of a print entry, including its mat, or other mount, shall fall outside the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 500mm by 400mm. A print is required to be matted or mounted but shall not be framed.

4. No print entry shall show the name of the author on its face.

5. The name of each print, its author and the category in which it is entered shall be printed legibly at the top left hand corner of the back of the entry. Each digital file entered must have a name. (The number assigned to it by the camera is not sufficient).

6. Each print shall be displayed in the orientation indicated by the markings referred to in rule 5, unless the CD decides otherwise.

7. Digital files submitted for the projected images section must be no longer than 1024 pixels along the longer side or 762 pixels along the shorter side and must not exceed 800 kb.

 

Originality

8. Subject to the following rules, each entry shall have been created by the member entering it.

9. An entry shall be deemed to have been created by a member if:

(a) In the case of an image made by a single exposure, ("a single image") the moment at which the image was captured was determined by the member;

(b) In the case of an entry comprising separately mounted single images, (such as a diptych) each single image would be acceptable under paragraph (a).

(c) In the case of an entry comprising more than 1 single image, which are not separately mounted, each single image would be acceptable under paragraph (a).

10. It is not necessary that a print (whether colour or monochrome) have been printed by the member entering it.

 

Digital, Age, Repetition etc

11. Any involvement of a digital process in the origination, manipulation, storage or printing of an entry is irrelevant to its eligibility.

12. No entry in a monthly competition shall comprise or include a single image which was originated more than 3 years before that competition. A member's entry shall be rejected if, in the opinion of the CD, it is substantially the same as an image created by that member (in whatever format) more than 3 years before that competition.

13. No image may be entered more than once in a monthly competition.

 

ANNUAL COMPETITION

14. There shall be a photographic competition open to financial members of NEPG each December (unless otherwise resolved by the Committee or the Club).

15. At each such annual competition, entries will be received (by a date to be determined by the Committee) in the following categories.

(a) monochrome prints,

(b) colour prints;

(c) projected images

(d) novice projected images

Note: there will be no subject category at the annual competition.

16. Any member may submit up to two entries in each category up to a total of 6, provided each entry was validly entered in a monthly competition under rule 1 in that calendar year. The entry need not have previously won a place.

17. Entries in the annual competition shall be the actual entry in the monthly competition earlier that year, and shall not be rematted, copied, reprinted, cropped or otherwise altered. In the case of entries which have been damaged or lost since they were entered in the monthly competition, the CD shall have a discretion to allow a departure from this rule.

 

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

18. Each entrant in monthly competition categories ‘a’ to ‘e’ shall accrue points according to the following: 10 points for a first place, 8 points for a second place, 6 points for a third place, and 4 points for a merit.

19. The Photographer of the Year Title will be awarded to the financial member who accrues the most points under rule 18, in the calendar year for which the Title is awarded. The CD's decision as to the identity of the winner of the Title shall be final.

 

COMPETITION DIRECTOR

20. At each Annual General Meeting or as soon as possible afterwards, the members shall appoint a Competition Director for the year following the AGM.

21. The functions and powers of the CD shall be:

(a) To receive the entries for each NEPG monthly, annual and other competition from financial members of NEPG. In case of a dispute as to whether a member is financial, the CD shall rely on the treasurer's advice;

(b) To satisfy himself that each entry meets the definition of any subject for which it is entered, and if not satisfied, to have the question of whether the entry meets the definition referred to the meeting;

(c) To satisfy himself that each entry meets the requirements of these rules, and if not satisfied, to have the question of whether the entry meets the requirements, referred to the meeting;

(d) To display each entry for judging;

(e) To record the entries and their results, and provide the records to the secretary or nominee as soon as possible, for safe keeping;

(f) To do everything necessary to facilitate the judging of the entries, including providing the judge with the equipment necessary to carry out the judging and record his/her results;

(g) To record the points earned by members towards the Photographer of the Year Title, to calculate the winner of that Title and announce the winner at the annual competition;

(h) To amalgamate categories referred to in rules 2 and 15 when there are insufficient entries in one or more categories for a viable competition;

 

DISPUTES

22. If the Competition Director (CD) considers that an entry:

(a) is too late for acceptance,

(b) does not meet the definition of the subject in which it is entered: The CD shall advise the Member of the entry that he/she is considering rejection of it, and why, and shall take into account any response the member may make. The CD may also then confer with the competition committee before deciding whether to reject the entry.

The CD's decision will be final.

If, before the entry is judged, the CD fails to advise the author of the entry that the CD is not satisfied that the entry meets the definition of the subject or the requirements of these rules, it shall be taken that the entry meets the definition of the subject and meets the requirements of these rules. However, rule 22 does not validate an entry submitted by a person who is not a financial member at the time the entry is judged, or an entry which infringes rule 2.