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Through the year we have a series of Monthly Competitions, Inter-club Battles, Portfolio Challenge and also a Themed Competition, scheduled for the end of March, as well as the Chairman’s Challenge, toward the end of April.
These competitions allow us to present our prints and projected images for critical comment by invited judges and give us an idea of how good we really are, or not as the case may be. We hope that such competitions enable us to improve our work by giving us new ideas and pointers as to where we need to be better.
Rules
A downloadable copy of the Competition Rules for the season 2010-2011 is available on the Resources page.
Monthly Competitions
The monthly competitions are divided into three classes, General for those just starting in competitions, Intermediate and Advanced for those with an increasing degree of proficiency and skill. There are four rounds of prints and four rounds of projected images for both classes and all entrants are judged, in their respective class, by the invited judge who awards 1st, 2nd and 3rd places and Highly Commended and Commended at his discretion. Points are awarded according to placings and are used to formulate a league table. At the end of the year the member with the highest score in each section in each class, is awarded the trophy.
Battles
We do battle with other local clubs where each club enters normally 10 prints and 10 projected images, although other combinations may be used dependant on the agreement between the two, or more, Clubs participating. These are displayed before a judge who will give each image a score out of 20. The club which accumulates most points is declared the winner. It is a simple formula but is a good evenings entertainment.
Portfolio
Entrants submit a panel of 3 prints before a judge, with the best panel, in his opinion, being declared the winner. The prints are linked together by a theme of the author's choice.
Projected Image Knockout
When held, each entrant can submit a prescribed number of projected images, on any topic. The images are shown two at a time and by a simple process of elimination, the judge will declare the winner to be the image which, again in his opinion, is the best. These events are generally good fun and not taken too seriously.
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Themed Competition
This is a relatively new competition and is aimed at the production of never before seen work and is an open competition with no class divisions; the rules of which are available within the published Competition Rules. This season’s Themed Competition, on 27th March, has as it’s theme, “Olympic Sports”. Specifically that is any sport listed on the London 2012 web site, including Paralympic sports. The images do not have to be taken at the Olympic Games, but be representative of the sport and taken anywhere where these sports are carried out, either during competition or at training sessions. The title must specify the sport portrayed. Check out the list at http://www.london2012.com/sport.
Chairmans Challenge
This competition has been running for a few years now and always proves popular. Basically, the Chairman sets a photographic challenge to the members and, on the designated evening, acts as judge and jury before declaring an outright winner.
The format and rules for this year’s competition can be found on the Resources page.
Awards
The Monthly Competitions are running events, with the award winner being the photographer who has accumulated most points from the four rounds, in each category and in each Class. The other one-off competitions also attract awards and these are all presented at the end of the season at the Presentation Evening.
Once again this year, scores collected from all competitions apart from the Chairman’s Challenge, as stated in the published Rules, count towards the title of “Photographer of the Year” or more commonly know as POTY.
