For the 2018/19 season, images shall be submitted as jpegs with a maximum of 1600 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high , sRGB colour space. The file name shall be made up of the image title in upper case followed by the # symbol and then the author’s first name and surname (spaces are permitted – except as in the example below – but no other non-alphanumeric characters).
Example:- FULL MOON#Fred Bloggs (Do not have spaces between the last character of the title and the “#” separator, or between the “#” and the start of your name.)
The league shall consist of the 5 open competitions. All these competitions will be points-scoring. The Harris Print Tankard will be awarded by the judge for the best print of the evening at each open competition and is held until the next open competition evening.
The league shall consist of the 5 open competitions. All these competitions will be points-scoring. The PSCC Projected Images Competition Cup will be awarded by the judge for the best projected image of the evening at each open competition and is held until the next open competition evening.
Mono Print of the Year Cup and Mono Competition Trophy (projected images) - For Monochrome images of any subject.
The Creative Cups (prints and projected images) - For unusual/experimental subject and treatments.
The Norman Ludlow Cup (Prints) and People Cup for Projected Image Competitions - For images featuring people.
Baird Trophies (prints and projected images) - For Wildlife photography as defined below. (see additional rules below).
The Landscape Cups (prints and projected images) - For Landscape photography as defined below. (see additional rules below).
John Woodworth Trophy: (Celebrating John’s excellence and creativity as a People, Mono and Landscape Photographer)
Each member who enters this competition must submit 3 PDI images, one being a people photograph, one a landscape and one a mono – the people and landscape images must be colour and the mono can be any subject.
File format and titling as normal but start title with “M“ (M followed by a space) for mono, “P“ for people and “L“ for landscape, then the normal title.
Example:- M THIS IS MY MONO IMAGE#Fred Bloggs
The images will be grouped for marking so all the mono’s will be judged together etc and then the marks for each entrant will be aggregated. The judge will award the trophy to the entrant with the highest number of marks and if there is a tie they will see all the images from the tied authors and decide the winner.
Trophies for the above competitions are held until the next appropriate annual competition.
Print of the Year - A member may enter any print placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd plus up to three other prints previously entered in any of this season's print competitions.
Projected Image of the Year - A member may enter any projected image placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd plus up to two other projected images previously entered in any of this season's projected image competitions.
The Ralph Firmin Tankard - For Audio Visual Presentation (see additional rules below)
The above are non-point scoring; the judge will comment on all images, and choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd and any Highly Commended and Commended images from the entries.
The Print Photographer of the Year - Awarded to the member gaining the most points in the 5 rounds of the print league.
The Projected Image Photographer of the Year - Awarded to the member gaining the most points in the 5 rounds of the projected images league.
The Photographer of the Year - Awarded to the member gaining the most points in all points-scoring competitions both prints and projected images.
Wildlife is defined as animals (living organisms which feed on organic matter) whose normal habitat is not domesticated. Wild animals kept in captivity are eligible, domesticated animals are not.
However, images should also comply with the Royal Photographic Society’s Nature Group rule:
A nature (Wildlife) photograph should convey the essential truth of what the photographer saw at the time it was taken.
No radical changes should be made to the original photograph, nor additions from any source, whether during processing in the darkroom, or through digital/electronic manipulation. The removal of minor blemishes or distractions is permissible.
Landscape Definition: An image that has as its subject an extensive outdoor scene of land, sea, sky or city, with no requirement that land as such be the largest component. It may include individual items of interest like persons, trees, buildings but not if they dominate the image.
The production of the sequence and photography must be the work of the entrant. (Joint authors are permitted).
The duration of the sequence must not exceed 6 minutes.
Entrants may submit more than one sequence, but should indicate their primary sequence and the order in which they would like others shown. The primary sequence is guaranteed to be shown. Other sequences will be shown to fill any time remaining, starting with the earliest submitted CD and stepping through each author to show the next requested.
The image dimensions of the sequence should be a maximum fixed resolution of 1600x1200 and set to play back 'full-screen'. The sequence must be submitted as an executable file compatible with Windows XP operating system for a PC. Sequences must be submitted on a single CD-ROM with the author's name, sequence titles, order of showing and the running times of each, clearly marked.
Entries must be made at least one week prior to the competition to allow the organiser to set up for the competition night.
The author is responsible for ensuring that there is no breach of copyright.