Bournemouth Electric Camera Club

Club Competitions and Guidelines

BOURNEMOUTH ELECTRIC CAMERA CLUB COMPETITIONS RULES

It is very important to start punctually so that visiting Judges are not kept waiting.

Work for submission to competitions must be presented ten minutes before start (i.e. 7:20pm). The images can be either colour, black and white, or monochrome unless otherwise stipulated.

Work can only be submitted a maximum of 2 occasions without the author being present for the competition, except in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Committee. If the author will be away for a competition, prints can be given to another member to enter on their behalf, but digital images must be e-mailed to Nick Leonard ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) at least 7 days prior to the competition.

All images should not have been entered into a competition for another club, so that the images can be used by our Club in future SAPA competitions.

If the content of an image is deemed to be inappropriate, does not meet the conditions set out in the Competition Rules or does not comply with any set subject, the Committee reserve the right to withdraw that entry from the competition.

All prints must be mounted on card, with the mount being a maximum of 40cm x 50cm.

All digital images must be sized to a maximum of 1400 pixels wide x 1050 pixels high, and saved as a jpeg file.

The following naming protocol must be used when submitting the images:

Title_Name_Comp_X_mmmyy.jpg

Title:     Title of image                                        Name: Author’s name

Comp: Name of competition                              X: Image order – A, B, C or D

mmmyy: Month and year of competition                         .jpg: File extension

(please note and include the underscores)

Natural History Competition

• A panel of 4 prints and / or 4 digital images
• All images to be of the same subject
• Images must be labelled A, B, C and D – in the order to be displayed
• The panel should have a title – the judge will be informed of the title
• Must be work that has not been previously entered into a competition
• The judge will be asked to choose the panels they rate as 1st, 2nd and 3rd and any highly commended
• The prints and digital images can be entered into a future competition

Portrait Competition

• A maximum of 4 prints and / or 4 digital images
• The images must have a title – the judge will not be informed of the title as per SAPA rules
• Images must be labelled A, B, C and D – images labelled D may not be shown if there are too many entries in the competition
• Must be work that has not been previously entered into a competition
• The judge will be asked to choose the images they rate as 1st, 2nd and 3rd and any highly commended
• The prints and digital images can be entered into a future competition

Black and White or Monochrome Competition

• A maximum of 4 prints (no digital images)
• Images can be either black and white or monochrome
• The images must have a title – the judge will not be informed of the title as per SAPA rules
• Images must be labelled A, B, C and D – images labelled D may not be shown if there are too many entries in the competition
• Must be work that has not been previously entered into a competition
• The judge will be asked to choose the images they rate as 1st, 2nd and 3rd and any highly commended
• The prints can be entered into a future competition

Set Subject & Open Competitions

• A maximum of 2 prints and / or 2 digital images in both the Set Subject and Open Competitions
• The images must have a title – the judge will not be informed of the title as per SAPA rules
• The images entered into the Set and Open Competitions must be labelled A and B – images labelled B for the Open Competition may not be shown if there are too many entries in the competition
• Must be work that has not been previously entered into a competition and received a score
• The judge will be asked to mark the images out of 10 – the person with the highest total score in each competition will win that competition. The judge will also be asked to choose the best print and digital image of each competition. The score for the set subject will be doubled.

Open Only Competition

• A maximum of 4 prints and / or 4 digital images can be entered into an Open Only Competition
• The images must have a title – the judge will not be informed of the title as per SAPA rules
• Images must be labelled A, B, C and D – images labelled D may not be shown if there are too many entries in the competition
• Must be work that has not been previously entered into a competition and received a score
• The judge will be asked to mark the images out of 10 – the person with the highest total score in each competition will win that competition. The judge will also be asked to choose the best print and digital image of each competition

Print and Digital Image of the Year Competitions

• A maximum of 4 prints and 4 digital images
• The images must have been work previously entered into a competition within the current season
• The images must have a title – the judge will not be informed of the title as per SAPA rules
• Images must be labelled A, B, C and D – images labelled D may not be shown if there are too many entries in the competition
• The judge will be asked to choose the images they rate as 1st, 2nd and 3rd and any highly commended

Trophies

The trophies will be awarded at the AGM and held for one year:

Natural History Competition

The Sid Damon Trophy - Prints Panel

The Natural History Trophy - Digital Images Panel

Portrait Competition

The Dave Jackson Trophies - Print competition

- Digital Image competition

Black and White or Monochrome Competition

The Committee Cup

Set & Open Subjects

The Chairman’s Cup - Highest Aggregate Score for Prints in the Set & Open Subjects

C.G.Ward Colour Cup - Highest Aggregate Score for Digital Images in the Set & Open Subjects

The Print Trophies - Highest Aggregate Score for Prints in the Set Subjects

- Highest Aggregate Score for Prints in the Open Subjects

The Crystal Trophy - Highest Aggregate Score for Digital Images in the Set Subjects

The Ron Cannons Trophy - Highest Aggregate Score for Digital Images in the Open Subjects

Print of the Year

The Committee Shield

Digital Image of the Year

The Jack Gower Trophy

Photographer of the Year

The Mike Moores Trophy – Highest Aggregate Score for Prints and Digital Images

Most Improved Photographer During the Year

The Ernie Weetman Trophy - Voted by members