Welcome to Rugeley and Armitage Camera Club

Event Information:

• Competition Rules

  1 Only fully paid up members are eligible to enter club competitions
  2 The competition year is deemed to run from September to June inclusive.
  3 Entry fee for each image entered will be 50p per image ( Print or Digital )
  4 The  number of images for each competition will  be 2 per member. The committee reserve the right to change the number of entries allowed for each section.
  5 The  following club competitions will be held at the discretion of the committee.
  (a) A photographic competition will be held monthly (September to June)
  A specific subject may be introduced for an individual competition
  (b) An ½ year or yearly competition may be held.
  (c) A President’s or Chairperson’s competition may be held, subject and date at the President’s or Chairperson’s discretion.
  (d) Digital projected image (DPI) competitions may be included in the programme.
  (e) Trophies will be presented to the three members who accumulate the most points in each competition section  during the year.
  6 All club competitions will be divided into 3  sections, Advanced, Intermediate and Elementary
  7 The following points system will be implemented for all monthly club photographic competitions.
  Each print  will be given a mark out of 20.These marks will form the basis of the League tables.
  The  monthly competition marks will be added together to decide the winner of each section for the year.
  The final league tables of the  photographic year will also be used for the promotion from one section to another. The first four In the Elementary and the first four in the
  Intermediate sections being promoted to the Intermediate and Advanced sections respectively.
  The committee reserve the right to move a member between sections if they believe it is beneficial for member and in the best interest of the competition.
  8 A competitions secretary will be nominated by the committee.
  9 All print entries to be handed to the competitions secretary at least 7 days prior to the competition or as otherwise specified by the  competitions secretary or committee. Digital entries are required 14 days prior – due to the additional preparation time required.
  10  All print entries must have typed or neatly written on in  block capitals on reverse of mount in top left corner:
  1 Title of print, 2 Section entered, 3 Members name, 4  Club name.
  11 A judge for each competition will be nominated by the Competitions  Secretary
  12 The judge for the competition will give marks as per rule 7
  13 The committee reserves the right to withdraw an entry to a competition or ask a
  judge to only comment on an  entry, if they believe it to be: (a) outside the scope of a themed competition. (b) Offensive  in a sexual nature, (c) Depicting images of an explicitly or inappropriate  kind, (d) Not the entrants original work, (e) oversize mount (see 18).
  14 The judges decision is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into with regards to the result
  15 Members will remain in their section  for the Camera Club year i.e. September to June. New members will be allocated a section by the Competitions Secretary after consultation with the new member.
  16 Once an image has been used in a monthly competition, it cannot be used in any other monthly club competition.
  17 Images used in any previous year’s club competitions cannot be eused in either the same or a different format in any other club competition.
  18 Print competition entries must be mounted, and have a maximum mount size of 16” x 20” inches (400x500mm), The Image size and placement within the mount is at  the authors discretion.
  19 Digital  competition images must be in jpeg format. Images must be in sRGB colour  space. Images should be no larger than 1024px wide  and 768px high with one dimension (width or height) at its maximum. PPI is not specific but 72ppi is optimum.
  20 Copyright of all images making up an entry must rest with the entrant, images containing ‘clip art’ or stock photos are not permitted except in the audio-visual competition.
  21 In a AV competition members may enter a single digital sequence with a maximum running time of 8 minutes. The sequence must be playable on a windows computer and the author’s name must not appear in the sequence. Image size and aspect ratio are at the authors discretion, but for best results the image should be no larger than 1920 x 1080 pixels.