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Please go to the appropriate section and read carefully as if your entries do not comply with the rules they may be rejected from the competitions. If you need any assistance please ask one of the committee, or a more experienced member of the club.
General (applies to all internal competitions),
- Members can enter up to 3 prints or digital images into each internal club competition.
- If the number of images entered for a competition is very high, it may be necessary to restrict the overall numbers in order to keep it manageable. If this is the case then all members who have entered 3 images will have the third one left out of the competition. All entries (digital and print) should therefore be numbered in order of preference 1, 2 and 3. Should it be necessary to reduce the number of entries, the print / digital image numbered 3 will not be entered into the competition.
Any image which has come in the top three of an internal club competition cannot be entered in any other internal competition (it can be entered in external competitions).
As a member of the club, at the beginning of the year you will need to decide whether you are going to submit images into the Class A or Class B. You cannot move between classes during the year and you cannot enter images into both classes.
Class A - For more advanced photographers - maximum print size A3.
Class B - For beginners and intermediate photographers - maximum print size A4.
At the end of the season, the top three winners in the B class will have to move up to the A class. The bottom three in A can choose to move down into B if they wish.
In a change to the previous arrangements, for the 2010/11 season Print and Digital competitions will be held on separate evenings and will both include an A and B class.
All prints to be mounted on board 500mm x 400mm. Note - the club purchases boards in bulk and members can buy these for £1 per board (please contact David Chedgy).
The back of the mounts must show:
Class entered (A or B),
Competition Title and date
FWCC Membership Number (shown on your membership card).
Title of the print.
1, 2, or 3 to show your order of preference.
Your name must not be shown anywhere on the print or mount.
A sheet of entry forms can be downloaded from the website (click here) - you can use these on the back of the mount if you wish.
All images must be submitted on a CD (preferred option) or a memory stick. Please make sure that you clearly label the CD or memory stick with your name if you wish to have them returned.
Images should be resized to 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels high - in effect, this means that Landscape format images must not be more than 1024 pixels wide and Portrait format images must not be more than 768 pixels high. Resolution should be 72 pixels p/inch (ppi).
Files should be Jpeg (other file types eg Tiff will not be accepted.
They should be saved with a colour profile of sRGB which is ideal for viewing online
Name each file you enter with:
1, 2, or 3 to show your order of preference.
Title of the image the image
FWCC Membership Number (shown on your membership card)
They must be saved with the file name in the following format: 02 Sunset over Paris_25 where number 02 in your second choice for order of preference, the image title is "Sunset over Paris", and your membership number is 25. Note - there is a space between the choice for entry and the title, you can have spaces between the image title, but please use an underscore between the title and your membership number.
