Competition Rules

Wantage Camera Club Competition Rules.

  1. Only fully paid up members are eligible to enter club competitions.
  2. The competition year is deemed to run from January to December.
  3. Competition entries must be handed to the competition Secretary at least one week before the competition unless otherwise specified. Digital images uploaded via the WCC website must also be uploaded one week before the competition unless otherwise specified.
  4. Entries in all formats must follow this format: Firstname Lastname_Title of image.
  5. Once an image has been used in any competition included in the “Silver Jubilee” or “White Rose” cumulative points competitions it may not be used again in any format in any of these competitions. Images used in the AV Competition, Photo Trek and Chairman’s Choice Competitions can therefore be used in the “Silver Jubilee” and “White Rose” competitions.
  6. Entries for the End of Year Competitions: (Print of the Year/Projected Image of the Year) must be drawn from your competition entries through the year in that competition’s format. This includes any open or set subject competition for the format and other competitions such as Chairman’s Choice, Photo Trek, Set of Three and 3-in-1 competitions.
  7. Print competition entries must be mounted, subject to a maximum mount size of 16×20 inches. The image size and placement within the mount is at the author’s discretion.
  8. Projected competition images must be in JPEG format, sized for a maximum width of 1600 pixels x maximum height of 1200 pixels unless otherwise directed. The longest side must be greater than 800px, Colour space sRGB.
  9. 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 competitions.
  10. An image used by a photographer may not be so similar to a previously entered image as to be deemed identical.
  11. Any entries that do not comply with these rules will be excluded from the competitions.

 

 

 
 
Print Competitions

All entries must be accompanied by a jpg for projection, matching so far as possible the cropping of the print. All entries will be marked out of twenty.

Open Subject: Print Competition Shield

Held over two rounds, members may enter up to three prints per round. All entries count towards the member’s total score and the member with the highest aggregate score wins the Shield.

Set Subjects: Members may enter one print per subject:

‘Wildlife Image’ must be a wild, live, bird, mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, insect, flower, lichen or fungi photographed on the mainland, inshore waters or islands making up the British Isles. Post processing must be limited to cropping, minor overall colour correction and sharpening only. No other manipulation will be allowed. The highest scoring entry will win the Mull Chalice.

‘Close-up or Still Life’ The highest score will be awarded the Maisie Telling Trophy.

‘The Dorothy Tarry Landscape Trophy’ Members may enter one print of a landscape taken in the UK. Post processing must be limited to cropping, minor overall colour correction and sharpening only. The highest scoring print will be awarded the Dorothy Tarry Trophy. 

The Set Subject Print Trophy

Shall be awarded for the highest points overall from the set subject competitions above.

Print of the Year:  Stevenson Cup

Members can enter a single print chosen from their entries in any print competition of that year.

Silver Jubilee Trophy

In all print competitions the scores achieved are accumulated. The member with the highest grand total at the end of the year is awarded the Trophy.

 

 

Projected Image Competitions All entries will be marked out of twenty.

Open Subject:  Open Projected Image Competition Shield

Held over three rounds, members may enter up to three images per round. All entries count and the member with the highest aggregate score over the three rounds wins the Shield.

The Anniversary Competition Shield

Members may enter two projected images. The highest scoring image will win the shield.

Projected Image of the year:   Digigroup Trophy

Members may enter a single projected image from your entries in any projected image competition over the year.

White Rose Trophy

In all of the Projected Image competitions above, the scores achieved are accumulated. The member with the highest grand total at the end of the year is awarded the Trophy

The Jim Merryweather Trophy

The member with the highest total achieved by combining the Silver Jubilee and White Rose Trophy points is awarded the Jim Merryweather Trophy. i.e. The Best All Round Photographer.

The Rodney Deval Achievement Trophy

This trophy is to recognise a member who has consistently achieved a high standard in competitions but has not won any trophy presented by the Club.  It is awarded to the member with the highest total points in the results for the Jim Merryweather Trophy, but who has not won any cup, shield or trophy in the current year (including the Chairman’s Choice Cup, Photo Trek Goblet or Hazel Trophy).  It may not be won by the same member in two consecutive years; in the case that a member qualifies for the trophy for a second year, it is awarded instead to the member with the next highest points total in the Jim Merryweather Trophy results.

 

Miscellaneous

The results of the following four competitions do not carry forward to any other competitions or trophies. See “Instructions to the Judge” for how these are marked.

Chairman’s Choice:  Chairman’s Choice Cup

Format and entry requirements are set by the Chairman each year; See the club programme for details.

Photo Trek:  Photo Trek Goblet

A competition of set subjects drawn from a given location. The images must have been taken during the months specified, submitted as jpg files and titled as shown in the Photo Trek instructions for that year.

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