Camera Club

BI-MONTHLY COMPETITION

ANNUAL EXHIBITION

CHAIRMAN'S TROPHY COMPETITION

A. MAURICE SMITH COMPETITION

OUTING TROPHY COMPETITION

ANNUAL PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION

GOSLING TROPHY COMPETITION

GENERAL RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL COMPETITORS AND EXHIBITORS

1. All competitors in any club competition must be fully paid up members.
2. The aims and objectives of the club are to promote the highest standards of Photography by familiarisation with camera functions and techniques and to encourage the art and craft of self processing of images from image concept and capture through to image output, be it in print or projected image form. Professional assistance is permitted at any or all of the intervening stages between image capture and final presented image.
3. It is the responsibility of all trophy winners to maintain their trophies in good condition and to ensure that the trophies are engraved with the necessary details at their own expense.
4. Excepting Bi-Monthly Trophies, winners shall hold competition trophies for one year.
5. All trophies shall remain the property of Normanton Camera Club and shall be returned at any time when asked by any committee member.
6. Unmounted prints are ineligible for all competitions and exhibition.
7. Member Competition Levels:-
1. Beginner – Deemed to be any member who has never won a major award in any competition at this club or any other club or major photographic competition.
2. Intermediate – Deemed to be any member who has never won a major category other than the relevant beginners’ trophy at Bi-Monthly or Annual Exhibition Level, or a major award at any other club or photographic competition. Intermediates compete at advanced level with regards to Projected Images.
3. Advanced – Deemed to be any member not falling into Beginner or Intermediate Groupings

BI-MONTHLY COMPETITION

1. This is club competition intended as a trial ground for future possible exhibition or competition quality entries
2. CATEGORIES:-
1. Beginners Prints, either monochrome or colour
2. Intermediate Prints , either monochrome or colour
3. Advanced monochrome Prints.
4. Advanced Colour Prints.
5. Beginners Projected Image
6. Advanced . Projected Image
3. Any member in the Beginner or Intermediate categories may, if they so wish, compete in classes at a higher level, but it they do so then may not revert back to the lower category in this or other competition.
4. Entries of one print and one projected image may be made in any or all categories of relevant level:- e.g. Beginner may put one prints and one projected image in the beginners categories, Advanced workers may enter a projected image along with single prints in each of the advanced categories – monochrome & colour.
5. An award will be made in each section and trophies are kept by the round winners until the next round.
6. Overall competition winners are members amassing the highest grand points total at the end of round five. The overall winners being presented with their awards at the Annual Exhibition and holding same until Bi-Monthly re-starts.
7. All entries will be taken and judged on the night of the competition.
8. Prints may be any size from 10” x 8” upwards (trimming allowed) and mounted but not bigger than 400 x 500 mm including mount.
9. Prints and Projected Images having won a first, second or third award at any Annual Exhibition may not be entered for competition but non award winners or “Highly Commended” exhibition entries are eligible.
10. No print, similar print from the same negative or projected image may be entered in more than one bi-monthly round.
11. If a member has a genuine reason for missing a round he or she can, in the following round only have two highest marks carried forward.
12. Entries may be handed in, in advance, to the competition secretary by members taking holidays on competition dates, or due to shift work etc.
13. All entries are eligible for other competitions and Annual Exhibition (excluding header’s Trophy)

ANNUAL EXHIBITION

1. Classes of entry per category shall be as above
2. Intermediate print workers may enter any or all of the advanced classes and compete with entrants on an equal basis.
1. The back of prints entered by Intermediate level members must be marked with the prominent letter ‘I’.
2. On the Annual Exhibition entry form, the check box for Intermediate print must be ticked in addition to the relevant advanced category
3. Entries thus marked will be eligible for the Intermediate Print Trophy award.
3. Beginners or Intermediates winning the relevant category in the preceding rounds of the Bi-Monthly Competition are eligible to enter the Annual Exhibition for that year in the same category.
4. Members may enter all the classes open to them.
5. The maximum number of prints or projected images which a member may enter into one class is at the discretion of the member but a grand total of no more than 8 prints and or 8 projected images.
6. All prints or projected images which have been entered for any previous Annual Exhibition are ineligible for entry.
7. All prints or projected images which have won major awards in exhibitions at other clubs or major photographic competitions and exhibitions are ineligible for entry.
8. No entry for Annual Exhibition should be more than 5 years old.
9. No image exhibited in any chosen mode or medium shall be exhibited in another mode or medium in the same years exhibition i.e. a chosen image in colour print form should not be exhibited in the same exhibition as a mono print or projected image.

CHAIRMAN’S TROPHY COMPETITION

1. All members, whether Beginner, Intermediate or Advance compete on an equal basis with no handicapping.
2. This club competition has imposed upon it a maximum print size of A4 (mount may be larger)
3. Entries may be monochrome or colour prints or a mixture of both with a maximum number of three entries per member. (All entries should be mounted)
4. Entries should be NEW WORK, i.e. work not previously exhibited in any form at an Annual Exhibition or any other competition.
5. No print may be entered in more than one header’s Trophy Competition.
6. All entries for the competition to be handed in on the date stipulated in the Syllabus.
7. All entries are eligible for entry into the Annual Exhibition.

A. MAURICE SMITH COMPETITION

1. This club competition is based upon a handicap system so that beginners may compete on equal terms with advanced workers.
2. The Entry for the competition shall consist of three prints:- monochrome, colour or mixed.
3. Entry may be a total of three prints of one class (e.g. three portrait, three record) or three mixed prints from multiple classes.
4. Entries may be any size from 10” x 8” up to 400 x 500 mm maximum (including mount).
5. Prints having won a first, second or third award at any Annual Exhibition may not be entered for competition, but non-award or “Highly Commended” exhibition entries are eligible.
6. No print may be entered in more than one A. Maurice Competition.
7. HANDICAPS These shall be as follows:
1. Competitors having received a “Best Print in Exhibition” award at any Annual Exhibition - Minus three points (mark out of ten basis) - Minus six points (marks out of twenty basis).
2. Competitors having previously won the A. Maurice Smith Trophy – - Minus two points (marks out of ten basis) - Minus four points (marks out of twenty basis).
8. All entries for the competition to be handed in on the date stipulated in the Syllabus.
9. All entries are eligible for entry into Annual Exhibition UNLESS PREVIOUSLY ENTERED

OUTING TROPHY COMPETITION

1. All entries for the competition must have been taken on an official club outing which has taken place after the submission date of the preceding years Outing Trophy Competition.
2. All entrants in both the print and projected image classes shall compete on an equal basis with no handicapping.
3. Entry for the competition shall consist of a maximum of one print and or one projected image per outing (e.g. six outings maximum six prints and or six projected images)
4. All entries for the competition to be handed in on the date stipulated on the Syllabus.
5. All entries are eligible for entry into the Annual Exhibition

ANNUAL PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION

1. This ‘club’ competition is based upon a handicap system so that beginners may compete on equal terms with advanced workers.
2. The Entry for the competition shall consist of three digital projected images:- monochrome, colour or mixed.
3. Entry may be a total of three digital projected images of one class (e.g. three portrait, three record) or three mixed digital projected images from multiple classes.
4. Projected Images having won a first, second or third award at any Annual Exhibition may not be entered for competition, but non award or “Highly Commended” exhibition entries are eligible.
5. No digital projected image may be entered in more than one Annual projected image competition.
6. HANDICAPS These shall be as follows:
1. Competitors having received a “Best Projected Image in Exhibition” award at any Annual Exhibition - Minus three points (marks out of ten basis) - Minus six points (marks out of twenty basis).
2. Competitors having previously won the Annual Colour Projected Image Competition - Minus two points (marks out of ten basis) - Minus four points (marks out of twenty basis).
7. All entries for the competition to be handed in on the date stipulated in the Syllabus.
8. All entries are eligible for entry into the Annual Exhibition UNLESS PREVIOUSLY ENTERED.

GOSLING TROPHY COMPETITION

1. The competition is for a ‘set’ or ’panel’ of three related prints (maximum size 400 x 500 mm)
2. The entry panel may be three separate, individual prints with the layout order marked clearly on the rear of the prints (i.e. 1,2, & 3) or may be three prints mounted on one board.
3. The entries must be ‘related’ – but that relationship may be according to the author’s design (i.e., by subject matter, shapes, colour etc.) - this is the author’s choice.
4. No panel or set of prints may be entered in more than one Gosling Trophy Competition
5. All entries for the competition to be handed in on the date stipulated on the Syllabus.
6. All individual print entries are eligible for entry In the Annual Exhibition.
7. A separate section for Beginners is incorporated into this competition (with separate trophy). Prints to have ‘B’ clearly marked on the rear. Rules 1 to 6 fully applicable