Knutsford Photographic Society   

Competition Rules

General – applying to all competitions
1. The committee takes no responsibility for loss or damage to members prints, digital images or equipment.
2. The committee reserves the right to refuse any competition entry.
3. All prints must be labelled with the title and the author’s name. The maximum mount size is 20” x 16”; there is no minimum size.
4. All digital entries must be submitted in accordance with the detailed guidance given on the Society’s web site.
5. An image that has been submitted in digital form cannot be entered as a print in any competition, and vice versa.
6. The photograph from which a print or digital image has been made must be no more than 4 years old at the date of the competition.

Monthly competitions
1. Monthly competitions are open to images of any type or subject.
2. A member may enter up to three images, which may be prints, digital or any combination up to a maximum of three.
3. Digital images must be brought at least ten minutes before the time of the meeting on the evening of the competition.
4. Prints must be brought on the evening of the competition; but the titles must be handed to the Competition Secretary a week before the competition, or e-mailed to him (jxp1@mac.com) by the Sunday before the competition.
5. The judge will place the top five prints and top five PDIs. Points are awarded as follows: 10 for 1st place, 7 for 2nd, 5 for 3rd, 3 for 4th, and 1 for 5th. Each member’s points are totalled after the last monthly competition to determine the Print and Digital Photographers of the Year.
6. Any slide or print that has been entered in a monthly competition may not be entered in a subsequent monthly competition.
7. Any slide or print that has been entered in a monthly competition may also be entered in an annual competition.

Annual competitions  
1. There are two separate Annual Competitions – one for prints and one for digital images.
2. Each print or digital image must be entered in a particular category. The categories are:
a. Open Colour – any style or subject.
b. People – an image whose main subject is a person or people.
c. Nature – an image whose main subject is drawn from the natural world – e.g. birds, animals, insects, plants, fossils, shells, rocks. Cultivated plants, domesticated animals and zoo animals are allowed.
d. Knutsford – limited to the area of Knutsford bounded by 30 or 40mph speed limits. Tatton Park and mansion are excluded.
e. Pictorial – a picture where the photographer has seen more than just the subject; e.g. unusual lighting, mist, moody, atmospheric, patterns.
f. Record – a complete and accurate record of a man-made object (e.g. building, furniture, machine); should be sharp, accurate, detailed; the title should precisely identify the subject.
g. Open Monochrome - any style or subject.
3. A maximum of 6 prints may be submitted by each member, with a maximum of 2 prints in any category.
4. A maximum of 6 digital images may be submitted by each member, with a maximum of 2 images in any category.
5. No entry may be entered into a subsequent annual competition.
6. Prints and digital images must be handed to the Competition Secretary a week before the relevant competition.
7. Prints submitted to the annual competition will be kept until the autumn, so that a selection from them can be used for the annual exhibition in the Library.
8. Any slide or print that has been entered in an annual competition may also be entered in a monthly competition.

Christmas knockout competition.
1. This is an Open competition, to which each member may submit up to four digital images. Titles are not necessary.
2. These images may have been previously entered in other competitions, and may be entered subsequently in other competitions. No entry may be entered in a subsequent Christmas knockout.
3. Entries must be brought on the night of the competition.

Competition for the Alan Mitchell Salver.
In 2011 this competition will be open to prints only. Each entry must be a triptych, and must be on a mount 50 x 40 cm or smaller. Each member may enter up to three separate triptychs. There is no set subject.
A triptych is a picture in three parts. Originally it referred to three part pictures in hinged frames that were placed on the altars of churches to provide educational and spiritual benefits at the Mass. Since it was hinged in two places it could be folded up and put away between services or transported by the priest to another church.

In photography, a triptych is a picture in three parts. The three parts may be a single picture split into three sections, or three related pictures that are designed to be shown together. For interesting samples of triptychs, go to http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/triptych.html .
Updated March 2010

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