Every month we hold a competition for photographs in which each picture will be scored out of twenty. We invite a guest judge to inspect the pictures, award the scores and comment. The comments will be both technical and artistic, encouraging us to develop our photographic and creative skills and talking about pictures in this way, we develop our own understanding and style. At the end of the year all the points are added up and the winner receives our Photographer of the Year trophy.
These monthly competitions are either for Digital Images or Prints. To enter the Digital Image competitions, members upload the pictures as jpegs in advance and to enter the Print competitions, members bring the Prints, ready for display on the evening.
The competitions may be Open or Set Subject. The Open competitions may have any picture and the Set Subject is asking for pictures that conform to a specific theme. Those requirements are notified in advance through our website. email and social media.
Here are the general rules for our monthly scored competitions.
- Members must be up-do-date with annual and weekly subscriptions, no more than one month in arrears.
- Members may submit a maximum of three images to each competition.
- Each image will be awarded points from a maximum of twenty.
- Images may be colour or monochrome, filters and effects may be applied subject to the specific requirements for a Set Subject.
- Images may be manipulated in post-processing.
- The club member submitting the entry must be the author of the image.
Artificial Intelligence and Post Processing
The committee respectfully asks members not to enter AI generated images as these do not help us to develop our own photographic skills.
We consider that images which have been enhanced by post-processing techniques remain in the ownership of the author but images that have been generated or substantially altered using AI do not and we do not accept AI generated images in our competitions.
Using layers, filters and other enhancements are all acceptable; using AI generation to create a new image is not acceptable, the image has been artificially generated from a sample of internet images and cannot be considered to be the author’s work.