Competition Introduction, Handbook and Rules

Tring competitions are a great way to share your work with other members, get inspiration from those images and obtain feedback for your own images. These are not "cutthroat" events; they are good fun and intended to help you learn. Feel free to approach any members to ask them for guidance.

We have a saying at the club which is to encourage everyone to enter: ‘Don’t be shy, give it a try’!

Key Facts

All Competitions:

To enter

1.       Put 1 or 2 images into the Dropbox folder for the competition that can be found in the folder of your name in your Dropbox

2.       Images should be in jpg or jpeg type and be less than 10MB

3.      You will receive an email confirmation of your entries within 30 minutes

4.       At any time, you can click on the menu item of the competition in the info centre to check they have been received. If this is the first time you have done this, you will need to follow instructions to get a PIN emailed to you

Rules

·       The image must be your own work and not previously entered in another TDCC competition

·       You can submit up to 2 images to each competition

·       Use of post processing is encouraged – it is part of producing a high quality image.

·       Please be aware that if you enter a competition but for some reason, don’t score that competition then your images will have 16 points deducted to balance the scoring.

For Print Competitions:

·       Images should be displayed within a mount not exceeding 50xm x 40cm (16” x 20”)

·       Write the image numbers on the rear (these are emailed to you a few days before the competition).

·       The image size is up to you, most people use A4.

·       A digital entry as above is still required to be placed in Dropbox so we know what the entries are

·       Third Part Printing and/or creation of mounts is permitted

Competitions Overview

We hold 6 competitions each year - 3 are digital and 3 are print. Each member is in one of 3 groups based on their experience as a photographer. This encourages friendly competition between members of similar experience. At the end of the year, for any member who has entered 8 or more images throughout the season, we award to trophy to whoever does best in each group.

All images in these competitions are scored by members and not by a Judge. However, we do have a Judge on the competition evening who gives a critique of at least one image per member who entered the competition.

For Digital (PDI) Competitions, prior to the competition evening, any member of the club can score the images within the Info Centre. The scores are then used to generate the winners and runners-up in each skill group that are then announced on the competition evening.

For print competitions, members also enter their images using Dropbox before the deadline, but on the competition evening, the members bring their mounted prints and place them on display boards. The attendees are then given a scoring sheet so that they can review each print and jot down a score. After the evening the competition team calculate the results and announce them by email.

We encourage everyone to join in, so please read the documents below on how to enter the competitions