Members choice award rules

A competition to decide the best print, digital & creative photograph for the year as determined by the club membership

General

  1. Open to paid-up club members only
  2. The competition will incorporate 3 sections:
    1. Print of the year
    2. Digital photograph of the year
    3. Creative image of the year
  3. Each member may submit a maximum of 2 entries per section
  4. The competition will be held in September (following the completion of the Photographer of the year contest)
  5. The club may use the photographs entered for its publicity on its website.The club will not use such images for revenue generation and copyright will remain with the photographer. If you are not happy to have your work used in this way please inform the Competition Secretary at the time of submission by e-mail at address cardiff.compsec@gmail.com

Print of the year & Digital photograph of the year sections

  1. Only photographs previously submitted for the current seasons Photographer of the year competition are eligible. That is, photographs entered into the monthly league competition held between October and June directly preceding this competition.
  2. Entries may be modified versions of those submitted for the Photographer of the year
  3. The same restrictions pertaining to the processing and provenance shall apply to photographs entered in these sections of the competition as the Photographer of the year competition.
  4. The club may use the photographs entered to represent the club in external competitions. If you are not happy to have your work used in this way please inform the Competition Secretary at the time of submission by e-mail at address cardiff.compsec@gmail.com

Creative image of the year section

  1. A photograph must be used as a starting point for your image
  2. These are no restrictions on the methods or types of processing you may apply to your photograph including, but not limited to, generative artificial intelligence (AI)
  3. The starting photograph used for your image must be taken by yourself
  4. Images must be submitted in digital form

Scoring

  1. Members attending the competition will score images
  2. Each member will award a first, second and third places to the photographs in each section
  3. Member awarded positions will be converted to points and the photograph with the highest number of points designated the winner.
  4. A photograph assigned first places with be awarded 3 points, second place 2 points and third place 1 point.
  5. If photographs are tied on points the photograph with the highest number of first places will be awarded the winner. If there is still a tie after counting the number of first places then the number of second places will be counted. If there is still a tie after counting second places then the number of third places will be used
  6. Members can not place their own photographs.

Submission

  1. Prints may be of any size up to the maximum mounting board size.
  2. All prints should be mounted on card up to 50 x 40 cm in size (but no larger than this)
  3. The photographers membership number, photograph title and display orientation indicator (if required) should be recorded on the reverse of the print mount.
  4. Competition standard digital versions of prints must also be supplied.
  5. Digital entries should be no more than 1600 pixels wide or 1200 pixels high, in JPEG format and the sRGB colour space.
  6. Digital entry file names should be structured as: Sequence Number_Title_ Member Number.jpg  The 3 parts being separated by underscores. For example “2_Landscape at Brecon_177.jpg” indicates an image titled “Landscape at Brecon” by member 177 and is the second of their entries to be displayed
  7. If the total number of entries in the competition is deemed by the Competition Secretary to be more than could be reasonably judged, he/she may reduce the entry from each member. The sequence number will be used to indicate the member’s order of preference. Photographs with a high preference number are most likely to be removed.
  8. Digital entries must be sent to the competition secretary by e-mail at address cardiff.compsec@gmail.com
  9. All entries must be with the competition secretary no later that 2 weeks prior to the competition date

Last update 27th May 2025

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