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Rules
- Digital competition nights will be held on the second Tuesday of every month starting in February and ending in November.
- Digital images are judged remotely, so images must be submitted via email 9 days prior to the comp night (a Sunday night at midnight).
- The deadline for submission of digital images is shown on our Program page.
- Images in the digital competition can be colour or monochrome, unless monochrome is specified.
- Digital competitions will have two sections - Set Subject and Open.
- Set Subject topics will be decided by the committee up to one year in advance.
- Set Subject images must be taken within the twelve months prior to submission.
- Open - the subject of the image can be anything at all without restriction.
- Open images must be taken within the past three years.
- Images must be in JPG format.
- Names of images should follow this naming convention - "photographer's name - section initials (o for Open, ss for Set Subject) - title of image.jpg" such as in the examples shown below ...
- joeblow-ss-holidaysnap.jpg
- joeblow-o-greatsunset.jpg
- Members can submit a maximum of 4 images with no more than 2 images per section.
- There are no size limits for digital images - the higher the resolution and the greater the number of pixels, the better.
- Images must be submitted prior to the meeting as specified in the program.
- At the meeting, images are projected, with the judge's comments and awards read out - unless the judge is present.
- Points will be awarded to each image based on the point scoring system shown below.
- An image which has received an award may not be entered into another digital competition.
- An image which has received no award on three occasions may not be entered into another digital competition.
- Each section will be judged separately, with images receiving "No Award", "Commended" or "Highly Commended".
- The image judged best of the "Highly Commended" award winners receives the "Best of Section" award.
- The Best of Section in the Set Subject section is the Image of the Month.
- AI generated photographs are not eligible for submission in BBCC competitions.
- AI editing of BBCC competition images is allowed as long as nothing from outside the image is added during the editing process.
- Generative AI tools which add new content are not acceptable in BBCC competitions and no part of the image can be created using AI software text inputs.
Point Scores and Awards
| Award | Open and Set Subject |
| No Award | 1 |
| Commended | 3 |
| Highly Commended | 5 |
| Best of Section | 7 |
- Points are accrued for all monthly competitions during the year, with an Awards Night held at our December meeting.
- The competition year starts in February and finishes in November - for a total of 10 competitions.
- Photographer of the Year is awarded to the member with the most points from their best 8 competition results during the year.
Definitions
- Set Subject images must relate closely to and clearly reflect the Set Subject, with the judge the sole arbiter.
- Open images can be absolutely anything at all.
- Monochrome is black and grey and white; sepia; or tones of any single colour plus black and grey and white.
- Creative images have been substantially manipulated using various techniques with the resulting image differing significantly from the original subject matter.
- Creative, like Monochrome, will occasionally be a Set Subject (at the discretion of the committee).
