Jervis Bay and St Georges Basin, Shoalhaven, NSW


Meetings: 7:30pm
2nd and 4th Tuesdays of month
Vincentia Community Hall

Digital Competition Rules

• Digital competition nights will be held 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 past year - or within three years during the Covid pandemic.
  • 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 must follow this naming convention - "photographer's name - section initials (o for Open, ss for Set Subject) - title of image.jpg" such as in these examples -
  • 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 submitted to the print competition can be submitted in the digital competition.
• 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.

Point Scores and Awards

• 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).

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