Caveman Camera Club
Competition Rules
Revised August 22, 2010
1.
1 Competition
Calendar: Photographic
competitions will be held monthly from September through May.
Yearly awards are presented at an Annual Awards Ceremony during
June after three non-member judges selections.
Monthly competitions will not be held in June, July, or August.
2.
2 Subject Matter:
Subject matter will be the photographer’s choice between the
Open category and the Assigned Subject category.
Explicitly pornographic or libelous material will not be
accepted.
3.
3 Entries:
a.
All members may enter color prints and monochrome prints and/or
electronic images into its appropriate category.
b.
Guests may enter competition one time only before becoming a club
member.
c.
A total of two entries per month are permitted into any
combination of categories – Open or Assigned – and any combination
of prints or electronic images.
d.
Competition staff will establish which categories are to take
place at a given meeting. If
there are less than two persons with
three entries in any category, there will be no competition in that
category for that month. Monochrome
prints may be combined with color prints if there are less than 3
entries in a competition.
e.
An entry that did not win a place (1st, 2nd,
3rd place plus Honorable Mention) may be entered in any
subsequent monthly competition. Any
entry that has won a place in its respective competition is not eligible
for re-entry in a subsequent competition in any medium.
(The spirit of this rule is for a winning image to
not be shown in another competition, allowing others to have an
opportunity for winning.)
f.
Entering an image assumes giving to the Club the right to display
the image for the club’s purpose (e.g., publicity, educating,
informing in the newspaper and website).
The copyright remains the property of the entrant.
g.
All entries that have won a place, including Honorable Mention,
during a competition year are eligible for the Annual Awards Competition
at the end of that year.
4.
4 Assigned or
Open Categories:
a.
A photographer may enter an image of any subject matter
whatsoever (with exclusions of sec. 2 above) into a monthly competition.
That image may be either a print or an electronic submission.
b.
Assigned Categories will be made for each month of the club year
and presented to the membership at the end of the club year.
The Assigned subjects will be chosen with an educational purpose
in mind, encouraging the photographer to push his or her own boundaries
and try different subjects or aspects of the art and skills of
photography. The Assigned
subjects will be posted on the website and given as a handout.
5.
5 Judging:
a.
Entries will be scored by either three judges or by vote of the
members and guests present. The
three judges may vary among outside guest judges and trained member
judges. Effort will be made
to vary the guest judges as well as member judges.
Member judges must score their own entries by entering
“0." The guest
judge’s (or senior judge’s) score will be taken as that person’s
score.
b.
Critique and scoring will be based on these three photographic
elements:
1) Technical
Excellence —
Exposure, lighting, focus, depth of field, tonality or colors,
cleanliness, etc.
2) Composition
— Balanced
arrangement of elements, design, leading lines, etc.
3) Impact
— Initial
effect on the viewer, creativity, effectiveness of the image
c.
Each entry will be scored on a scale of 1 to 9 points.
The maximum total that an entry may receive is 27 points (9 per
judge). The minimum total is
3 points (1 per judge). When
the total members present are voting, the scores will be tallied by the
competition staff. Supplemental
handouts provide further clarification of the scoring.
1 point —
Unacceptable or disqualified
6 points —
Better than average
2 points —
Poor
7 points —
Good quality
3 points —
Poor, with some good qualities
8 points —
Very good quality
4 points —
Fair, below average
9 points —
Excellent, deserves an
5 points —
Average
award
d.
If a judge can’t see how an Assigned Subject image reasonably
meets the definition of the subject, it will be disqualified with a
score of 1 point.
6.
6 Places, Points,
Awards:
a.
There will be places awarded in each category, Open or Assigned,
in each monthly competition. The
number of places will be determined by dividing the number of entries in
each category by 3, rounded to the nearest whole number or at the
discretion of the judging secretary.
b.
Places and award points values:
First Place
5 points
Second Place
4 points
Third Place
3 points
Honorable Mention
2 points
c.
In case of ties, the guest or senior judge will break the tie.
d.
The photographer will get an automatic point awarded for each
category (Open or Assigned) that is entered each month.
That is one point for Open and one point for Assigned.
To further clarify, the maker is allotted 2 images total to be
judged for the evening, whether entering both in one category or
splitting between 2 categories.
e.
Points are accumulated through the year to establish Photographer
of the Year at the Annual Awards Ceremony in June.
7.
7 Color and
Monochrome Print Competition:
a.
Entries may either be printed by the entrant or be processed by a
commercial lab. Entries may
include prints from negatives, from slides, and from digital images.
The initial exposure in the camera must be made by the entrant.
Member’s own processing may be by computer and printer or
through the wet darkroom process.
b.
Prints must be mounted firmly on a backing material or a sturdy,
attractive front mounting of mat board or other acceptable material (for
example, gallery wrap). Mounting
need not be the work of the photographer.
Loose or shoddily mounted prints will be rejected.
Shrink-wrapped prints are acceptable.
c.
The smallest print size is 35 square inches (equivalent to
5" x 7" inside dimensions).
The largest print size including matting and
mounting can be no larger than 16" x 24.”
d.
Prints must be clearly identified on the back of the mount with
the title and the maker’s name. This
identification is to be in alignment with the viewing position to assure
that the print is judged in the orientation that the maker intended (top
side up).
e.
Monochrome prints means density variations of one color or tone
(e.g., black, sepia, etc). Color
prints means the use of more than one color or tone.
8.
8 Electronic
Image Competition:
a.
Images may be color or monochrome.
b.
The initial exposure in the camera must be made by the entrant.
The entry is not limited to images taken with a digital camera.
Images may also be acquired on positive or negative film,
scanned, modified (if desired), and submitted.
c.
Image file specifications:
1) Images
must be in jpg format and properly sized.
a) The
maximum pixel dimension is 1024 pixels horizontal, 768 vertical.
b) Image
file may not be larger than 350 KB.
2) Image
files must be properly named as shown here.
CAVE is the proper abbreviation for Caveman Camera Club; do not
use CCC!
FirstnameLastname_YourClubsInitials_TitleOfImage.jpg
example: JohnDoe_CAVE_PrettyFlower.jpg
example: JaneSmith_CAVE_SeaScape.jpg
d.
Entries must be submitted no later than four (4) days
prior to the competition date. Send
the image file by email attachment to the Electronic Image Coordinator.
The coordinator will assemble the entries for the competition
staff.
9.
9 Annual Awards
Competition and Awards Ceremony:
a.
It is the responsibility of the photographer to enter all place
winning (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Honorable
Mention) images in the Annual Awards Competition before the jury review
date and as directed by the competition staff.
b.
The jury shall consist of three guest judges who are not members
of the club. They will make
their selections after the completion of the final monthly competition
of the year in May.
c.
Based on the juried competition of all place winners that have
been provided by the photographers, awards in the following categories
may be presented. Awards
will be at the discretion of the Awards Committee and judges.
All awards need not be presented.
1) Electronic
Image of the Year –
with up to 5 runner-ups at the discretion of the committee
2) Print
of the Year –
with up to 5 runner-ups at the discretion of the committee
5) Photograph
of the Year at the discretion of the judges
d.
Photographer of the Year will be presented to the member who has
accumulated the most points in all categories for the club year
September through May. (See
section 6 above.)
e.
An awards ceremony will be conducted during June, the last month
of each competition year.
Revised August, 22 2010
